Toothless Grin

Here it is, our first toothless grin. He was helping Daddy today, so he is a little dirty too!

Here is his old smile(and crazy X-ray). His tooth on his left(our right) is one tooth split, the other front tooth is the same except it has another tooth fused to it too. If you look closely above the top middle teeth, you can see his NORMAL adult teeth. Praise God his adult teeth don’t have the same fusion/split problems! We thought his teeth were going to be just a cosmetic problem, but when he started complaining of pain, we knew we had to head to the dentist earlier than planned. The dentist was surprised the split teeth hadn’t abscessed yet. She was not surprised that they were hurting him so bad though. She did say she has never seen anything as severe(nice,huh!)

The problem was handled at the surgery center with general anesthesia. The removed the 2(or is it 5) teeth, cleaned and the sealed the others for extra protection. He wasn’t allowed to have anything to eat or drink after midnight and we had to be there at 8:15am. He asked for juice many times that morning but we used every diversion we could think of: books, Barney, Daddy playing the guitar, t-ball outside, and a DVD in the car to name a few! Our friend, Bethany, watched Ansley for the day(Thanks a ton,B!) By 9:15 we were sitting in the waiting room, with out our boy. Thanks to the many prayers we remained full of peace and distracted by blogging and having a McDonald’s breakfast! By 10:30 we had talked to Dr. C and were headed back to the PACU to see our boy. We didn’t really know our way around back to the PACU but we followed the sounds of his screams! I couldn’t get there fast enough. Badnews was he was freaking out, goodnews was, we get the same reaction to cutting his fingernails! haha. That was strangely enough pretty comforting. He was really groggy but everything went well. We immediately set up Barney on our computer and offered him some juice. His little IV was still in, so it was a little drama getting that out, because he didn’t want to be held down to hold pressure to stop the bleeding. All three of us got splatted by his blood because of his spazzing! We headed home and spent a couple hours snuggling on the couch, watching what else but Barney and keeping his thumb out of his mouth. We had to give him a dose of benedryl (after we called the doctor back) because he was having an allergic reaction to something. His face down to his nipple line was all red and blotchy. The benedryl worked quite nicely!

I finally got him to fall asleep by rocking and reading a book to him(while holding down his thumb sucking arm!). He slept for about 45mins and woke up hysterical and bloody.

He really needed to sleep off some more of the medicine but he couldn’t!

He was too unsteady on his feet and a little restless. So we strapped both of them in and walked for hours! Our neighbors Dana and Lucas walked with us! He ate 5 popsicles too. We never have to strap him in anything, but this was exactly what he needed!

He was very content. Several times I checked to see if he was asleep because he was so relaxed.

He started acting a lot more like himself about dinner time. He was very happy to gobble up some of Ansley’s babyfood! My biblestudy core group was so sweet and brought us dinner! It was such a blessing because, I was watching him like a hawk all day(plus Ansley was home in the afternoon) and I couldn’t have imagined what we would have had if they didn’t bring us that yummy meal!

At this point he was starving, he didn’t care what it was! He had a great first night. He woke up even more normal. We are slowly getting used to his new toothless grin. Now we just need it to heal a little more so he can go back to his normal diet and a sippy cup(it’s a little ‘more’ messy around here!) We go to a follow up appointment on Tuesday morning and hopefully everything will be healing perfectly!