I just want to clear up a something. I love shuffling my kids backand forth to their activities. I think of it as a pleasure because it is what they love. In the world of over scheduling, I think that my kids have picked activities that suit them and that they really enjoy. My children aren't running to three activities for each on the same day, it is three separate activities, one for each child. There you go.
Now for the title of this bolg. PAIN. As I said, I had a dentist appointment on Wednesday morning. I was scheduled for root canal in two teeth. No big deal, did it before. RIGHT?
Nope. nope nope...THe actual procedure was not the problem, it was the aftermath. I have never ever, and I have had three C-Sections, experienced so much pain in my entire life! It was so horrible that I had the dentist call in pain medication! I never ask for pain meds, ever!
Wednesday night was full of jaw chattering pain. I took the pain meds and would sleep for twenty minutes, then three and a half hours of pain would follow. (the meds were to be taken every 4-6 hours) I was sweating profusely, and crying and moaning all night. I couldn't believe that this was happening to me, it never ever did before! Finally, yesterday afternoon, while I was laying down, I called the dentist to tell her what the heck was going on. She called in an antibiotic and asked that I come in to her office. That was no simple task, Scott had to go to work at his night job, the boys each had baseball, and Cassidy needed to be taken care of. SO we started getting coverage for the kids.
It turned out to be another pain filled experience in the dental chair, in spite of the fact that I had so much novacaine in my mouth. The dentist kept adding and adding it to the proceedure. What she believes happened is that I had a small miniscule piece of bacteria left in the canal, of one of the teeth, and it became really infected when she filled the tooth. It was so painful when she was cleaning it out that I was levitating out of the chair. She kept shooting me with novacaine, and appologising. I felt the tears rolling down my face, uncontrollable, I really didn't want her to feel bad, I just couldn't help my self. But, alas, all turned out well. I am better now, on an antibiotic and am just tired.
My wish for everyone is to never ever ever experience that kind of pain!
Make it a great weekend, I know I will!
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OMG Miki! I dread dentists' visits and now you tell me this!! The first time I had a root canal the dentist hit a nerve and it brought instant tears to my eyes, it hurt so badly. Ever since then I have never been able to quite relax in the dentist chair! A toothache is an awful thing to have. I'm so glad you are feeling better now. Get some rest!!!
Sorry I've been away. Just posted my week of HELL last week. I have been where you were. First, all but 2 of my teeth have been pulled. One month before I had braces put in, I had 8 (yes eight) teeth pulled. Besides my wisdom teeth, I have 4 fewer secondary teeth in my mouth (see 8 teeth removed comment). Before my wisdom teeth came out, I was in college and had an infection, during finals week. Needless to say, I got incompletes untill after the next term started to re-do finals. Then, in 2004, I had an issue with an employer that caused me so much stress to cause me to abscess my front tooth (from too much grinding of my teeth) that I had to have a root canal on my front tooth. So, been there, done that, and got 560 t-shirts of proof.
But, I'm so glad you're feeling better again. Did Cassidy want to take care of you because you were "sick"?
I've always wanted to be you...right up until I read this. I'm glad you're better.
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