The cellulitis infection that I’ve been… dealing with is almost completely gone, so there’s that.

The remnants of it that are still in my mouth do randomly hurt, which lidocaine and Orajel has been fixing.

The only downside has been the fact that I’ve been prescribed lidocaine gel for the infection that’s supposed to last me five days, but I can only call in refills that are on the prescription every ten days, like make that make sense. That means that I’ve gone five days without having lidocaine, mostly relying on the Orajel that I have. I’m still not quite sure why that is, although even getting my insurance to approve lidocaine gel was a Herculean task given their recent refusals to approve anything related to lidocaine at all. So there is that…