Day by day my head swelled until the antibiotics took effect a few days ago, but the swelling never did go away. Pain. Pain. Pain. All I could do was sleep in some sort of stupor. Finally last night arrived. Get into chair. Wait 10 minutes. They stuck that little balm that makes the needle less painful. Wait 10 more minutes. Little balm has stopped working. Jam 4 needles into my mouth - omg - I was practically crying. Wait 40 minutes, freezing starting to abate. Dentist arrives, checks freezing, not much left. Another needle or two.
Finally in surgery chair. Pull. Pain. More pulling. More pain. Another needle. More pulling. Another needle. More pain and it was out. Now for all the scraping and jabbing. I was seriously crying. Not much freezing left in most of my mouth. Then the torture really started - stitches…
I fully expected to open my eyes to see Audrey standing in the corner.
On a bright note, Spike is feeling a bit better and the vet said he could have a bit of pain killer to tide him to Thursday. Adia has been good, setting down in the house, and crazy dog outside. She’s a 0 to 60 kind of dog.
I fed Adia just the puppy food for a few days and the diarrhea went away… so yesterday I introduced some hotdog treats. Not so fast… diarrhea was back. I’ll try the liver treats tomorrow or maybe stick with hotdogs for a few days. It will be an adjustment to not be able to throw any kind of food at her without upset. The old dogs could eat anything. How do I toughen her up?
Carm has been spending blocks of time at the hospital with his mom.
The weather has been good but I’ve been too out of it to enjoy even a bit of deck time. Looks like the weather is changing this afternoon.
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
~Sylvia Plath
1 comment:
Wow, that sounds awful! I have had only one bad experince with an impacted wisdom tooth. What happened to painless dentistry?
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