By Wendell Steavenson
It all began with an ordinary cavity. I ignored the intermittent ache too long and ended up needing a root canal. I got drilled, de-nerved and capped in Kyiv in November 2022. Between visits to the clinic, I reported on the liberation of Kherson. The Russians retreated across the Dnipro river but continued to shell the city. The thud of artillery made my fragile, temporary crown shudder. Some weeks later, after the restoration had been completed and I had left Ukraine, I felt a prickling soreness in my gum above the desensitised molar.
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