stupid teeth

My weekend plans were ruined due to my teeth. On Saturday night, I finally admitted to myself that something serious had to be wrong because the pain in my mouth was growing worse instead of better and even the good pain killers weren't killing all the pain anymore.

We took another trip to the emergency dentist on Sunday morning and they found an abseced (I can't spell) tooth. They gave me a choice of a root canal or pulling the tooth. After discussing cost, the likley hood of the root canal working, the space they had to work with since I have a small mouth (feel free to put snarky comment here) and it was a tooth all the way in the back, we decided it would be better to pull it. Five minutes later I was minus a tooth and all that pain. Today my jaw is a little sore where the tooth is missing but it isn't bad. I don't even need advil to deal with it which is an incredible improvement. Who knew that one little tooth could cause so many problems.

I really do need to get the yardwork at some point. The grass is getting tall and the people probably think we are slobs from the look of our yard right now. I thought about doing it tonight but we were blessed with thunderstorms today so that ruined that thought. Hopefully I'll get to it this week.

My little brother is driving in today to surprise my mom with a visit. SIL and little Alec will be coming with him. I know mom will really enjoy this. Too bad she has to work until 8pm tonight. We'll probably get roped into dinner tonight but that's okay. It'll be nice to see my nephew.