Toothache, my eye

So I've had a painful tooth (a molar) for the past three days, and I went to my dentist today. It was the same tooth that I chipped recently (actually I chipped the crown), but it ended up that my self-diagnosis was a bit off. The good news is that it wasn't an infected tooth, which was the self-diagnosis. It was an inflamed gum. The cause wasn't evident. Perhaps something had gotten lodged in a gap and then disappeared. Whatever it was/is, I'm feeling pretty wiped out and have taken some ibuprofen and slept a lot. Amazing how much these little problems in the mouth can take it out of me! With any luck, I'm now on the mend. Not sure yet whether I'll feel up to going to the Clarion West party tonight, which had been my intention.