Monday, August 15, 2011

My Week In Review

Well, the only four words I can actually think of to describe last week would be….

A. PIECE. OF. POOP.

Okay, where shall I start?

First, my new blog template is doing weird things by making the white background disappear. And I’m so frustrated about this I could scream because I can’t figure out how to correct it. I am inches away from reverting back to my old template.

Then….

And allow me forewarn you, that what I’m going to be sharing next will be GROSS and ICKY stuff, so if you think that will bother you then you better stop reading right here.

Two Fridays ago, I began getting a very familiar feeling in my mouth, which told me I was developing a TOOTH ABSCESS.

This was not the same abscess I developed and took care of last year, but another one located on the opposite side of my mouth under an old bridge.

And of course it happened late Friday, so I couldn’t see my dentist until this past Monday to get penicillin, therefore I took care of it myself by using peroxide to help keep the infection to a minimum. Thank god I was not in any pain, but I began to feel very tired - almost like getting the flu.

Monday morning I didn’t even make an appointment, I just walked to my dentists’ office and asked if he could see me. And being the WONDERFUL man that he is, he came right out into the waiting room and looked at me. He was very busy with two other patients, but wrote me a prescription for penicillin and then made an appointment to see him the following Monday (today), so he could determined what was going on under my bridge after the infection was cleared up.

I already know that I need to have this bridge taken out and have implants done, but I don’t have dental insurance, so I’ve been putting it off until I decide to put it on my credit card.

Anyway, when I got home I immediately started taking the penicillin and thought it would clear up the abscess in a day or two. WRONG.

It actually got worse. MUCH worse.

By the second day, the lower right hand side of my mouth was so swollen, it looked like I had someones FIST in my mouth.

Yet I was not in any pain, nor running a fever.

I didn’t want to call my dentist and tell him, because I knew he would just tell me to go see the oral surgeon who drained the abscess I had over a year ago and was NOT about to let that horrible man touch me again, so I just used copious amounts of warm salt water to draw it out, allowing it to drain on its on. I was on a very strong penicillin, therefore I knew it would work in preventing the infection from entering the rest of my body.

I was also doing Reflexology on myself every hour on the hour to help my body bring the abscess to a head naturally.

Yeah, I know what you’re all thinking, “Whaaaat? Are you CRAZY?”

No, I’m not crazy, I just know my body well enough to realize how it can heal itself naturally, along with using traditional medicine.

And as you will soon read, it worked.

By Thursday morning, between the penicillin and what I was doing naturally, it was obviously doing the trick because the abscess was coming to a head; getting bigger and bigger.

And if you can believe this, I was still not experiencing pain. Just pressure.

Late Thursday evening at about 10:00, I could tell the abscess was getting ready to burst because I began to feel pain - A LOT. But I’ve been through this before, therefore was use to it. I just took some Advil and kept rinsing my mouth with warm salt water every half hour.

Then at about 11:45, just as I was getting ready to publish last Fridays’ post….it happened.

KA-POW! The abscess erupted!

I ran to the bathroom and began rinsing my mouth with massive amounts of MORE warm salt water.

OMG….you should have seen the stuff that drained out of that abscess.

It kinda looked like what Linda Blair threw up in the movie The Exorcist.

But I rinsed and rinsed for over an hour, until there was nothing left to rinse.

And it was amazing how wonderful I felt after this retched abscess was drained. I felt like a completely different person.

For the rest of the week, I continued to take the penicillin and rinsing my mouth with salt water every hour to dry it out.

Yesterday, I looked inside my mouth and saw that it had completely healed.

ALLELUIA!

Today, I go see my dentist at 3:00, when he can take x-rays and then make a decision on what needs to be done with this bridge so I don’t EVER get another one of these abscesses again.

I’m at that age where the crown and bridge work I’ve had in my mouth for eons needs to be replaced.

It’s odd, because I very rarely incur illness except for teeth issues every so often. Other than that, I’m pretty healthy.

So, there you have it, folks….my week in review.

And can I just tell you? It was lovely……