Last week and this week are as usual busy...I had the Dentist appt. yesterday.. Dr. Rosler tomorrow and the PA on Friday.It seems never ending. And with the back pain slowly creeping back up on me, it seems the worst is yet to come.
Last Month I had about the 10th epidural shot in my back to kill some pesky nerves.. The bad thing about nerves? Yea, they grow back. In the past I have gone a solid 3 Months in a row pain free from the epidural shot. That was over 2 years ago. Since then the epi's have only lasted max a few weeks. This last time seemed to do the trick.. Until I tried to go to sleep Sunday night and last night. I get super restless laying in bed. Then the back pain started in. The annoying, pain in my back came back.. Like it was saying "Hello, don't forget about me". So I go in for my post-epi visit with Dr. Rosler tomorrow. He's going to ask me if I have any pain and once again I have to bare bad news. Yes, I have had a LOT less "pain" days but, no the pain is still lurking. I guess I should be positive and look at it from the view that at least it's lessen and not the same as previous.
Last night was fun with Sunni. We said a prayer and before bed she reminded me that we needed to say another one. Last night she fell asleep in record time. Which makes me know the prayer put her mind at ease and she went to sleep sound and content. Sunni is my special angel. Sent for not only her learning but, to teach me as well. When I think nothing in this world is going right all I have to do is look at Sunni and know that she is everything I love about this world. Her, Michael and Joey and Eric are my world.
So enough ranting.. I just got scared half to death from Molli the Chi barking all of a sudden. Holy Cow! Back to tending to my little ray of sunshine..
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Missing Teeth and New Promises
I'm going to try again... Life wouldn't be worth living if we didn't try...
Went back to the Dentist today to check on my stitches.. He gave me an A+! (I'll spare you the pictures) Still a little sore on the right. But, pain that I thought would never go away has all but almost faded. I also got a news flash from said Dentist.. I have a really high tolerance for pain medication. He said they he couldn't even get me out of the first stages of anesthesia. After dose after dose of medication into my i.v. the Dentist just decided to make me as comfortable as possible.. So out comes the reason why I woke up in the middle.. I didn't really "just" wake up. I was actually awake the WHOLE time!! In the middle the medication wore off and I had to be dosed again and again to get me to the stage of being "comfortable" again.. The dentist told me today that he wouldn't want to get into a tequila shot contest with me... Good thing I don't drink...
Eric and I decided to make some new promises to each other today and also to Sunni. Here are some...
*Save More
*Enrich Sunni's life with the Gospel
*Pray often
*Work smarter not harder
and...
*Work towards the things we want in life and not away..
Went back to the Dentist today to check on my stitches.. He gave me an A+! (I'll spare you the pictures) Still a little sore on the right. But, pain that I thought would never go away has all but almost faded. I also got a news flash from said Dentist.. I have a really high tolerance for pain medication. He said they he couldn't even get me out of the first stages of anesthesia. After dose after dose of medication into my i.v. the Dentist just decided to make me as comfortable as possible.. So out comes the reason why I woke up in the middle.. I didn't really "just" wake up. I was actually awake the WHOLE time!! In the middle the medication wore off and I had to be dosed again and again to get me to the stage of being "comfortable" again.. The dentist told me today that he wouldn't want to get into a tequila shot contest with me... Good thing I don't drink...
Eric and I decided to make some new promises to each other today and also to Sunni. Here are some...
*Save More
*Enrich Sunni's life with the Gospel
*Pray often
*Work smarter not harder
and...
*Work towards the things we want in life and not away..
Friday, May 14, 2010
05/10/2010- Molar Extractions
I just wanted to write a little bit about my trip to the dentist. So I will in the future NEVER forget the pain that I am in right this moment.
The first week of May my back teeth started to bother me a little bit. When I brushed I noticed my back bottom teeth (more specifically #18 and #31) were really sensitive to the toothpaste I was using. Being the explorer I am, I took a gander back there. Noticed a small hole in #31 and a huge hole in #18 that wasn't bothering me as much as the first one. It was more an irritation then a pain. Told Eric but...(maybe my worst mistake) even though we have dental insurance I still wanted to wait. Because Eric (my husband) works for CCSD and stops working June 4th. So I know we need to save all the money we can for the couple of Months he's off for work. I decided to not worry about my tooth and just make sure I keep any food out of there and brush. A LOT more.
A few days later Sunni had a bowling Birthday party to go to on Nellis Airforce Base. So we ran some errands that day and since I didn't get the boys until later after the B-Day party. We decided to eat at In-n-Out. Now I haven't been there in quite sometime. And I was really kinda thrilled to be eating there. We got our food and sat down. Only 40min. Until we needed to be at the gate of NAFB for the party. Plenty of time.. I take my first bite.. Then go to take my second. As I do so Eric asks.."So, Hows that tooth?" Just then my tooth must have heard him. I got THE biggest SHOCK in my jaw and got teary eyed. Told Eric I couldn't eat anymore. He knew what happened.
It only felt like a few minutes passed but, it was time for us to head to the B-Day party. So we bagged up my food (hoping I could eat later when my tooth quit wigging out.) And went to the party.
The party was cute and Sunni was the only girl from school there. She had a ton of fun. I on the other hand could not stop thinking about that pain. What if it came back? What if it didn't stop? I HAVE to go to a dentist now..Dangit!!
We left the party. It was a hit. Sunni's friend loved his gift and i got a bite of a cupcake. So all was good..Or so I thought.
After that food problem.... It was all up-hill. I could hardly eat anything. I went to the dentist that next week. Bad news all around. Almost all the molars I had metal bands on for my braces. (which was back in my Junior and Senior year of high school) had almost all but rotted two of my molars. #31 and #18.. along with that I need a root canal on the #30, 19 and a molar on my upper right jaw.. UGHHH..
A little back story... When I had braces it was all my Mom. I had no choice in the matter of what the dentist was going to do to my teeth. I had two eye teeth pulled on numbing meds only. From the braces and that point on I hated the dentist. In 2005 after my back surgery I had a big problem with my wisdom teeth trying to come in. Luckily I only had 3 but one of the 3 was coming in sideways. Again, I thought I would be a big girl and only try a CD player and sedative pill just to calm my nerves. I heard EVERYTHING over the CD player... And the sedative didn't really work because of all the pain medication I was on after the back surgery. Yet another painful experience.
So, you can see my worry when the doc tells me I need two teeth pulled and 3 crowns cut off, the "pulp" scraped out, and a fake tooth put on top times three.. (To put it simply).
So I told the dentist I was nervous. I had to much done already to scare me to death. He had another dentist look at my back molars and told him to refer me to an Oral Surgeon. My biggest concern? What or how was I going to eat until I went to the Oral Surgeon?? This was Wednesday. I made the referral appt. with the Oral Surgeon for Friday. Hoping I would get it all done.. While also hoping I could be knocked out (General Anesthesia).
When into the very nice office of the Oral Surgeon to only find out the infection is so bad I do infact need General Anesthesia.. (Yay!) The bad news is.. I couldn't eat anything for 8 hours prior and wait until Monday to have it done.. (What??) So I went home.. Still taking the penicillin the prior dentist gave me... And having SHOOTING elecritic shocks in my jaw the WHOLE weekend. Crying, praying on my knees kinda pain.. Hoping it will all soon be over.. Hoping Monday would come quick.. It didn't. The weekend unlike anyother went by soooo slow. Sunni was bummed to see me in so much pain. Michael and Joey didn't understand it. And Eric being the rock that he is, just stroked me hair and told me to "calm down, it'll be over soon".
Finally Monday morning! I got up brushed what I could of my teeth and then with Eric driving headed to the OS in Summerlin. After paying the copay of the insurance (which to my surprise was only $94.00. Eric was lead to a waiting room and I was lead to the operating room. They gave me an i.v. and put a little mask thingy over my nose and I was out..
All good right?? Yeah RIGHT!
Mid-tooth pulling my body decides to WAKE ME UP! I felt it all. The sounds, the twisting the pulling the PAIN.. I start yelling.. "Ow, Ow, OWWW" the doctor tells the nurse, "I think she needs more" then as quick as that I am back out again. Only to wake with a mega ton of gause in my mouth, a sore jaw, major swelling and asking to move into a wheelchair..
Eric brought me home and I started crying.. "I felt it" I cried.. I explained what I remembered. He said the nurse told him. And it's due to the pain medication I am on for my back. It makes me "have a high tolorence" for any medication that puts you to sleep. So good for me.. Ugh.
Today is Friday.. So it's been 4 and a half days of jaw soreness, pain, and feeling like someone punched me on both sides of my face. I read online somewhere that it takes 2 weeks for the gum to heal and about a Month to 3 for the bone/jaw to heal. I am so over this pain. I ran out of my pain medication yesterday and it has made me hate everything.. I hate people eating good food that I can't...around me.. I hate laying there with my jaw throbbing.. I hate trying to fall asleep.. I hate it all. The only good thing that came out of this is that I got 95% of my laundry done, folded and put away. Only because I wanted to do something to take my mind off the pain I was in. I will feel like I got a lot more out of this once my gums and jaw heal. No more "shocking pain" that's good. But, now I am going to be super dooper scared to get the root canals done.. I fear the worst.. I always will..
The first week of May my back teeth started to bother me a little bit. When I brushed I noticed my back bottom teeth (more specifically #18 and #31) were really sensitive to the toothpaste I was using. Being the explorer I am, I took a gander back there. Noticed a small hole in #31 and a huge hole in #18 that wasn't bothering me as much as the first one. It was more an irritation then a pain. Told Eric but...(maybe my worst mistake) even though we have dental insurance I still wanted to wait. Because Eric (my husband) works for CCSD and stops working June 4th. So I know we need to save all the money we can for the couple of Months he's off for work. I decided to not worry about my tooth and just make sure I keep any food out of there and brush. A LOT more.
A few days later Sunni had a bowling Birthday party to go to on Nellis Airforce Base. So we ran some errands that day and since I didn't get the boys until later after the B-Day party. We decided to eat at In-n-Out. Now I haven't been there in quite sometime. And I was really kinda thrilled to be eating there. We got our food and sat down. Only 40min. Until we needed to be at the gate of NAFB for the party. Plenty of time.. I take my first bite.. Then go to take my second. As I do so Eric asks.."So, Hows that tooth?" Just then my tooth must have heard him. I got THE biggest SHOCK in my jaw and got teary eyed. Told Eric I couldn't eat anymore. He knew what happened.
It only felt like a few minutes passed but, it was time for us to head to the B-Day party. So we bagged up my food (hoping I could eat later when my tooth quit wigging out.) And went to the party.
The party was cute and Sunni was the only girl from school there. She had a ton of fun. I on the other hand could not stop thinking about that pain. What if it came back? What if it didn't stop? I HAVE to go to a dentist now..Dangit!!
We left the party. It was a hit. Sunni's friend loved his gift and i got a bite of a cupcake. So all was good..Or so I thought.
After that food problem.... It was all up-hill. I could hardly eat anything. I went to the dentist that next week. Bad news all around. Almost all the molars I had metal bands on for my braces. (which was back in my Junior and Senior year of high school) had almost all but rotted two of my molars. #31 and #18.. along with that I need a root canal on the #30, 19 and a molar on my upper right jaw.. UGHHH..
A little back story... When I had braces it was all my Mom. I had no choice in the matter of what the dentist was going to do to my teeth. I had two eye teeth pulled on numbing meds only. From the braces and that point on I hated the dentist. In 2005 after my back surgery I had a big problem with my wisdom teeth trying to come in. Luckily I only had 3 but one of the 3 was coming in sideways. Again, I thought I would be a big girl and only try a CD player and sedative pill just to calm my nerves. I heard EVERYTHING over the CD player... And the sedative didn't really work because of all the pain medication I was on after the back surgery. Yet another painful experience.
So, you can see my worry when the doc tells me I need two teeth pulled and 3 crowns cut off, the "pulp" scraped out, and a fake tooth put on top times three.. (To put it simply).
So I told the dentist I was nervous. I had to much done already to scare me to death. He had another dentist look at my back molars and told him to refer me to an Oral Surgeon. My biggest concern? What or how was I going to eat until I went to the Oral Surgeon?? This was Wednesday. I made the referral appt. with the Oral Surgeon for Friday. Hoping I would get it all done.. While also hoping I could be knocked out (General Anesthesia).
When into the very nice office of the Oral Surgeon to only find out the infection is so bad I do infact need General Anesthesia.. (Yay!) The bad news is.. I couldn't eat anything for 8 hours prior and wait until Monday to have it done.. (What??) So I went home.. Still taking the penicillin the prior dentist gave me... And having SHOOTING elecritic shocks in my jaw the WHOLE weekend. Crying, praying on my knees kinda pain.. Hoping it will all soon be over.. Hoping Monday would come quick.. It didn't. The weekend unlike anyother went by soooo slow. Sunni was bummed to see me in so much pain. Michael and Joey didn't understand it. And Eric being the rock that he is, just stroked me hair and told me to "calm down, it'll be over soon".
Finally Monday morning! I got up brushed what I could of my teeth and then with Eric driving headed to the OS in Summerlin. After paying the copay of the insurance (which to my surprise was only $94.00. Eric was lead to a waiting room and I was lead to the operating room. They gave me an i.v. and put a little mask thingy over my nose and I was out..
All good right?? Yeah RIGHT!
Mid-tooth pulling my body decides to WAKE ME UP! I felt it all. The sounds, the twisting the pulling the PAIN.. I start yelling.. "Ow, Ow, OWWW" the doctor tells the nurse, "I think she needs more" then as quick as that I am back out again. Only to wake with a mega ton of gause in my mouth, a sore jaw, major swelling and asking to move into a wheelchair..
Eric brought me home and I started crying.. "I felt it" I cried.. I explained what I remembered. He said the nurse told him. And it's due to the pain medication I am on for my back. It makes me "have a high tolorence" for any medication that puts you to sleep. So good for me.. Ugh.
Today is Friday.. So it's been 4 and a half days of jaw soreness, pain, and feeling like someone punched me on both sides of my face. I read online somewhere that it takes 2 weeks for the gum to heal and about a Month to 3 for the bone/jaw to heal. I am so over this pain. I ran out of my pain medication yesterday and it has made me hate everything.. I hate people eating good food that I can't...around me.. I hate laying there with my jaw throbbing.. I hate trying to fall asleep.. I hate it all. The only good thing that came out of this is that I got 95% of my laundry done, folded and put away. Only because I wanted to do something to take my mind off the pain I was in. I will feel like I got a lot more out of this once my gums and jaw heal. No more "shocking pain" that's good. But, now I am going to be super dooper scared to get the root canals done.. I fear the worst.. I always will..
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