Day Three Post Surgery

When they tell you Day Three Post Surgery will be worse than what you went through before now, they are not kidding. Swelling got worse today as did the pain. Coming off a night when the pain pills took till three in the morning to kick in and then gave me horrible and very weird dreams, today has been rough. I am warned that tomorrow could be as bad or worse.

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Saturday Afternoon Update

I am doing okay. Pain, so far, has been minimal and the bleeding finally stopped mid afternoon yesterday. I was able to eat some applesauce for dinner, ice cream late last night, and had some scrambled eggs for breakfast. So, I am doing okay.

Thank you all for your thoughts, prayers, and messages here and in emails to me. I am not up to being online very long so replies will be slow. But, please know everything is much appreciated.

I Am Alive

All six bad teeth are out. I am told it went very well and everybody involved is very pleased. I slept through it. I am heavily medicated. Still numb in my lower jaw, chin, and lower lip which makes trying to drink water and take pills an interesting and messy experience.

I am told the next few days will be worse pain wise and I am not looking forward to that.

Just wanted to let one and all know I survived and hope to be online a little more tomorrow. I have a ton of email and messages on FB and whatnot so I know folks were letting me know they care. I do appreciate it and will work on reply, as I can over the weekend.

Thanks again, everyone.

Dental Surgery Day

By the time this post appears, I should be at least part of the way through a procedure to remove six teeth. I am losing all four wisdom teeth, each of which is apparently fractured and a mess, and two more broken teeth that I knew were broken. Both broke long ago, at different times, while Sandi was in her battle and my focus was on taking care of her.

This mess in my mouth played a role of some type in my recent hospital stay. So, it absolutely has to done. I don't have a choice. But, I hate it. Nervous wreck over it as my phobia about needles, dentists, and all the rest of it is in full bloom. I am more than a bit freaked out. I am very aware that things can and do go wrong on occasion even with things that should and usually do go okay.

Fingers crossed and all that.

Dental Update

Back home and exhausted Back is really bad now. Got really close to falling and scaring everyone, but the wall stopped me from going all the way down and I did NOT dent the wall. lol In dentist news.....there is NO cancer. They see what worried me and why.... and it is multiple infection sites. Four teeth have to come out for sure, and maybe two more. The four are broken --two wisdom and two regular-- and are massive infection areas as is two gum boils and a couple of other areas. He is pretty sure that this was part of the reason why I wound up in the hospital and is concerned that things could be making the cardiac deal worse. He is sending me to an oral surgeon who will work with my PCP and the cardiologist to figure out what sedation would work for me and how to go about getting the bad teeth and infected areas out. Then, about a month after the sugery happens, I will have to start doing teeth cleaning in the main dentist office. I am in for along haul,. but he kept stressing that considering how long it has been for me with dental care, things are better than he expected. All the other teeth--at this point--are okay and should be fine once the gum disease situation is stopped.