My Tooth

Four years ago I had to have a root canal, the tooth had been bugging me for about 2 years at that point. I had deceided to do something about it, well the root canal didn't go to well. It was a large molar in the back, and he had to keep numbing me because I could feel it. Third time was the charm and he was able to finish and put a temporary filling in it. I had to keep going back because it just wasn't right, it kept on hurting. It was a dead tooth that still hurt...why? He said I needed to wait atleast 3 months to get a cap put on, because it needed to settle down. OK. After a while it stopped hurting, but kept being annoying because food kept getting stuck between it and the next tooth. I carry dental floss with me every where I go. About ten days ago, I ate a Skittle, yes a Skittle (1), being diabetic I'm not suppose to eat any. Anyway I ate it and it hurt my tooth a little, but I went on with my day. The next morning my tooth hurt a little when I was eating my oatmeal but I was OK. By the time school got out it was starting to irreitate me, but only when I was eating. So I called my dentist, they couldn't get me in until the 28th of Jan. That would be 3 weeks away, but I took the appointment hoping I would be OK until then. At this point it was 4pm on Friday night. That night was OK, I was being careful about what I ate and how I chewed. I turned into a pumpkin at about 10pm and went to bed, at 1am I woke up in pain, and it kept getting werse as the night went, so I hit the over the counter pain meds, that worked it in begining. By Sat. afternoon I was in serious pain, and my face was starting to swell, and over the counter meds weren't helping at all anymore. I had some better stuff from previous back injury so I started to take those, eating only when I had to so the meds wouldn't upset my stomach. I tried cold packs, hot packs, laying on one side then the other, nothing was helping and the pain was getting werse. By Sunday morning I was beside myself in pain, I hadn't slept at all, and all I could do was cry. I tried to call my dentist emergency number but got no answer at 8am, again at 10am. At that point I couldn't take it anymore so I called a friend I go to church with, she works in a dentist office (not my dentist though). Oh, by the way the right side of my face was swollen pretty good at this point. My friend P heard me out and felt I needed to be seen right away, turns out her son just gratuated dental school and opened his office just down the road from me. She called him, he was in church, but she hunted him down and they met me at his office within 20 mins. Why didn't I call sooner. Luckly T's brother spent the night that night and was here to babysit the kids for us, and T took the day off work to watch a football game, so he could take me. So I'm at the dentist and he took x-rays and discovered that my tooth was cracked, and the crack went all the way up above my gums, and the tooth was abbessed (infected). There was no saving the tooth because it had already been root canaled. By this time I just wanted to damn thing out, it hurt so bad and had been hurting for 6 years. It took an hour and a half to get the tooth out, and oh my gosh... good news I didn't have to get any stitches:) Well that was 8 days ago, the whole the tooth left is huge, and it still hurts. That is the moral of this story, it still hurts. I had to take two days off work, and have taken every pain pill they gave me, and it still hurts. It's the tooth that is haunting me from the grave. I am so tired of soft foods, jello, pudding, mashed potatoes, yogurt and applesauce, I need to branch out. Well I'm feeling a little under the weather today, because my tooth, are rather lack of tooth hurts.

There isn't school today because of Martin Luther King Jr. day, my kids are driving me crazy...MOM, Mom, mom, Mom, MOM... I just want to take a nap. e has a voice like her aunt L, it is very loud and carries well, she just can't seem to be quiet. Since T works at night he sleeps during the day, but not when she's around. All I have said all day is shhhhhhhh!!! I would take them to a park or something but it's 20 degrees outside.

Well I've whinned enough for now... blog ya later.