Monday, January 3, 2011

Matt's tooth infection



On Fri. Matt was complaining that his tooth was hurting him, but he didn't do anything about it. On Sat. it was still hurting him and his cheek was starting to swell a tiny bit on the left side. Mind you he didn't get a lot of sleep Fri. night. Then yesterday it was still hurting him and he was swelling up more.
Well by this morning he was so swollen he could barely open up his eye. So he called his dentist and they got him in today at 2:30. I didn't give him much sympathy last night when he was keeping me awake with his moaning and moving around on the bed. In fact I got mad at him because he could have asked for a blessing yesterday from his grandpa and uncle, but he didn't. When I asked him why he didn't get a blessing he said it slipped his mind. I lost it then. I said "Matt, how could it have slipped your mind when you were in so much pain?" then he made a joke. I don't even remember what the joke was.
Anyway, we were at the Dentists office for 1 1/2 hours. He ended up having an infection in his bicuspit tooth. That is the tooth next to your fang tooth on the upper left side of his mouth, and the same tooth on the right side is getting bad as well. The dentist drilled up into his tooth and all of a sudden a bunch of fluid and puss came running out. He also drilled and filled a tooth on the other side of his mouth where the filling had fallen out. Mind you, that because of the infection he couldn't be given anything for the pain when the dentist was drilling away.
Matt, had a fever while there in the office and the assistant got him a wet towel to put on his forehead and in five minutes it was dry.
Now he is on ammoxicillin, and loratabs until he can get the swelling down enough that the dentist can do a root canal on both bicusbits. Now I kind of feel bad for getting mad at him last night, but not too bad.

2 comments:

garysharon said...

That's too bad about Matt's teeth and I hope he gets feeling better soon. I'm glad he didn't wait any longer thatn he did. Mom & Dad

Powell Family said...

Man, that sucks! This story almost reminds me of dad not going to the doctor for his shortness of breath and mom scolding him about it!