How much oil would a gumboil boil if a gumboil could boil oil?!! Jaime thought I'd be too embarrassed to put this on the blog... but, no, not me! This is how disfigured I looked a couple of weeks ago when what I thought was a toothache turned out to be an infected root that quickly turned into a gumboil! This has never happened to me before and looking like the elephant woman for two whole days was not a pleasant experience, I can tell you! Plus it was excrutiatingly painful!!! We were just coming to the end of our holiday in Bilbao at the time and I thought the toothache would subside and that I could hold out till our return to Barcelona to visit my own dentist. I was wrong. I ended up having an emergency consultation over the phone and taking a week-course of antibiotics to get rid of the thing! Now I just have the root canal procedure to look forward to! So learn this lesson: never ignore a toothache! Go straight to your dentist! Or you could end up looking like this...!