I’m home.
I will live… I do not have cancer.
ok… main things out of the way.
A bit of history
2 yrs ago I broke off a back tooth eating a jawbreaker…( no lectures please…been there done that, have the t shirt and wore the shirt out)
I went to the dentist… He lectured, lol, and asked if I wanted to spend $2,000 for a cap… or just pull it, and smooth it…
Since it was a jaw tooth I said… pull it, smooth it…and let’s go, it being the very very back tooth… not to worried about it.
*18 months later.
I’m tired, running low grade fevor… infection showing up in blood.
Start of tests… antibiotics…
No improvemnt.
Gradually getting tired… headaches… chills… etc.
more tests
Lisless… hard to sleep, achey, just no energy.
geting worse.
more tests…
Infection getting more stubborn… Face swells, saliva duct glad gets clogged…
meds… pain pills…etc.
Upper & lower gi… no sign of infection
did a total mri Friday…
nothing
Then… upon review, a student ( repeat for emphasis) STUDENT, nurse… not even a student DR! reviewed the MRI…
She saw a lump in my upper jaw. Feeling unimtimadated… ( her father is a general… go figure) She went to the Main DR!
He ignored… or tried to. She refused to leave his office till He looked at what she wanted him to see. She drug him to the MRI viewing place… ( I’m not doubting an arm hold here)
Pointed out the lump.
He looked… then relooked… then blew it up… ( the xray not me)
guess what!
The (&(^& dentist left 2 pieces of root from that tooth in me! It is soo infected… they can’t remove it untill I undergo IV antibiotics!
They do it Friday… Saturday am they will surgically remove the pieces of root that the dentist “missed”.
Yes I am glad it isn’t real serious. But don’t even ask how ticked off I am at that dentist. That isn’t all… He had his license revoked 1 yr ago. He left the state… so… I can’t even find him to sue! He had 25 complaints filed against him. He declared bankruptcy…
OK… I know I’ll be ok… it will take time to heal… soft foods for awhile… (great excuse for a malt)
But I want that dentist… or man… just 5 minutes w/ a baseball bat in a locked room…
I’m sorry, just had to vent. I have to stay at the clinic to take the IV, then the surgery early Sat. (5:00 am) (Dr.s have golf tournament… seriously… ) but that means I can be home before noon.
I want to humbly thank all of you who have stepped up and ran with this project. It means so much to me.
Thank you for all your thoughts, prayers, kindness, concern, etc.
Words can’t express how lucky I feel having friends as you…
Big Bear Hugs… *Really really tight
I’m back on pain meds… so feeling kinda good. I work wed & thur…
should be back at work Monday.
The stitches will dislove, and I have follow up next Thursday.
Thanks again soo much…


