Toothache
Em had a great time at the reading celebration yesterday. They moved the games indoors and the kids got to do things like root through a tub of sand using their toes, searching for marbles. They rotated through activities in different classrooms, including using the SmartBoard interactive whiteboards to show Toy Story and 101 Dalmations. She got cotton candy and even tried a hot dog.
Em: “I wasn’t crazy about it.”
At right: her after school. Obviously there was face painting. Her hair looks so lank because I’ve been washing it less often, trying to be sure her ear doesn’t get wet before it’s full healed.
It looks like somewhere in all the activity and food she may have knocked a filling loose. In the afternoon she started saying that her teeth felt uncomfortable when she “clicked them together.” She got to sleep with a little bit of trouble but woke up again at about 11:30 saying her tooth was “extremely uncomfortable!” She had some Tylenol and went back to bed and slept pretty well from midnight to 6am. When she got up, she was crying and kept asking, “Why is this happening? What can make it stop?” We have a call in to the dentist, but they don’t keep weekend, hours, so we’ll see how all this shakes out. She was pretty miserable, but the hubby went to the grocery store (thank you, big city store hours!) and got some benzocaine swabs which I rubbed on her tooth. And now she seems fine, if sleepy. Thank God.
All this illness is throwing my kit orders a little off because I’m spending less time winding yarn and more time just being with her, but what can you do? Em has had such a rough time of it lately. Ear infections, sleep disruptions, toothaches, allergies… it just keeps coming. She’s a sweet child and just wants to be feel healthy. Poor kid.
Right now she’s wearing her Snow White nightgown (which deserves its own avalanche of awesome entry) lying on the couch watching Little Mermaid and coloring a Disney Princesses Invisible Ink book. I may pop out later on to pick up a couple more activity books. Those are always very comforting to her when she’s feeling bad.
ETA: The dentist suspects an abscess from the filling in that tooth. I’m not sure I agree, but I’m not a dentist. On the other hand, at least I’ve actually seen the child in question within the last 24 hours, so I’ve got that advantage. Ahem. Anyway, she’s calling in a prescription for amoxycillin to the dentist’s office and we’ll try to hold on until Monday morning. Em seems totally fine now with regard to her tooth, so we’ll keep up with the swabs.