I wasn't even thinking about it being Saint Patricks day until I was looking for something to wear to the dentist office and then realized it needed to be green!
Ever since my last visit to the dentist I have felt as though something wasn't right with the healing process. My gums feel lumpy and sore and even though I can't see the spot where it hurts, I mentally pictured it as being exactly like when Haley broke his collar bone- which was a sharp piece of broken bone poking against the skin with such force that it is a wonder it didn't split open. Yep.. that's how my mouth felt, but on a smaller scale than the collar bone incident.
Yesterday I called the dentist and he actually called me back so I could explain my situation with great detail and accuracy which enabled him to fit me in today to have a look at the problem.
About one minute into the visit he hit the sore spot with that pricker thing they use and after my flinching stopped I got a double whammy of lidocaine. A lot more pricking went on, but then I didn't care. It turned out that I did indeed have a bone fragment trying to protrude through my gums and that has been what's irritating me, well, irritating my mouth.
So I sat there while he sliced up my gums, tried to scrape out the offending bone chip but it would not budge. He said that many times just tearing up the skin as much as he did will make a some scar tissue that will cover up the sharp bone so that its not an irritant, but if that doesn't happen in a week or so to come back and he will shoot me up again, slice open the whole gum and then get in there, file down the bone and stitch it back together. I reminded him that I needed my mouth to be intact for the severe gluttony I have scheduled when I go to Disney and he attempted to assure me that I would be fine in 17 days.
As for right this minute, the lidocaine is wearing off and I am going to need something to make my mouth stop throbbing in pain. Since I spent all of my daily allowance on gas to get to the dentist I won't be able to numb myself with green beer so I am very glad that I did not take all of my Tylenol 3 after my first appointment concerning this tooth.
Luckily I had nothing to do today but housework and go to the dump and I am happy to put both of those things off and go back to bed and maybe miss most of this jagged, cut up gum skin as it attempts to form it's scar over my protruding jaw bone fragment.
Good-night.
Jaye,I just finished a successful surgery on my foot,and extracted a wooden match size splinter{im saving it in a vial,cause like the sprouted burdock seed in my eye,I KNOW that noone will believe this}from the joint of my big toe..Im here till monday if you need any "off the grid"medical procedures.Im thinking,emery boards,and maybe a pumice stone..
ReplyDeleteI was thinking more along the lines of the PediPaws that Reb got me for Christmas eons ago. At least it is not manual.
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