So for the first thing, I was dealing with a tooth ache for about a week before Thanksgiving. I went to the dentist the wednesday before thanksgiving. They figured out that I had a deep cavity under a big ugly grey filling in my last lower molar(right in front of my wisdom tooth) on my right side. He went over all of my options at that point. He could try to carefully take off the ugly grey filling and clean it out and place a new filling on it but he was concerned since the decay was close to the nerve that the decay might have gotten into the nerve. He explained that I could opt for a root canal or have the tooth extracted at that point. He explained all the prices and everything he could do. I opted for trying to place a new filling and if the decay was too bad to go ahead and extract the tooth. Since, it was Thanksgiving eve and he was super busy and short staffed. I told him I could schedule an appointment the next week. He prescribed me some Hydrocodone(Vicodin) to get through until then. I took one that night. Then the tooth hurt some the next day, but I took some otc pain reliever and i was fine. It didn't hurt the rest of the week. So i went back this past wednesday, nov 30. I was given one injection of numbing agent that was good until he got close to the nerve then he gave me another injection because I was wincing in pain. He drilled out the ugly gray filling and was able to save the tooth. He filled in the the tooth with the new white fillings. After about hour, I was able to go home. It was numb for the rest of the afternoon, it was aching and throbbing once the numbness wore off. I was able to eat though. I took another prescribed pain reliever that night tues night. He prescribed me 16 tablets and as of today I have 11 tablets left. The pain has lessen, it does usually hurt until the evening. So hopefully, by next week, I will be able to stop taking the tablets.
Yesterday, saturday I was finally able to decorate our place with the christmas stuff. I really like everything. Here some pictures.
The last week has been crazy weather. The last 2 weeks before thanksgiving it was in the single digits with some days the wind chill was in the negative double digits. It was so so cold. I stayed inside as much as possible. I didn't go outside for my lunch break. But this last week, it jumped up in just a few days from the teens to about 30-40 degrees. Now, a horrible rain storm with really high winds(like 50-60mph) has settled in. This is making the roads a slushy mix. So much so, that we could not get out to go to church this morning. As, the temperaturees go down tonight, everything will freeze over making it very slick and very thick ice. But, thankfully, I think this is the worse part of the storm will be over after today and then we believe will get another snow storm by next weekend. Lovely AK weather:)
