The Rose Family

With the clock ticking down, I managed to get the last bid in on a new Nintendo Wii with 4 seconds left on eBay. So now we are a Wii family. We're all excited. Matt and Josh are going to have a blast playing it. It's being shipped out from Illinois and should get here Monday. FHE will be fun.

So yeah, the first round of dental work is over. I spent two days with that nervous pit in my stomach, just knowing I was getting an emergency root canal. Tooth #18 (very back-bottom molar on the left) had become abscessed and it needed work. The tooth itself broke back in August, but since I dread the dentist, I never went... until it finally became unbearable. I knew I had a big problem when the numbing tooth gel I bought at the pharmacy didn't do a thing.

I was sent to a specialist for the work, and I was REALLY impressed by the office. The staff was great and the endontologist was very good at what he did. I needed three novacaine shots and some smaller shots right around the tooth itself. He ended up pulling out three roots and put me on antibiotics and vicodine. I was pretty fuzzed up the rest of the afternoon.

So part one is done. I need to go in again to get the opposite molar (#31 on the right-bottom side) worked on as well. There's a 50/50 chance it might need a root canal too, but the dentist thinks he can do enough to keep that from happening. You'd think I was chewing on gravel or something.

So can I say that I absolutely hate the dentist?