After accidentally biting my lip during a meal (since when does that not happen with me?), of all the times for it to do so the wound literally cracked and became infected with what I can only imagine is otherwise ubiquitous bacteria in my mouth. Two of three doctor’s visits out of the way getting and keeping my care team involved with this, I’ve been put on antibiotics that are surprisingly not making me as nauseated as I thought they would, and I’ve been issued some pain medication to take to ride out the worst part of this healing. Although the infection certainly seems to be responding to the antibiotics, the pain is absolutely something else… even breakthrough pain, like when I rouse from a nap or sleep. Ihe liquid lidocaine that I’m supposed to swish in my mouth as needed has been an absolute godsend. I didn’t expect it to work so well.