I'm just home from swimming at a lake with Christine- about half an hour from where we live. Getting a shower when I got home was so refreshing! No way was I going to sleep with dried lake covering me!

I will call the dentist tomorrow but I don't know that they'll do much for me without it costing me $2,000 (which I don't have).

I feel good physically tonight (except my tooth) but mentally I feel upset because I don't think I can bear getting my tooth fixed. But I can't go around with a huge gap in my smile- can I? What if the rest breaks off somehow? What if I bite something hard again? I've got my bite splint in for bruxism and it feels good to have my broken tooth surrounded by the moulded soft plastic. Mentally, I feel down because I can't afford to fix my teeth and this tooth originally broke in 1983 just about this time of year, too. However, I will sleep well tonight after getting a couple hours of outdoor sunshine and some exercise swimming.

I think I'll read my book for a bit and then go to sleep.