From Pain & Rain To Health & Sunshine

I've been a little MIA from life in general AND MIA from our blog over this last week! BUT I'M BACK, AND SO GLAD! It started as a sharp ear pain on my flight back home 2 weeks ago. I grabbed my ear as the flight was taking off and my husband said "Are you ok!"? I remember thinking..."I think I blew an ear drum". The pain subsided after a few minutes. Pheww....I thought that was it! ... Thennnnn I'm in the grocery store parking lot last week & I grab the side of my face from a sudden intense pain that lasted for about 5 minutes of never ending pressure! Ugh! If you know me I will avoid drugs & doctors at any & all costs...but this pain caught my attention. First an ear drum, then this? I call my sister and she says "CALL YOUR DENTIST"! So I do & my dentist and her staff get me in right away! I tell them about the ear bursting and now this whole side of my face is starting to ache. I go there, get some xrays & am sent off with directions that if it gets any worse....go see an endodontist right away. Well fast forward to this Monday and it got wayyyy worse. The dull ache was now full force. The pain is in my face, my teeth and spreading across the roof of my mouth. I head to the endodontist all ready for what everyone is banking on to ease this pain...a root canal....I have the cozy heated blanket over me and I-am-ready-to-go. I've never been more excited for a root canal in my life... Untilllllll this amazing group of staff are standing over me saying ...."You need to go to an oral surgeon asap as after just now viewing a 3D view of what's going on inside your mouth, ...this is untreatable. You have to get to an oral surgeon to have your tooth extracted because the last person that did your root canal had 2 of their metal tools break off and they are wedged in your canal and badly infected." Ok...(insert my inside voice that was screaming ...yes please, I want to get off this train now.) By now the pain is BEYOND what I can live with ... (this was on Monday and Tuesday of this week)...and this girl who stays clear of drugs is now practically begging the pharmacist to spoon feed me my prescribed Oxycodone. I'm telling you....there is mild pain and then there is raging pain...I had hit the mother lode. 4 oxycodone later and these drugs aren't touching the pain, and I am on a wait list until June 21st as all oral surgeons are booked that I called...I started to bawl. I can't work, I can't think straight, I can't sleep, I can't eat food, I can't do anything but pace this floor and pray for this wretched pain to subside. Then...last ditch effort I call my dentist and THIS is when you realize the effect of how 1 person, just 1 person effects the life of another SO MUCH. In secondssss after my call to my dentist, this staff is calling around all over the KC area to get me in somewhere asap! This was yesterday at 12ish. They called 15 places and found one that was willing to take me this morning at 7 30am. Ok so all this to say....my god, the health of our bodies, the health of our minds, and now the health of our teeth....count your blessings if you are not writhing in pain or count your blessings if you have people in your life that will bend over backwards to ease it if you are! The ride over to the surgeon this morning I'm not going to lie... I wanted to tear my hair out from this undying pain...my husband and I didn't say one word on the way over, I think he was pretty certain I could split and cry a river so he handed me his pinky...that means 'we've got this'...you're going under in 30 minutes....♡...so I pinkyed him back. ♡ Next thing I know I'm layed back on the table and the doctor says ...."are you nervous" and all I remember is the needle going in my arm....and my body got warm all over from the anesthesia....and I said "Ahhh this feels sooooo good!" Fast forward and they are sitting me up telling me it's time to go home. I drove home THE MOST grateful girl for so much: my husband, my sister who's been bringing liquid food, the surgeon who took me at the last minute this morning, and my dentist office, Dr. Kelly Thomas. No words can explain how much I appreciate what you did for me! I may be sore but I'll take this feeling any day! HEALTH IS EVERYTHINGGGGG!

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