Not a rant! More of a heads-up! They (whoever they are) always remind us to supervise our own medical treatment. Good advice! Too many mistakes are made all too often. Case in point....

It's been a week since I first reported the tooth ache from hell to the dentist. The x-ray they took suggested that it was inflamed, but not really infected. So she sent me home with one expectation and I still had pain all weekend. Tuesday, another visit and another plan. Thursday! Can't even remember why I insisted on going in yesterday. I called four hours later and asked for a pain med. Doc though aspirin wild be sufficient until authorization for a root canal came.

We went shopping today and I was basically exhausted after I got the car unloaded, so I took a pain pill since the pain was returning--stronger in the afternoon as usual, and next thing I know the side of my face is noticeably large. I ended up at the ER after the on-call dentist at the main hospital had no suggestions to make over the phone, and the main diagnosis is that the area is infected and the antibiotic I was taking as a precaution wasn't doing anything.

The gave me a few of the new antibiotics in the ER and I have to go to the pharmacy first thing tomorrow at the same local hospital where the dentist's office is located. I figure I might as well just bring them up-to-date since nothing can really be done while the infection has a clear route to the blood stream.

So, the point, yes, there is one. The plan wasn't working as the doc expected so I probably should have said something as early as Tuesday and demanded a new plan, or at least another x-ray to determine why I was having more pain that the doc expected me to have.

I have potatoes to plant and other outdoor things to do even when the weather isn't great, but I've had no energy for the past week. Maybe by tomorrow afternoon or Friday I can get back to spending time outside which is what makes summer for me!

Have a better night than I'm having....