I've spent the whole morning on the phone trying to find a dentist who can see me today. Apparently there is a huge problem with one of my upper molars, nothing you can see with your eye, but I have an abscess which is a sign that something is terribly wrong in toothville. If you don't know what an abscess is, trust me when I say stay misinformed. It's disgusting and painful and if I describe to you what happened when I pushed on the swollen lump of my gum this morning, you will shudder and put your clasped hands to you mouth and bite your knuckles while waving your other hand frantically for me to stop speaking. I'll just leave it to your imagination. It was pretty gross.
So I have an appointment scheduled for Thursday morning with my dentist. I can have an earlier appointment with a scary, unknown dentist of sketchy origin if I like, but I prefer waiting for Caroline-- blond, perky and petite with a lovely smile, than risking the likes of Jean-Claude who probably has his office in a musty smelling, dank back bedroom of a house where he lives with his mother and a ratty looking terrier. I've been to enough Jean-Claude types in the past in France and I'm very happy with Caroline and more than willing to suffer the time it takes to wait for her.
Meanwhile I hope the infection doesn't spread to my other organs. I'm really looking forward to my weekend away and I don't want to spend Easter Sunday hooked up to a machine which drains fluid from my brain into a bucket under the bed while everyone else is enjoying their dinner.
7 comments:
I hope that the office will call and tell you they have an opening before Thursday!
Good luck!
Ugh! abcesses (abci?) really suck. I've had my fair share of them so I feel your pain. I can also understand your need to wait it out for your Caroline...nothing worse than a hack in your mouth. Hang in there pookie.
Your description is hilarious, and unfortuneatly true when it comes to some of the seedy dentist or Drs. offices I've seen...hope you're feeling better, because there is some good food to be eaten this weekend in france...
Oh man, I had one once and it was the most painful thing ever - I couldn't even sleep at night, it hurt that bad. When Fab had one last year, his dentist couldn't fit him in for a few days, but he still gave him a prescription for painkillers and antibiotics right away...maybe you could ask yours to do the same?
Thanks Sam I did what you said and the dentist assistant told me to come by for a prescription for antibiotics and pain killers. I don't want to ever have another night like last night...just awful!
Oh, cool, glad that worked. And I hope the pills kick in fast!!
I hope you last! I just had my jaw worked on and was in pain for a week and totally didn't even want to touch my tooth brush. Luckily, I'm back to normal and hope oyu are too (soon)!
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