Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it all, right away, every time. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water.
[Annie Dillard]

What the person whose jaw is x-rayed below has in common with me: a molar with four nerve canals. Apparently molars usually have three, but my endodontist found out Wednesday that one of mine has four.

I am a little sad to think that my poor little molar has had its nerves all drilled out and the spaces filled with rubber. But when I think of what those nerves were doing to my head before they got removed, I get less sad.

In memoriam, The Nerves of Tooth # 14.

 

root canal image