Jenn's Blog

Brandon and Erin moved on today. It was sad to see them go, but we'll get to spend time together next week. Erin and I did some thrift store shopping yesterday and had a great time. It was nice to get out for a bit.

My mouth had been hurting a lot. I was starting to feel anxious about it because the gums appeared to be healing the pain seemed worse. Very perplexing. Finally, I got up the nerve to pull my lower lip down - very painful - and noticed that one end of the stitches was poking out of my gums and stabbing me in the mouth. No wonder I felt like I couldn't move my mouth at all; I was getting stabbed each time I did it! I finally broke down and called the dentist and he told me that the stitches were self-dissolving and the pull the offending stitch out with some tweezers. I tried, but couldn't get it to budge. I also tried just snipping the end off, but my small, sharp scissors just weren't up to the task. I researched dissolving stitches on the internet, but couldn't really come up with anything so I was forced to call the dentist back. He asked if I could meet him up at the office asap. So I threw on a jacket and hopped in the car.

I don't know what I was thinking, but I should have asked him to numb me up from the get go. I don't know why I can't remember to do that. Always. No matter how "painless" they say it's going to be. Sigh. So he tried snipping the end, but couldn't get it. Ouch. I had to help him by pulling my lip out - very painful. He opened up some new scissors and tried again. Crazy painful. Then he swabbed me with topical...and them more topical. He hit my tongue so that was nice and numb...not to mention the topical that was washed down my throat, thereby numbing my throat as well. Oy. Finally I was good and numb and he was able to remove all the stitches without further pain. He also said that I'm healing up very, very well and everything looks just as it should. Good news indeed! I was there a total of 15 minutes, at the most! Hopped back in the car and headed home. We had just enough time to get dressed and dash out the door to get to church.

The Christmas program at church was nice. Only an hour long and the music and singing were beautiful! We really enjoyed ourselves. We headed straight over to Ben's parents where Karen had a nice dinner ready to go and then we opened gifts. After that we played some games, ate some dessert, talked, etc. Didn't get home until late, but we had a nice time!

So far, my gums feel so much better!! I really think I didn't react well to the stitches. Ben's dad has had the same problem and I was reading online that everyone reacts differently to the dissolving stitches. I'm so glad I was able to get those out!

Well, Santa has already been here so I guess it's time to head off to bed!