ROOT CANAL= PAIN AND DOLLARS

It hasn’t been a good day!!! Woke up through the night, with my tooth throbbing, and my ear hurting just as bad!! Got up took some Tylenol, and returned to bed, waiting and hoping the Tylenol would kick in soon. I fell asleep, woke at 7:30, and again, headed straight for the Tylenol bottle, fumbling in pain to get the darn child proof lid off and anxious for some relief as quickly as possible. I took a chance and called my dentist, and sure enough, they have early hours and answered my desperate call, to move my appointment from Friday to today.

This tooth, a huge molar on the bottom has cost me one huge bunch of money back from about 1995! I’ve had many root canals done on it, but there is a problem with the tooth, which is also capped. My dentist in Belleville gave me a letter and x-ray of the tooth from when he last looked at it, so it gave this dentist here in West Vancouver, a heads up what to expect. It seems that there are 3 roots into the tooth. Only one, has been “deactivated” and filled. The other two, can’t be found because they are extremely small, but it’s those little ones, that have to be found, “deactivated” and filled. I have to be sent to a specialist who does nothing but root canals and has this incredible magnifying machine that will allow him to hopefully find those little two canals. The expense is incredible!!! Money up front too!!!

I was hoping when I went to the dentist this morning, that all would be well tonight, but instead, I’m on antibiotics, Tylenol Extra Strength, and armed with an appointment for a $85.00 consultation next week, which will then begin more appointments for the endodontic procedure as they dig VERY DEEP hunting for the elusive roots! OUCH!!!!!!!!!!

OUCH to my bank account too!!!!!!!!!

The patio set got put out today, and the deck cleaned up, so, it’s a good feeling that summer can’t be too far away. Our new fridge arrives tomorrow and I can’t wait for that also!!

Tomorrow, I go for a much needed perm….yahoooo! More $$$$

Tonight is Survivor night, and how I love to sit and watch my favourite show with a bag of hot popcorn and a diet pop. Ain’t gonna happen tonight!!

I took a few pictures while out today, so here they are!! Beautiful eh?

Now for a special request!! Would everyone reading this PLEASE say a prayer for my sister-in-law, Wanda, who is undergoing breast cancer surgery tomorrow. Please God, keep her safe and make her well!!

My thoughts will be with you all day tomorrow Wanda!!! Sure makes, my problem very inconsequential doesn’t it!!!

LAUGHING SO HARD IT HURT

Everyone, has had those moments that are incredibly funny and you just can’t get it together to stop laughing, then the next day, when you remember back, it’s not so funny after all? Last night, I roared with laughter over the situation and found it so funny, that I just couldn’t get myself to stop……here’s what happened!!

I stayed up longer then Tom did last night, while I sat in the bathtub, reading my book. Finally, my own eyes wouldn’t stay open and I wasn’t comprehending even what I was reading, so I got out, dried off, onto nightgown and I turned out all the lights, and opened the bedroom door, and trying to be quiet, as I could hear Tom snoring and in a nice deep sleep. Only I misjudged the door frame in the dark and ended up SLAMMING the door, and instantly the snoring stopped and I thought….”oh no, I woke the poor guy up!!!” So, I stayed quiet a moment. Tom has this ability to drop off to sleep very quickly and before I could count to 10, he was snoring again!

So, quiet as I could,  I opened the patio door, nice and wide, and stepped out to feel the lovely warm evening. I could still hear Tom snoring away in a nice even gentle snore. Coming in, I tripped and stubbed my toe and fell against the bed, as I quietly swore!! Tom stopped snoring, so again, I was very quiet, and soon he started to continue his sleep, along with the snore.

I’m really sensitive to noise, so I have sponge ear plugs I keep in a little dish, beside the bed, thrown in with a pile of earrings. I was feeling around in the dark trying to feel the sponge plugs, and the dish tipped over onto this plastic tray and it was just “rattle, rattle, rattle”, as I picked through the earrings until I found the ear plugs. The snoring stopped, and I waited quietly, until it began again.

As quietly as I could, I took the big square decorative cushion that sits against the headboard, as well as the two other pillows, I don’t use, until only my little soft pillow was left. I went to set them on the floor, the big cushion slipped out of my hand and fell against the vertical blinds, which, crashed and banged and the blinds swayed back and forth!! Sheeesh….what else could go wrong!!! The snoring stopped, I waited until he began again.

I grabbed the blankets and sheets and pulled them down so I could slide in, the snoring stopped, and once I was in bed,  I realized, that Tom hadn’t got under the sheet, only the duvet, and we couldn’t sleep like that, and by this time, he was beginning to turn over in bed. So, I said “Tom, you’re in the wrong sheet, you have to get out and get under the blankets right!

So, he grumbled and groaned and was trying to get out of bed, and as soon as he stood up, I realized it was me under the sheet and was laying on the mattress cover!!!

I couldn’t help laughing!!! I laughed and I laughed and I laughed!! I had Tom laughing, I was laughing so hard. My stomach hurt, I couldn’t get control over it and I could barely get out, to tell him what I was laughing at, that it was ME under the wrong sheet, not him. I had made him get out of his warm bed, and interrupted his good sleep for some dumb thing I had done which to me was just a comedy of errors right from the beginning!!!

It’s one of those “you had to be there” type of situations!!! But, it feels good to have a good belly laugh like that now and then. But, I couldn’t sleep then, because, I’d settle down, then think about it again, and get giggling hysterically into my pillow.

Something, I forgot to mention, was that I have this miserable toothache!!!

It’s been aching since I woke up on Monday and hoped it would settle down and stop aching, but it got worse through the day. Tylenol helped for awhile, but it makes me so tired and then another time, if I take Tylenol before bed, it keeps me awake, so it’s a “crap shoot” whichever way it will go! Last night, after I stopped laughing, which tended to really make it ache more, I ended up having a miserable night with little sleep after taking two pills.

We had to be up and at the hospital for 8 a.m for a 6 hour stress test for Tom. It’s a hurry up and wait type of test!!

There is nothing worse sitting around a hospital!! I kept eyeing the gurneys and wondering if anyone would notice if I crawled onto one while I waited. Thought I better not!! Got home took Tylenol, tried to get some shut eye, but the Tylenol wouldn’t make me tired,like I hoped….nothing going my way lately….so lay there, until I was freezing and got up!!

It was arranged that our new fridge was to arrive tomorrow, and of course they deliver whenever!! So, thought I better stick around tomorrow as I have to clean the fridge out of jars and bottles and clean behind it before they put the new fridge in place, so when I called the dentist this morning, I made the appointment on Friday at 10. A perm appointment the same day at 1pm.

We get home, and there is a message from Sears that the fridge will be delivered on Friday!!! Damn!!!! Tomorrow, I’ll be on the phone early to see if I can get the tooth appointment changed. It hurts so bad, I hope I can….I’m not beneath begging!!

I’m also like a bear with a sore paw!!! Only, it’s a sore tooth!! GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

EASTER MONDAY

Good morning the day after Easter when everyone if probably getting a little sick of eating chocolate!

That was a stupid, unbelievable statements, so I take it back….who could get sick of chocolate!!!

Tom and I where lucky to have been invited to Tom’s niece, Lisa and husband Darrin, for Easter dinner, along with their children Samantha and Mitchell and with Tom’s sister Belle and Ken. We had the most delicious ham dinner with all the trimmings, served on a very lovely decorated table!

 

The three Bunny’s!!

and

Two More!

From my empty seat, to Mitchell, drummer and hockey player extraordinaire, to Darren who, is just the most all-around perfect husband in the kitchen, to Ken and  Isabelle, Toms sister, sitting side by side, and then, little Samantha, who plays the piano beautifully (these two children are extremely well behaved and a joy to be around!), then beautiful Lisa, who I always enjoy so much being around because it takes away, some of my loneliness for my own two daughters. She’s fun, and always a joy to be around. The of course, the love of my live, Tom! We are just beginning to fill our plates and was it delicious!!

 

                                                  Darren was trying out this new machine to making your vegetables look fancy!! I guess they would be delicious in a stir fry or a salad or put in cold water to make them curl up for decorations.

He was still in the experimental stage with this new machine. Look at his eyes as the cucumber is demolished into little curls!! hahahah

Then poor Darren (my hero) did ALL the dishes….now that’s a GOOD MAN!!!!!

 

Bailey got the huge ham bone, which was very quickly chewed down to a tiny bone! He wouldn’t look at me with it in his mouth.

EASTER is over for another year. The sun is shining and it’s a beautiful day and after the news is over, Tom and I will be off to do something!!

Here is a picture I took this morning, when I got up from our balcony. One is the mountains over in Victoria, and the other of some pretty trees, just below us.

This is how much the hosta’s are up in the pot on the deck!

Can’t wait, until the pot is overflowing and beautiful with big green Hosta leaves.

I love Hosta’s!!!