Ah, this has been one of those weeks that years from now, if I'm still around, will be remembered. After the Sunday fiasco in Washington, she's currently six hours away in a hospital, I followed it up with getting Monday's credit card theft, finding the broken tooth, then replacing boards on my decking preparing for staining it.
i had what felt like a gut
I got finished a little before dark and sometime around 11, I had what felt like a gut and a need to go to the bathroom. I must have gone between the couch to the bathroom dozens of times with nothing except the pain. At one point I thought I was going to chuck and I was sweating bad. I suddenly hit me that I had experienced something very similar decades ago, a kidney stone.
Paranoia set in and around 4 in the morning I jumped in the shower because I was pretty sure I was driving to the ER. After the shower I felt a bit better so I calmed down but the pain got intense again 20 minutes later. I tried the bathroom one more time, laid down and, I think through sheer exhaustion, fell asleep. I got up about four hours later and the pain was gone. I'm pretty sure it was a stone and I've been pumping water into my system as much as possible, just in case it wasn't passed yet.
So, Wednesday was fine, and I made my chiro and dentist appointment today. For a brief moment, I though I'd gotten lucky on the tooth until the dentist started making strange sounds and said a cavity was real deep. He took an ex-ray and it was so deep that it was almost all the way thru. I didn't get it as I was just there in May and there was just a little spot.
The tooth was so bad that even a root canal wasn't a good option. The tooth had to go. So, two hours later, a ton of Novocaine or whatever they use these days he had all the pieces out as it kept breaking as he tried top pull it. I was feeling almost as bad for him as I was for me. $500 later, I'm waiting for the pain to start. I also couldn't pay the bill as they couldn't take my debit card and my new credit card hasn't arrived yet.
I just wonder what the rest of the week has in store for me. I know tonight should be interesting as I'm just starting to feel a bit of an ache.