Monday Morning Coffee

Good morning....or is it?

If you follow me on facebook, or on here, you know my weekend has not been the best of weekends.

I had a tooth pulled last Monday & by Friday I had developed a dry socket.  My dentist closes early on Friday and I was crazy, busy at school & didn't get a chance to call him until I got home from school.

He was babysitting his granddaughter & she was napping.  He really wanted to help me but he didn't want to wake her, didn't know when his daughter was picking her up & if he could drop her off early and then asked if I was sure it was a dry socket because most patients call in tears?  He again apologized, but wasn't able to help me at that time, maybe later that night or Saturday morning......I told him not to worry about it, I was calling a friend of mine & Dream Boy who is a dentist.

Said friend met me in his office within 20 minutes.  Dr. Mark cleaned it out & packed it up, sent me on my way with a stronger antibiotic.  Saturday morning the packing came out & the pain intensified, so he met me 20 minutes later.  Once again, he cleaned it & this time watched the socket fill with blood.  He decided not to pack it, but let it clot naturally.  Within 2 hours I had formed a clot.....only to have it disappear within 2 more hours.

I managed the pain better on Sunday, but Dr. Mark called me Sunday night & referred me to an oral surgeon for hopefully today.  I have to call their office & see when I can get in.

Dream Boy has been the BEST husband/nurse/caretaker ever.  He did the grocery shopping on Friday night.  Saturday night he fixed me cheese ravioli for dinner because it was soft.  Sunday he just plain loved me & told me over & over how sorry he was for the pain I was in

I am deeply blessed by this man of mine.

So I called into school last night to take a sick day so I am available to get into whichever oral surgeon can see me first.

Saturday was a warm day again - mid 40s, but by nightfall the gale force winds picked up & brought in the arctic air.  We woke up to 17 degrees on Sunday with a huge threat of lake affect snow warnings for Sunday night and all day today....

The rest of this week is supposed to be in the teens and below.  Brrrrr - haven't had this weather in SO long I've almost forgotten that this is what winter is supposed to be this way.

With the winds Saturday night we woke up on Sunday morning to this:

A tree finally fell over.  It's been creaking a lot for several years now & Dream Boy has just been trying to figure out how to cut it down with it being right at the edge of the hill.  See where the tree is laying at the top of the hill?  Right above it, on the edge of the hill you can see the trunk left from where the tree snapped.  Thankfully it didn't do any damage other than taking a limb off of a Maple on it's way.  

More firewood for us though & with the temps this week, we are most certainly burning in our wood stove.

Well, I need to get on the phone with an oral surgeon and get an appointment made.

Not sure what they're going to do, but anything has to be better than what I've been dealing with, right?

It can only go up from here!!!

Toodles y'all - I'll update you when I'm able!
**update**
Sorry for all the previous whining - I called the oral surgeon who in turn called my actual dentist & made an appointment with him for me.  I was not a happy camper, but went begrudgingly to the appointment.
My dentist packed it with this awful tasting & smelling paste that has numbed the area somewhat & is sealing it off.  He said that it was healing nicely & he could see how the gum was already starting to close.
My pain level is back to almost zero - thank you God!  Seriously, I couldn't handle it anymore.
One more thing, we are finally getting snow here!  So excited!  What is normally a 25 minutes drive for me took 45 minutes this morning due to the bad roads, how heavy the snow is falling & the white out conditions along the way.
While sitting at a stop light I grabbed my camera & took this shot through my dirty windshield----this one's for your Deanna...