Why me!!

Why is it that when someone else gets sick it is just a minor cold or a toothache, but when I have to get sick, it is some disease that we've never even heard of. My hubby tells me that he got a defective piece in the form of a wife.

So, yesterday while returning back from work I felt feverish & the temperature kept creeping up. The left side of my face started hurting. I thought it must be something related to an innocent looking mouth ulcer that I had been having since a couple of days. So I had crocin & hoped that by morning I would be hail & hearty. Morning was a shock coz thewhole left side of my face was swollen up & I looked dilapidated. I did not know who to see, a general physician or a dentist. Hubby insisted on the dentist so off I went with hubby in tow. Apparently, the innocent looking ulcer was not an ulcer at all. It was the opening of my salivary duct that had got inflamed due to some infection or blockage. The doctor said it could be a stone lodged in one of the many branches of my salivary duct. I had never heard of a stone formation in any body part above the abdomen. How strange is that??? So I have been put on a heavy dose of antibiotics & anti inflammation medicines & if it does not get better by tomorrow, we might need to inject a dye in my salivary gland via a small tube & get an x-ray done.

When I reached office, my boss tells me that I am looking fine. Oh sure!! By the way, I am not that much of a workaholic that I would not want to rest at home, but boss is a boss is a boss!! & I don't blame him coz he leads by example. So I should not crib. He is a kind man & even insisted that I take a second opinion from the Company physician which I did. This doctor scared me even more.I think these doctors need a lesson in patient psycology coz he told me that we will have to wait & watch till Monday & if things do not look good by then we would have to do something. What would we have to do, I ask & he tells me that he did not want to scare me & so he will discuss this with me only on Monday. Oh sure.........what u have said just now is not scary at all. !!

So that's where I stand today & wish that it was a case of another simple RCT that I at least know the a,b,c of by now.

second opinion

So the second opinion of the other dentist was the same as the first. So i guess we really will have to go in for the general Anastasia. The whole issue is "WHEN?'I had earlier thought that we'll be doing it next Sunday, but then I realised that Abhi is leaving for Rajasthan for Dharmender's marriage on Wednesday, & he'll be gone for 1 week. Should I do this all my myself? I don't know exactly. I've not yet discussed with Abhi.

Dental dilimma

We went to the dentist yesterday in the evening & he left us with 2 options:
1- Extract the front four teeth. He will as it is get his new teeth after 6 year of age.
2-Give Ansh General Anaesthesia & do the root canal treatment. This option is going to be expensive & we won't be able to claim it through insurance.
We did give the nod for the root canal under general anaesthesia to the doctor who asked us to go ahead for some basic blood tests etc so that the procedure could be done next Sunday.
However, we spoke to Ansh's paediatrician in the night & he asked us to take a second opinion . So while I am at office working today, Abhi is in another clinic with Ansh, taking a second opinion.

Teeth! again!

Oh , we had a terrible night yesterday. Ansh had a toothache. I reached home late (10:00 pm) & i saw a swollen eyed baby just ready to sleep. He was however hungry, so again he wanted pasta & I complied. He had a little bit & went to sleep. Promptly, Abhi put on a movie for us to see. Halfway through, Ansh got up crying from toothache. I consoled & put him to sleep. Back to the movie on very low volume. Again Ansh was up in a little while.This cycle contnued for a good 4-5 times, till I put my foot down & asked Abhi to finish seeing the movie later, to which he promptly agreed. We ultimately slept properly only after giving Ansh some combiflam .(Had given Calpol earlier, but it was not helping) at 4:00 am. Thankfully, I woke up at 9:00 & was at work by 10:00am. All through the night, we also kept trying to convince Ansh to go to the dentist. But he always kept resisting. So we know that even if we take him to the dentist, he will not cooperate. We need a second opinion.