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Well, the vanilla stopped working. I woke up Tuesday morning around 3 in throbbing pain. All of my teeth, top and bottom on the right side were killing me. I could understand the bottom teeth hurting since the bad tooth is on the bottom, but I don't understand why the top ones have to hurt. I drowned it in vanilla (which didn't work), and put a hot washcloth on it. It must have worked, because I was able to go back to sleep. My appointment was at 11, so I was extremely nervous. I HATE going to the dentist. I was scheduled to have my teeth cleaned and to check the tooth out to see what needed to be done. The girl looked at my tooth and said I don't really see anything wrong with it, and your teeth look really good considering you haven't had them cleaned since 2002. I know, I know I should have gone, but as I said earlier, I hate going to the dentist. She did an x-ray and found the problem. The tooth has a filling in it, and a cavity had formed under the filling. Also, my tooth had become abscessed, so that is why I was hurting so bad. She went on and cleaned my teeth, and even worked on the one that was hurting. I was surprised it didn't hurt. When she pulled the floss out of the tooth that was hurting, I felt a pop and something in my mouth. It was part of the tooth. She said, "Well, I guess it is broke." At first the pain stopped, but before I left it was killing me. They couldn't do anything to it because it is infected, so they gave me a prescription for antibiotics and pain medicine. I went and go that filled, and by the time I got home I was in tears. I took the medicine and it relieve it; however, the pain came back later on in the day and NOTHING would work. It wouldn't be so bad if all of the teeth on the top of the right side were not KILLING me. I finally went to sleep, but woke to PAIN and took more pain medicine. I slept a little bit, and at times the pain would go away, but only to come back. Right now, it is not hurting. (thank goodness) However, it is still there. Every once and a while a pain shoots through it. I have an appointment for a root canal Tuesday at 8. Keith's (works with Wes) wife works at a dentist office in West Monroe or Monroe, and got me an appointment. I originally had an appointment at my regular dentist, but something happened and I will not be going back there. (no going into it) Wes got Keith to call her this morning about getting a different type of pain pill, because these don't seem to be working. However, I am allergic to codeine, and that is what they give when darvocet doesn't work. Right now, I think I have taken so many darvocet that they must be working. As I am typing, I am falling asleep and feel like I am floating. So, if this entry makes no sense or says something crazy, I am drugged up. The good part is that I am not in pain right now. Hopefully, by tomorrow the antibiotic will have kicked in and gotten the infection out and it will feel better. They say once the infection goes away the pain will go away or at least not be as bad. I hope so, because if it doesn't, it is going to be a long weekend. This is just what I wanted for my birthday (which is Monday)….. a toothache and root canal…. It could be worse though.

Before I go, I want to ask everyone that reads this to please pray for Hallie Beth Gravelle and her family. She is 5 yrs old, and has neuroblastoma. You can go visit her Caringbridge site at http://www.caringbridge.org/la/hallie//, and leave her and her family encouraging words. When you read their journey, it makes you so thankful for what you have and you realize that small trivial things really don't matter. Such as my tooth ache…..