Chipmunk

On Tuesday I went into the dentist for emergency work on a rootcanal I'd had completed over 10 years ago. It took them 3 hours to remove a post from my root that was infected. They sent me home with painkillers & antibiotics. Over the next 3 days, my face began to transform into chipmunk face. The infection & swelling spread into the roof of my mouth, my eye, my nasal cavity, my temple, & is now working it's way into my eyebrow. The whole left side of my face was hot with pain & felt like I had burning shards of glass floating in my cheek bone. I ended up at a specialist office to have my tooth drained & the root canal cleaned out. The pain was so intense that my legs were violently shaking & the dentist would have to stop every few minutes cuz I was sobbing so hard. Drama, drama, drama.


Here is a picture of my normal face.

Here is a picture of my infected face. My left eye eventually got so swollen, I could hardly see out of it.

My attempt at smiling. The muscles in the left side of my face were infected so they pretty much stopped working. I couldn't smile & I could hardly open my jaw.

Jake & his cousin Devan played games while I was down. They set up the table in the living room so that they could be with me & keep me company while I was sick.

Thanksgiving

Dave demonstrates a great way to burn off calories after Thanksgiving dinner.

Adam couldn't quite figure out how to ride the bucking bronco.

Looks like he found a smaller horse to ride.

Sara busted out all of dad's old High School books for the family to look at. This is a picture of her imitating the cheerleading pictures from dads yearbook.

Dad was determined to roast hotdogs out in the backyard. This idea was canceled after the wind notified dad that it is much stronger then his desire to have a hotdog roast in November. The solution was easily solved by the family having a roasting party in the living room fire place.

Mmmmm......fireplace roasted hotdogs.

Soups on!