Well…damn, this is weird…after all of the cutting and scraping and grinding on my teeth yesterday, my mouth barely hurts at all today…just some stiffness in the jaw hinge but that is about it…and the bleeding has completely stopped so I guess I’m on the way to healing…if it continues to feel like this, I won’t even need to take anything for it today…fingers crossed…I am still removing the protective cement they put in to keep the cold and heat from hurting but most of it is out and the rest of it will eventually fall out….it still does hurt a bit when I put pressure  on it biting down but I can live with that….so, it looks like I can start to get back to normal today….still feel cold today, though, so I have the heating pad in my lap just to try to get warm and I’m not sure what that is about…probably should take it easy today but I need to get two rides in anyway so I may take the afternoon off and watch some soccer…I was so worn out last night that I slept through til 6:23 this morning but I’m still pretty tired and it will take a while to get moving….I was planning on today being a recovery day so I’ll have to see if the mouth continues to improve before I decide what to do ….more later…