Gooble Gooble

Okay so here is how my lovely holiday played out. Monday/Tuesday - had two really horrible days at work, very high stressed....had been clenching my teeth really bad. Gums were sore. Needed to work Tuesday night, but Gordy was loosing a tooth and she just wasn't being a good puppy. Guessing because she was so uncomfortable so I got nothing done. Wednesday took off from work. Jim and I were suppose to go to So. Md no later than noon. He went into work and wasn't sure when he was going to be home. He is now under mandatory weekends for work up through X-mas. I went shopping with Becky in the morning. Gums were really hurting. Tooth starts spasming. Pain was so bad that at points I couldn't function. Get home and every time a spasm hit it is crippling. My sinus cavity and ear canal also inflamed. In tears. Call the dentist who is conveniently closed for the holidays. Called the emergency line and got Dr. Farahi's home number!!! He prescribed an antibiotic and for me to take some high doses of advil and to see him first thing monday morning for a root canal. Okay so let's take a step back for a second. He told me in September that I needed one, but I was doing okay....that is eating on the left side of my mouth only and really having no pain. SO I figured since we had blown through our flex spending for the year that I was going to do the root canal first thing in Jan given that I was making out okay for the time being. Okay fast forward back to Wednesday. Dr calls in my prescription to CVS McLean at 1pm. Gordy gets an eye infection. Jim meets me at the vet at 3:30 so that I can pass off Gordy to him to so I can get my prescription. Go to CVS. Pure madness. As of 4pm they still hadn't listened to my Dr's message for the prescription. The pain was so bad that I'm crying in CVS. They tell me 20 minute wait. After 30 minutes I go back to the counter and they get my insurance info and tell me that i have to wait another 10 minutes for the pharmacist to check the tech's work on my insurance info???? Wait another 40 minutes for them to figure it out and finally get the prescription. Get home, load up car and Jim drives us to So. MD. Cry all the way down. I was in such pain when the spasm would hit that I would be crippled. Nothing made it feel better.

Turkey day - spasm slight better and can't really chew on anything hard. Find that Champagne makes the pain go away. Drink alot of Champagne. Turkey day night....champagne wears off and I'm back into the crippling crying stage. Friday, exhausted. Pain alittle better. Jim wants to do things together and I send him off with my brother in law to be entertained while I veg on the couch.

So here we are on Sunday having to work all day and not able to do any cleaning at the house and awaitng for my root canal. Can't tell you that I thought I would ever be so excited for a root canal....but I am.