or some form of it.
I just got back from the dentist and although I heard what I wanted to hear I am more upset now than I was.
I wanted to hear yes you have this.... and you will have it for this... long and this... is what we can do for it.
Well when our dentist who is almost a hundred, has pictures of him cleaning his kids teeth when they were two, and now they have children who are older than two, looked in my mouth and said with a shocked tone, "girl you really got IT"then said"what IT is I don't know" then studied his book for a half an hour I knew I was in trouble. I don't have hand and mouth disease but it is something similar. I don't have sores on my hands, yet anyway, so they can't say it is that. However, it is a VIRAL infection so it is contagious and the antibiotics that the doctor gave me probably won't do anything since they are for bacteria.
The dentist's wife, who is a dental assistant and does our cleanings, came in because she has had Hand and Mouth Disease and she made it even worse (that is why we call her the drill sergeant), she said I should expect this much pain for at least another week to ten days. They called in a prescription for a Viral Antibiotic some Vicodin and a Lydocane rinse the later for pain. To top it off when I went to pick them up they weren't ready (the doctor didn't give the pharmacy the time to pick up) so Jim has to pick them up.
She did make me feel a little bit better because she said when she got it, she would be ok all day but around 4 pm she would just "dissolve", I call it breakdown. By breakdown I mean like a 16 year old girl or a postpartum mom, uncontrolable crying. She thought because of the contstant pain and dicomfort and I think so too.
Anyway, I am not sure how I will feel after I get the right medicine but hopefully better. As always, this is not a good time for me to be sick and I especially can't stay away from my kids.
That is why I am writing, there were several of you that wanted me to call but not only does it hurt to talk but I can't even hold a conversation. So I am going to get into my PJ's and pray Jim can leave the kids at my dad's for a while and just lay down and woller in my pain for tonight.
For those of you who are shocked by my recent display of feeling sorry for myself I am sorry I sincerely hope that I will be back to my normal self soon.
5 comments:
I'm glad you have some sort of an answer. I hope you feel better soon!!!!
I hope that all gets better. Take care
Lindsay...please stop trying to be perfect all the time...you only have to be perfect about 90 per cent of the time to be better natured than about 100 per cent of the people.
Allow yourself to Wallow without apology...in your position...can you imagine what most of our husbands would act like?
As I said on the phone, I am so sorry to hear you are in pain, and no mama wants her child to be in pain...no matter how old they are.
I am amazed you are doing as well as you are...and guess what!? Bawling it all out does relieve a lot of tension and stress...so let it roll and strangely enough...it works.
Sometimes I regret I trained you all to be so stoic and stiff upper lipped about a lot of things (like pain)...cause we all seem to feel 'guilty' about complaining or needing help or a hug or sharing disappointment...
...and wasn't it you the other day who said Will reminded you of that knight in that Monty Python movie...his leg gets cut off and he is hopping around on one leg saying, "I'm OK, I'm all right, I'm all right."
You don't have to be that guy, OK?
Now I am trying to make you smile...O Vey...just shoot me.
Thanks for letting us know how you are. That really sucks. I hope your dentist helps take care of the problem asap.
thanks for the zippy tip! It worked like a charm!
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