Well - not sure WHAT to think . . .

When I went over to the dentist yesterday morning, I was told that I had an infection at the base of one of my back teeth.  What?  How can THAT be?  I already had a root canal done decades ago!  Well, the dentist showed me his x-ray and there it was.  As it turned out, the roots on my teeth are 35% longer than normal roots and he said whoever did the root canal work on it simply did not go all the way to the bottom of the roots, which would have prevented infections. Good grief! 

 

So he sent me over to a root canal business right next to the grocery store we always use.  It's a building on its own - not even in the shopping center, and I still hadn't ever noticed it!  Well, at least it's very handy to our home anyway.   So I went over there directly from the dentist's office and they did a scanning x-ray where the thing goes all the way around your head.  Never had that done before!  And they found the same thing exactly.  So they gave me an antibiotic prescription that I need to take 4 times a day then I go back over there on Friday and they drill a hole in the top of that tooth and re-do the root canal on all three roots in that tooth.  Yikes! I am NOT looking forward to that.  But on the other hand, it'll be good to be able to chew on food again finally.  So I guess I'm REALLY looking forward to the weekend when this is over!!!

 

Mark is coming home today - eventually.  It's taking a long time for him to get back onshore from that rig's location now.  And since Judy has been in the hospital he's going to stop over in Lafayette and see how she is.  So between the two, it may be tonight before he makes it back.  And THEN he only gets to stay home for ONE week instead of two.  Every year in May instead of 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off, they do 1 on and 1 off during the month so that the ones who get off over the holidays vary from year to year.  Well, at least this will be the LAST year he will not be home for Thanksgiving and Christmas anyway.  He MAY keep working through next year -- I don't know if that's the case -- but even if he does, he'll be retiring before the following year so there will be no more holidays by myself after this year!  Yeaaa!

 

Well I'm finally back to work and lunch is over so I better get on with it.