So, some of you may know that Annemarie was in the hospital. Well, first we were in the Emergency Department and then the hospital. Last Wednesday morning, Annie was saying that her tooth on the upper left was bugging her. So, I took a look and didn't see anything but I made her an appointment for Thursday morning at the dentist. Well, Wednesday night when she and Scott got home from church, I noticed that her cheek was a little swollen--but still nothing when I took a peek. Anyway, when she got up Thursday morning, she was a little more swollen so off to the dentist we went. He took an x-ray and noticed a little shadow around the roots of a baby tooth, but the tooth itself looked fine. So, we started her on antibiotics and made an appointment to take the tooth out (we had to get the infection down so the local anesthetic would work.). Oh, and I guess I should mention that Mia started running a fever Wednesday night and so after we took Annie to her appointment and Mia napped, we took Mia to Urgent Care and got HER antibiotics for double ear infections!! Poor thing..but, she's doing great, now. Well, then it was back to the house and I just had Annie rest for a bit. Well, when she got up to the table to eat, I looked across the table at her and couldn't believe what I saw--the swelling had gone up under her eye and was starting to move across the bridge of her nose.
So, it was off the Loma Linda University Medical Center Emergency!! I wanted to go there because I knew that they have a dentist on call and I was hoping we would run in some antibiotics and take the tooth out in the Emergency Department. So, here is Annie in her bed in the ED looking horrible, I know......
Here she looks VERY tired because we arrived at 7:33pm, got called back at 9:45pm and waited in the hallway (Annie slept on a gurney) until 11:45pm when we were finally put in a room (he even slept through the trauma that was right next to her!!). At about midnight, the doctor came in and sounded like Annie would get an IV, a CT Scan and then get the tooth out...... She got the IV at about 1am and then it was off to CT (and let's just say that the IV was put in with the help of two nurses... :-( The CT showed that there was an abscess around one, maybe two baby teeth but that the infection had spread up around her eye and was also moving toward the midline of her face.
So, they gave her her first dose of antibiotics at 2am and then we slept for a bit. I didn't realize it until we woke up, but it wasn't until 5am-ish that the dental resident came in. And that's when she decided Annie should be admitted. SO, I ran home to get some things while Sis came down and sat with Annie and then we were moved upstairs to the Adolescent Acute Care Unit of LLU Children's Hospital. Annie then got antibiotics every 6 hours and had her vital taken every 4 hours. She was allowed to get up and move around so we went to the playroom for a bit and then went to the Activity Room for a movie (National Treasure 2) Friday afternoon. She had some visitors (Bro. Wiggins, Chris, Grammy, Aunt Cathy and the girls, Nic and Kay) and went to get a bite to eat at the cafeteria with Scott and I.
And then she was discharged Saturday afternoon. This is Annie in her bed getting her last IV antibiotics while watching TV (of, course!). She was very brave considering everything and was very cooperative with all the people who came in to see her and mess with her..... Yesterdy, we went to the Pediatric Clinic at LLU School of Dentistry and had the 2 suspicious baby teeth taken out with the help of a little nitrous oxide :-) Again, considering the size of the teeth (2 molars), she did great!! She is now on antibiotics for the next 9 days and the swelling is 99% gone. She's back at school and doing well. While we were sitting in the ED on Thursday night, I was asking her if her tooth had been bugging her for awhile and she shrugged her shoulders and said, "I guess..." Finally, she said that it would hurt and then go away and she would forget to tell me and then it would hurt again and stop, etc, etc, etc.... So then we had the discussion about how important it is to tell mom ANYTIME something hurts!! ;-)
