Thank you so much-I will, do all that you say. The pain is steadily getting better, that's actually why the swelling freaked me out. I will up my water intake!

Yeah, I'm hoping to start a new job so I really didn't have much choice on the timing. But just think, I'm now "caught up" on the emergencies, so after this I can focus on what to do to address all my root canals. I'm toying with the idea of a quadrant at a time to address them all, but haven't decided how to proceed. The good news is that my oral surgeon seems to understand and dislike root canals as well. I only have 13 root canals left to address.....