Tortured tooth update!

Well I started taking the antibiotics yesterday and today it is a bit better :-)

Tortured tooth update!

Well we made it through the night together, without me wanting to yank it from my sore jaw!

It's certainly tender, but then so is the whole area after all those injections. It's no worse and I have not had to take painkillers yet, I am just aware it's there all the time.

So as the weekend is looming, I have requested a prescription for antibiotics as a safety measure, but as it is now I think it might be settling down thank goodness.

I appreciate all the good vibes and sympathy.....

Why did I open my big mouth....

....before I went to the dentist and mention the word 'torture'!

Because it was torture....first of all when she first gave me the numbing shot my heart took off like 'it' was in an F1 race. I kid you not for a horrible moment I thought 'OMG we are in serious trouble here', maybe the Dr was too hasty to say I was now ok for the standard injection. When I was on beta blocker last year (early in my Graves days) it was banned as it does accelerate your heart rate.

So I lay there, heart pounding away in my ears, shaky hands and thighs....my Dentist noticed the deathly silence as I battled with my inner OUTRIGHT PANIC demons and said ' Are you okay?'

I was mantra-ing in my head....'the Dr said it was ok, he's a great Dr, you're okay, calm down'....and then as if it never happened it just stopped and my pulse slowed.

But it took 4 more tubes of the stuff over the next hour to numb that tooth enough to complete the crown prep! I was numb from my chin to my eye in the end!!

Anyhooo we got her done, this is a back tooth that is cracked and so they are crowning it to stabilise it and save it hopefully. But it's not been root treated, as I have a bad history of failed root treatments that end up in extractions. So tonight it was a pretty tender, I took a painkiller and am now praying hard it will settle down....as I can't afford another $800 on root treatment on top of the $1,400 I am already shelling out!

So keep everything crossed I don't wake up in pain tomorrow please.....

Appointment for torture today!

Yep I am off to the dentist at 1pm, the first of a few scheduled appointments and something I don't think many of us enjoy.

It doesn't help me that the first job I had in life was as a Dental Surgery Assistant and so I understand all the terminology when I am lying there prone! I have been bad since I got here and avoided the dentist, apart from 2 emergency extractions, due to the scary costs.

But after falling flat on my face last month I had to go in and she found other work, so I was cornered and had to arrange to get it all done. So I now have a crown, 3 fillings and a clean ahead, plus a very large bill!

Even my dentist commented that the USA has not been a good experience for my teeth thus far! After all I have lost on average 1 per year since I got here and the jury is still out on the tooth I banged when I fell.

So I have been listening to my own 'see the dentist regularly preaching' and will bite the bullet and get my mouth in order......never something you can call fun though!

A week of highs & lows!

Well it's been an interesting week - full of highs and 'literal' lows!

Last Monday I was trying to get my little kitty inside and managed to trip, falling flat on my face on our concrete patio. Not good, very painful and possibly very costly longterm - I hit my front crowned tooth as I fell and there is some question as to whether I split the root and will need a $4,000 implant. In the meantime it's antibiotics and alot of praying I didn't, because I'd rather have some new windows this year than a new tooth! I also managed to badly bruise my knee and crack a bone in my toe.....I always was clumsy!

My thoughts were also back home in the UK alot with my family. Both my gran & my aunt have been seriously ill & hospitalised during the past month. My gran is now home and doing well, but my aunt after 3 surgeries faces more to come and is still very sick. At times like this it is very hard being so far from those you care about and not being able to help.

Then as the week progressed things improved. Firstly I emailed friends about starting a local book club and received enough replies to go ahead. I already belong to a couple of online book groups and would love to participate in a face to face club, I hope to get it going at the start of March.

The second high of the week was both myself and my WW buddy, Michelle, hitting a big Weightwatchers target. It has taken us a few months and we have both been frustrated at times, but finally we made it together. We have shipped each other rewards as an extra incentive to keep going all the way.....we have faith by the end of this year our husbands will be married to supermodels, without a costly divorce....LOL!

I have managed to read 2 books this week, both in the Mitford series, which I am still loving after 6 books in a month!

But then of course life has to bring you back down to earth and so I caught a head cold. So today I have stayed in my PJ's all day long and sneezed my way through Sunday as hubby nurses me.

Hopefully this week will just be your average kind of week and a bit more peaceful!