Had a much better night last night and my tooth itself is far less painful, just a bit sore today. The infection ache seems to have travelled down my jaw and is now more tender to the touch (like a bad bruise) than a constant insanity inducing pain. I’m still keeping the painkillers topped up as it feels worse as they wear off but I feel far more like me again today.
The xray at the hospital was amazingly straightforward – I was in and out clutching my xray in about 20 minutes. It’s a full life size one so we’ve all been looking at my teeth and jaw and stuff – clearly I have no inkling of what I’m looking for on it but as the ABs are clearly kicking in I guess the next step can wait until my follow up appointment at the dentist in two weeks.
The X ray waiting room is shared with the whole X ray and radiology department so there were several pregnant women waiting for ultra sound scans. It’s where I had all of the scans for Davies including the first very scary one at 5 weeks or so pregnant the day after I’d found out I was pregnant and had gone to the doctors with bad pains and been sent straight to the hospital for an emergency scan all on my own. Also where I had the 12 and 20 week scans with Ady in tow, where you had to go with a full bladder and then sit for about an hour waiting for your turn jiggling your legs up and down because you were so desperate for a wee. So it’s where we found out we were having a boy and where we had the final very late scan to check I didn’t have placenta previa and could have a ‘normal’ delivery instead of a section. I walked down the same corridors I walked down whilst in labour and down again with a newborn baby the following day. Don’t have your babies in hospitals kids – it makes you far too sentimental about them when they are at risk of closure! 😉
Nic, you could get sentimental about an old binbag!
Glad to hear you’re feelng much better 🙂
Comment by Alison — 02 November 2006 @ 4:34 pm