These couple weeks my routine life is ruptured by my teeth issues. I have a long history of dental problems and normally was taking care of my biannual preventive check up religiously so I can avoid any major damage to my poor teeth.
However last year I didn’t keep up my promise to myself. At that time I was pregnant with Kiki, I was advised to do some dental work for some cavities. But I really didn’t like to sit in the dental chair for a long time so I wanted to delay a bit. And then I had the health issue with DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), I didn’t have any attention that could be divided to my teeth.
So a couple weeks ago when I went to the dentist, the cavities on the molar and the pre-molar were very big. She tried to save them and see whether it is ok to do only fillings with crowns. It went ok at first but then after the second time taking the impressions (the first one didn’t go well), my teeth started throbbing pain at night. I wasn’t able to sleep at all! Then next day when I went in, she did clean up first. And then that night we had to do an emergency root canal on the pre-molar. Then I was prescribed antibiotics in order to calm down the inflammations. I was a bit hesitant and didn’t take the first night as I wanted to see whether the body can heal it so I can continue breastfeeding. However, after another sleepless night I caved in. Even after taking the antibiotics, the pain resumed. So after the dentist came back from her mission in Mexico, I immediately went to see her and had to get the molar done as both of them were diagnosed irreversible pulpits. It took almost 2 weeks for that area finally calm down.
And in these 2 weeks, the following damages were done:
No daily routines at all (no morning, no evening)
No exercise
No blogs
A wonderful get together of KK and his school mate on Sunday as I had to go to see Dr. Yang due to severe headache (which is caused by the toothache)
Not able to drop off KK as the sleepless night make me very drowsy in the morning.
Well, the only bright side is that I continue learning Spanish through Memrise. Also I got the tooth powder recipe from Dr. Yang, which I am setting up as a project to try to see whether it helps with my teeth in 3 months.
