It was still dark at ten to eight, made a pot of coffee, visited the bathroom and then drank the contents of the coffee pot. Two cups of Aldi's mild, that was enough to get the machinery working, the body is booted. Go upstairs and have a shower. Downstairs again, do the Wordle puzzle in the New York times. The solution was not too difficult at all. Read the news, read about all the insane killings in the world. They are not going to solve any problems, people will still find ways to buy drugs despite a few boats being sunk. Religions will not go away just because there is a threat. There is no point.
At a quarter to ten go to the doctors practice. It is a pleasant walk on a cold dry day. At the practice, say hello at the desk and then go to the waiting room, and after a very short wait a young woman with a mask leads the way to the operating room. A few short instructions, then lie down and wait for the doctor. He explains what he is going to do, in no time at all three injections are made. Ten minutes later he returns, explains his procedure and commences work. The crown is removed, the tooth is divided into three parts and each root is extracted one by one. There are few sharp cracking noises, that is all.
Afterwards, there are five parts on the table, the three parts of the root, the crown and a nasty looking blob, a cyst which had destroyed the bone in that part of the jaw. The doctor spends a short time explaining and then hurries off to the next patient.
Walk back home, with a piece of wadding in the space where the tooth used to be. The morning is still cold. dry and bright.
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