I Should Be In Bed…

long time. I was finally seen around 7:30, and by 8:00 I was on my way to the emergency dental clinic. All this on the one hour of sleep I’d had since waking up at 7:30am on Friday morning. I caught small snatches of sleep between getting to the clinic and the time they finally saw me. According to the X-rays they took, it’s just an infection. But my options were to either A) take antibiotics and hope that it helps, or B) see a root canal specialist. Since I’m relying on the county healthcare system, and the specialist is not in that system, I can’t afford option B, so I took my prescriptions for Penicillin and Naprosyn back to Santa Clara Valley Med Center and then went to lunch. After lunch I went home for a nap – only slept for 3 hours – and back down to SVMC to pick up my meds. With all the pain in my jaw, I didn’t get back to sleep until about 12:30am on Sunday morning. I learned something on Saturday though. Naprosyn really doesn’t do anything for me as far as killing pain. I put it away and am taking the Advil. I’m stretching it out as far as possible because I really don’t want to overdo it. I woke up Sunday morning at 8:00 and my jaw wasn’t very sore. I managed to find some Cream of Rice and had a nice soft-foods breakfast. Took more antibiotics and advil. By 11:00 though, my jaw was in pain again. I held off as long as possible, but ended up taking more advil at noon. I laid down about 12:30-ish, and the next thing I know it’s 8:00pm. My tooth’s been pretty mild since – respectively speaking – but is still very sore. I’m hoping that the antibiotics will have kicked in enough by the time I go to my first class today that I will be able to pay attention to what’s going on. And then I have my evening class at 7:00pm. I really don’t want to miss any of my classes this week… or be late to them. I enrolled in them two months ago now. I made sure that I wasn’t on any waiting lists. I don’t want to have to be on any waiting lists. I had a dream that I slept through my first English class and was late to my Network Essentials class in the evening. I can vividly remember how disappointed I was that I missed the classes. The thought running through my head was, “This is just like when I was at MJC back in the early 90’s. I failed then, and I’m on the way to failure now.” I really do NOT want that to happen this time. So no matter what, I’ll be in my classes in the morning. 🙂 Anyway… That’s enough from me for now. I’m going to bed now. Thanks for visiting and Keep Coming Back!!!]]>