Dental nightmare!

Hi All,

Hope everyone is well! Its been a little crazy here over the bank holiday weekend. On Thursday i had an appointment at the dental hospital for a pre-treatment assessment. I was the first on the list in the morning so almost as soon as i got there i was called into see richard my dentist. He was lovely! He asked me to write all my medications down as there were so many :-) i wrote them all down for him and then he wanted to examine my teeth. All in all there in fairly good shape except the two we already knew about! I had some treatment in my home town but because i am allergic to latex the dentist didnt wear gloves and i think this has led to reoccuring abcess's in two of my teeth-my crown at the front and one of my molars at the back-at least this is the general feeling! He poked the sore tooth at the back and i nearly hit the roof. His conclusion was i needed to be referred onto a more senior dentist at the hospital, due to me needing to be first on the list and preferably first thing on a monday morning too so that any allegens are at their lowest, i also need steroid cover when i have any treatment done which requires venous access which is something that i have struggled with the last few admissions! All in all i was told it would take a few weeks to sort it all out!

I got home from my appointment and baked a cake for my neighbour (sorry no pictures yet-couldnt work that bit of technology out!:-)) i also made some alcoholic truffles for her and then took everything round at about 6pm!!

By about midnight my tooth was starting to hurt a little bit so i took some paracetamol before i went to sleep. On Friday morning when i woke up my tooth was agony and my face was swollen all on the side my sore tooth was on-all the tell tail signs of an abcess - again! I popped to my local dentist to get a script for some antibiotics-they wouldnt do it and said id need to see someone and they couldnt fit me in! I tried the doctors surgery no joy there either so i called the dental hospital-got an appointment for tuesday (today)!

I do have a course of antibiotics at home that are to start if i get poorly whilst im waiting for a doctors appointment. I started these hoping that the abcess would be sensitive to them. I had a rather rough weekend and couldnt eat anything as my tooth was so painful. I spent most of the weekend dosed up on painkillers! On bank holiday monday it was feeling a bit better but was still very sore. I went to the dentist today. I dont know what i expected him to do really given the discussion we had on thursday but i guess i just wanted him to dress the filling do something to stop it hurting! This didnt happen he didnt even look at my tooth. He just said i was a complex case and it wasnt as straight forwards as normal. He did give me some more antibiotics to take for another 5 days- i really really hope they work as im not sure i could cope with this toothache for too much longer-its quite draining!

I had a few drinks with my neighbour and her friend outside our houses this evening-we were waiting for the ice cream man for the kid's :-) its always good having a catch up with people!!

Anyways i just thought id keep you posted on whats happening! Tribunal wise i havent had any news yet so its still in the tribunal's hands-it apparently can take upto 28 days to make a decision! I'll let you all know when i hear anything! :-)

Hope everyone else is well and getting on ok! Im going to have an early night i think it was an early start today! :-)

Speak soon.
Lotsa lv Rattles Xxxx