I haven't been online much the past while. A month ago I went to the dentist cause I had what felt like a fistula on my gum. If you don't know what that is it feels like a little pimple and it means that you have an abcess. It was just beginning but I thought if I have to lose another tooth I'd rather get it over before Christmas. My dentist took an X-ray, looked in my mouth and said that couldn't be what it was because I have no tooth there.. it's on the gum behind my back tooth. He said to rinse with salt water, which I won't do cause I'm on a salt restricted diet. I just waited for it to clear up like he said it would. Well, it didn't clear up and I've been feeling lousy along with having a sore gum/tooth, so I went back yesterday and he looked at it again and said maybe it was an infection and he'd refer me to a specialist. I asked if I should have antibiotics. He said that was an idea, not his idea though, my idea.

So I have 7 days of penicillin, got in to the specialist on a cancellation today. He did a cat scan of my teeth. It was neat. Never had one of those before. I beeped Fur Elise as it travelled around my head. Same as the ringtone on my cell phone. I have an infection in there alright. It's eaten away part of the bone in my jaw. It's because the dentist didn't get the whole root cleaned out when he did the root canal. Geesh! So I have to go back in on Jan 14th and he'll redo the root canal and clean things up. I'm very nervous about waiting so long if that infection is still there after the anitbiotics are done. I'm gonna see if I can get on a cancellation list.

You know what though? If we still have the same dental insurance we had when the dentist did the first root canal the insurance company won't cover the specialist redoing it for $1450.00!!

So I'm not feeling real well and haven't felt like doing anything much. So nothing to show today.