Poor Sup

A week before Halloween sup had gone to the dentist and had some news that his back teeth were in pretty bad shape. At the end of the appointment the pediatric dentist need to pull two of his teeth and put crowns on two of them and then put spacers in for the missing teeth. He wanted to get this done as soon as possible so we set up an appointment for the following week and sent us home with antibiotics to help the infection he had in his teeth. 

At this time he wasn't in pain and seemed fine. We started the antibiotics right away and besides me going through the guilt of not getting to the dentist sooner and having to have his go through this, Sup was doing good up until the day after Halloween. On Saturday he woke up and was in a lot of pain and his right side of his face had really become swollen just over night. With it being a Saturday I wasn't sure if I could get a hold of his dentist, but I called the office and luckily they had an emergency service. To my relief he called back pretty quick and was able to call him in a stronger antibiotic and some pain medicine and gave me instructions on watching his swelling.

After getting him started on the new antibiotic which was not easy to get him to do because of the taste, I also felt he needed a blessing. I called our friend and home teacher and he was able to come over and help Eric give him a blessing. With the blessing and the medicine by early afternoon his swelling had gone down dramatically and he wasn't in any more pain. 

On Tuesday he got the teeth on his right side taken care of and the following Tuesday he got the left side taken care of. It was a rough couple of weeks for him and me, having him watch him go through this and he was a pretty tough kid. Because we wanted to get the procedures done as soon as possible he wasn't able to be put out in the office for his procedures. Even with light sedation he was aware of what was going on. He was one of the kids, which I figured when they told me, that didn't seem to affect him much. And by the second time going in had a few issues kicking and biting both the dentist and his assistant. Thankfully everything went well (well besides the kicking and biting part) and everything healed within a few days and Eric and I were both happy that Sup was back to his normal self.