Keep the chin up.
July 14, 2009I feel blessed. In this economy, my dear Sultry Husband has a job that he loves. We have a one year old beautiful baby who desires my attention. I have older children who smile and hug me. My two dogs want to play with me, snuggle with me, just be near me. I have a youth symphony that is thriving, even during the summer months when I am the only director and kids are often gone. We are surviving. My complaints right now are all small in comparison to my blessings. I am writing this post to remind me that things are oh so good. A “count your many blessings” moment, you know the saying- if you go looking for your blessings, you will not be able to number them all? I am doing that.
So, when I think about my dental experience lately, I can still keep my chin up. Last Thursday, as I was eating breakfast, I broke my very back molar. It didn’t really hurt at that moment, but I didn’t want it to get worse, so I called my dentist. He had an opening right then, so I ran up there. He said it looked like an old filling had cracked. It would need to be replaced, but it shouldn’t be any kind of big deal.
As he drilled it out, I heard him utter “oh”. Not something you want to hear from your dentist! As it turns out, the crack must have happened quite some time ago because there was much decay underneath it. He went deeper, then decided it was time to make me more numb…. this process repeated itself four times. Four shots to make my mouth more and more dead. I ended up with a full on root canal, but with the added bonus that there was such a raging infection in there that he couldn’t even finish it! I have been referred to a specialist who can’t see me till this Thursday. Much pain going on here. Grumble… must. keep. chin. up.
In the process of making me feel no pain, my dentist (who I quite like), hit a nerve in the side of my mouth that caused my Tongue to go numb… it is still numb… he says that the condition could last a week, two weeks, or even two months. In the mean time, I can’t taste anything in half of my mouth. A very frustrating status, yet I can function, I can walk, I am fine. I am healthy. I even laughed when my dentist told me why the feeling didn’t come back into my mouth.
I will continue to count my blessings. I will, I will, I will! Things are good.
All 5 of us are going to the dentist next week. Pray for us. hahaha The twinners have never been before, Jaedin went once 2 years ago. And its been a looooong time for Nathan and I. Nothing hurts in anyone’s mouths…but i’m worried anyway!
That’s CRAZY about your tongue being numb!!! Do you accidentally bite it cuz you can’t feel it? When I got my wisdom teeth taken out in HS, it took forever and I was starving after the appt so my mom took me to some fast food place while my face was still numb and I took a big bite of hamburger…that turned out to be my cheek. once the pain meds wore off…oh man. it was bad. The inside of my cheek still has the mark from it!
And Nathan was helping me carve a pinewood derby car like 2 years ago and missed the car and carved his hand. He’s still regaining feeling in one of his fingers. I’m glad your mouth is just temporary!
Oh no! This too shall pass. (But it’s a little hard when you don’t know when, isn’t it?)
WOW. if it’s any consolation, i have a “crown” coming up next thursday. whoo …
i’m sorry your tongue is numb, but it really is a great opportunity to take stock of that for which you have to be thankful. way to be positive!
This sounds like the story of my #30 molar and the Summer of ‘99. (this is so the things B movies are made out of!!
It took the dentist all summer, and that was ALL summer of going every week, to get it finished. And even then he did it wrong and I had to have it redone a few years later. I can say the entodontist is the only way to go with root canals, the only way to go. I hope your tooth turns out well. 
Wow. All I can say is wow. Hope the feeling has returned by now.