Sacrament Meeting!

I really wish I would have taken some pictures, but I guess I had too much going on to think about it at the time.

Anyway, Nana actually made it to Sacrament Meeting on Sunday!! She heard that the Primary was doing their Sacrament Meeting Program and she wanted to go. She's been talking about trying for several weeks, but every Sunday morning she would decide not this week. When she heard the Primary was doing their program a couple of weeks ago, she decided that would be the week. It took her two weeks to gear up!! Then during the week, she started to get a cold, stuffy nose, sore throat. I thought for sure she wouldn't make it. (Believe it or not, Nana has a little bit fo a stubborn streak.) She made up her mind she was going, and nothing was going to stop her!!!

I laid out her stuff before I left for Relief Society and told her to be ready when I came back for her. She was ready and we walked out to the car. We got a spot right in front of the doors and she walked in very slowly. She had several people very surprised and very pleased to see her. She enjoyed the program and then came home. It took a lot out of her, who would have thought just walking in and sitting for an hour and a half, then walking back to the car would wear someone out, but it did! She walked in the door and immediately put her jammies back on and climbed right back into bed!!

What a day!!

If things keep going the way they are, she just might make it once a month, maybe? It could happen!!

Feeling Pretty Good!!

Just an update to let you know that things have really improved since those teeth came out!!

It has truly been amazing to realize how much trouble a couple of teeth can cause. From the first day they came out, things started getting better. It only took a couple of days for her to feel like trying to eat. It's taking a little getting used to, with only two bicuspids on the bottom jaw, but as usual, she is making out pretty good.

She is still sleeping quite a bit, but when she's awake she's doing and feeling pretty good!! Except for the cold. With the turn in the weather, we've had to turn on the heater and break out some more blankets!!

Dentist Update...Part 2

The rest of her week seemed to go pretty good. The Amoxicillin was doing it's job and controlling the infection. She was fairly comfortable, for the most part, as long as she didn't try to eat on that one side. This morning we went back to see which teeth were giving her trouble. And wouldn't you know it...It was both of them.

So out they came. She sure was a trooper!! She was so nervous, but knew there was no way around it, and the only way to get all the way better was to get rid of the troubled teeth. Dr. Menlove did a great job and was kind and gentle. After they were out, he had to scrape out more of the infection. He said there was still a lot of infection in there. He got out what he could, and the rest would be up to her body to take care of. Since her kidneys weren't working all that well it could take some time. I have to flush the holes for at least a good two weeks to keep the infection from flaring up again.

She is resting now, back on the big pain killers, but that's to be expected with two teeth extractions.

Hair Cut!

Saturday, on top of everything else, we finally got a hair cut!!

Do you think it was about time???

I was so nervous, because I had to take off so much more than I was leaving on her head.

It was quite a bit of work, but I think we finally got it right. She does like it quite short.

No more Troll looking Mohawks!!

Improving!

Just a quick note, we are definitely improving!!

The Amoxicillin is doing it's job, the swelling is mostly gone. We are off the hallucinogen drugs. She's achy, but that won't clear up until the dead tooth/teeth are out and her mouth is healed.

Things are looking up!! At least until Monday!!

Dentist Update

We had a horrible weekend! By the time Monday morning rolled around, Her pain was managable with the Oxycodone Hydrochloride but her whole left side was puffy, swollen and red. She could feel the swelling all the way to her ear and up to her eye. She kept asking me to check to see if there was something in her eye.

Yesterday morning, I called the dentist back and said you need to fit her in and figure this out. It is just too coincidental, it has got to be related to what we came in for on the 17th.

We got there at about 10am. We had to see the new dentist, Dr. Benjamin Menlove, because Dr. Elmer only works on Wednesdays now. Mom seems to like him so we're sticking with Dr. Ben. Anyway, They tried to do another xray but couldn't, she was too swollen and sore. Dr. Ben said it wouldn't be any different from a week ago anyway. They couldn't see anything in the xray so he had no way to know which tooth it was. It can be one or both of two. The tooth (or teeth) have died and are rotting in the jaw and causing infection.

Anyway, he really couldn't do anything any way until we got the infection under control. Even more so since she has the stint. I guess bacteria can collect around the stint and cause problems. So we really are in a catch 22. We have to treat the infection which will weaken the kidneys even more, but we can't not treat the infection because of pain and risk to her heart in essence. So she is taking amoxicillin for the infection and then we go back to the dentist to pull one or two teeth on monday. We're hoping we can better tell which one when the infection is more localized and not spreading.

She was already acting better last night, painwise, anyway. We could manage the pain with out giving her the pain meds every hour. It was lasting longer and doing a better job. The redness in the swelling was more crimson instead of bright red. I expect her to feel even better this morning. (She's not up yet)

She is starting to experience hallucinations, but we were told to expect that when we started to give this med to her. I just hope we can start to ween her off as the infection subsides.

That's the scoop for now, I'll post more as I know more.

Not Doing Well, This Weekend!! :(

We are not having a good weekend. Poor thing is having a temendous amount of pain in her jaw and gums. I'm afraid she just might lose the rest of her bottom teeth at this rate. :(

I've tried all sorts of things.

We've resorted to drugs to keep her as comfortable as possible just to get her through the weekend until we can go back to the dentist on Monday. She's on some pretty potent, powerful stuff. We have to be careful that the hallucinations don't come back, but what else can we do???

More details and info when I know more on Monday.

Love to you all!!