Toothache and #savedavina

The annoying thing about toothache is that it hurts!

I'd had a mild toothache yesterday evening so took some panadol and it did the trick for a while. When it got to bed time it was getting a bit worse so I tried a bit of bonjella and off I went to sleep. At around 4am I woke up to severe pain, the kind that makes you all irritable and wish you were somewhere else. Got up to try and sort it out....

Turned on computer and searched for home remedies and there were allsorts of things to try. First one I chose was to chew a whole clove of garlic! For a minute or two the pain went (I think) but it could just have been the overwhelming smell and taste hiding it from me!

The pain came back shortly afterwards so back I went to search for a new idea. The next one was to rub salt in the area of the problem. TIP - before you do this, have a glass of luke warm water handy - it's going to sting like crazy! It works for a bit longer than the garlic idea though, just rinse and gargle after a minute.

I'm still up as I can't go back to sleep, so I'm rubbing salt in every 15 mins at the moment either until I get so tired I can go back to sleep or day breaks and I can call the dentist.

There was another home remedy website that went along the lines of:

Got toothache? (me - 'yes')
Does it hurt? ('yes')
Can you get to a dentist? ('no')
Do you need to alleviate the pain? ('what do you think?')
Here's some people's testimonials on how our trick worked for them....(who cares, give it to me!)
Did we ask you if it hurt? (yes, and it bloody does!!!)
Do you need to sort it now? (um, let me think...)
Here's a few more testimonials, just in case you were wondering if it worked.....(I believe you!)
Are you ready to take the pain away? ('yes')
Here's a clue - you probably already use it in cooking! (garlic? salt? already tried them, what else?)
Anyway, for just $29.99 you can access this tried and tested method. (you're having a laugh!!!)
Pay here and we guarantee the pain will go. (no thanks, nice way to make a mint though, well done)

So I didn't find out what it was, although I guess it was either garlic or salt, or lime or raw onion like the other free sites suggested...cheeky tw@ts!

#savedavina

Whilst I've been suffering, Davina McCall @thisisdavina has been enduring the worst night of her recent life, stuck in snow blizzards for HOURS. Hundreds of wellwishers from Twitter have been praying for her to get home safely and soon so she can cuddle up to Matthew and get warm, what a pain that must be. Jokes came flooding in to try and raise spirits, most of them corny and rubbish but at least people (me included) were trying!

It's 5.43am and the latest tweet was:

ThisisDavina

Having a welcome coffee wee break at bp garage.....matthew going to try and rescue us again from a different direction!!!!

Hope it gets sorted soon, here's what she's been going through:

Snow

Hey - I just realised! Whilst I have been writing this insomniacal tripe the pain has stopped! Cheers Davina, cheers crappy toothache website - you've both taken my mind off the shooting pain! :)

It appears that Twitter is also down. The web interface is not working whatever that means!