I am off to the dentist today. Last August I had a root canal done. It was botched. My tooth hurt forever afterwords and each time I went back the dentist made things worth. On 4 different occasions he perscribed for me an Anti-Inflammatory and IB Prophen (which is an anti inflammatory) together at their largest doses. He told me that this was the only way my tooth would stop hurting. His reasoning was the the gums were swollen and sore and once they settled the tooth would stop hurting. Well the tooth did not stop hurting AND I ended up with very severe Gastritis from the over dose of meds. :(
He also ground down my tooth a few times I went back. He told me that if we can illuminate anything from touching that tooth the swelling will go down and the tooth would stop hurting. This also did not work. The worst part was that he used up all my dental coverage on this terrible job and now I have had to live with the pain till the new year.
I have had a mouth guard (of and on since a teenager) that I am suppose to wear at night but have been unable to wear it because of the pain in the one tooth. This is bad because the longer I go not wearing my night guard the more damage I am causing the rest of my teeth.
I finally went back to the office to talk to someone about what had happened. Conveniently the Dentist was not available but I had a chat with soneone else (cannot mention who). Apparently I was not the only one to have these complaints about this dentist. I learned that many many people have had pain afterwords, infections and even hospitalization after seeing him.
She did recommend I still see someone about my pain but to go somewhere else. She was able to give me a few good names of local dentists.
After I left the office I researched his name on the Internet.... He is bad news. He has had many many complaints against him for bad root canals. He even dropped a file down someones throat once; several people ended up with bad infections after seeing him... The list went on and on. if only I had of done better research before seeing him in the first place.
So I did look into the other dentist I now had a list of to see if I could find someone to help me with my pain. I think I found a good one.
Today I am off to see her. I will let you know how it goes.
FYI: I would not recommend Dr. Kyle Nawrot to anyone seeking dental care.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Rawley's Lumps and Holes
Last year during the Christmas break we noticed a weird lump on the tip of Rawley's collar bone. Of course I panicked because...is a lump ever good?
We made an appointment at the doctors to get it checked out, Rawley was sent for x-rays. The x-rays revealed that the mass was not bone. Next step was an ultrasound. I can't remember what the ultrasound revealed but our family doctor decided that it was not within his knowledge to diagnose it so we were referred to a child specialist. He felt around and decided that he needed to refer us to someone else (i believe it was a bone doctor). That doctor was also unsure and sent us to Children's Hospital for a CT scan.
After a long day, no CT scan but a second ultrasound and a visit with a Doctor at Children's Hospital we were told it was nothing to be concerned about. They figured it was most likely just extra cartilage sitting there. Eww! So, we were to keep an eye on it. If we ever notice that it grows or moves to a new location then we need to go back.
After 9 months on observations, the lump has not moved at all nor has it grown. Yay!!!
This Christmas holiday we found a indentation (hole) in Rawley's sternum. I panicked a little at first because... well that is what I do. The hole was big enough for me to stick my thumb into. I did some research on the Internet and showed everyone we saw and found out nothing. There was one possible thing he could maybe of had but the other symptoms were.....
~shortness of breath
~unable to be physically active
~unable to run and walk very far....
Rawley has absolutely none of these symptoms as he runs everywhere he goes, never sits down and is the fastest kid I know.
I stopped panicking at this point. I am not sure why. Maybe I was too exhausted from everything else to panic anymore or maybe deep down I really knew it was nothing.
Anyway, we went to the doctor and found out the the little teardrop shaped bone below the sternum (Xiphoid Process) is concave instead of flat or curved out. There is no medical concern what so ever. They do not know why most people's are flat and then some people have a concave one but they do. Rawley is perfectly healthy he just has character.... A lump here and a hole there..... The most beautiful brown (turning green) eyes ever and the longest eyelashes a boy has ever had.
We made an appointment at the doctors to get it checked out, Rawley was sent for x-rays. The x-rays revealed that the mass was not bone. Next step was an ultrasound. I can't remember what the ultrasound revealed but our family doctor decided that it was not within his knowledge to diagnose it so we were referred to a child specialist. He felt around and decided that he needed to refer us to someone else (i believe it was a bone doctor). That doctor was also unsure and sent us to Children's Hospital for a CT scan.
After a long day, no CT scan but a second ultrasound and a visit with a Doctor at Children's Hospital we were told it was nothing to be concerned about. They figured it was most likely just extra cartilage sitting there. Eww! So, we were to keep an eye on it. If we ever notice that it grows or moves to a new location then we need to go back.
After 9 months on observations, the lump has not moved at all nor has it grown. Yay!!!
This Christmas holiday we found a indentation (hole) in Rawley's sternum. I panicked a little at first because... well that is what I do. The hole was big enough for me to stick my thumb into. I did some research on the Internet and showed everyone we saw and found out nothing. There was one possible thing he could maybe of had but the other symptoms were.....
~shortness of breath
~unable to be physically active
~unable to run and walk very far....
Rawley has absolutely none of these symptoms as he runs everywhere he goes, never sits down and is the fastest kid I know.
I stopped panicking at this point. I am not sure why. Maybe I was too exhausted from everything else to panic anymore or maybe deep down I really knew it was nothing.
Anyway, we went to the doctor and found out the the little teardrop shaped bone below the sternum (Xiphoid Process) is concave instead of flat or curved out. There is no medical concern what so ever. They do not know why most people's are flat and then some people have a concave one but they do. Rawley is perfectly healthy he just has character.... A lump here and a hole there..... The most beautiful brown (turning green) eyes ever and the longest eyelashes a boy has ever had.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Sad To Say Good-Bye
Back in June of this year we hired our first full time shop employee, Tommy. Someone to be here all year long that does not go work out in the field.
As previously mentioned I don't get along well with my boss at work. For most of the year we are the only 2 people in the office so it gets very lonely. Between jobs we have one of our job foreman around and he is a decent guy although quite moody. (borderline scary)
Tommy was originally brought in for a few days to help us load trucks. We had a job starting in Alberta and had to load all the equipment needed onto a few flatdecks over a couple days. All of our employees were out of town and we had no one available to do the work and Tommy had just dropped a resume off the week before. He worked his butt off for us those few days and Mark decided we could not get rid of him.
When Tommy first started he was this super hardworking Irish guy who I could barely understand but enjoyed. He literally ran everywhere he went around the shop and yard. I have never seen anyone work so hard.
Over time Tommy and I became good friends. Rawley just loves him and think he is the greatest friend ever. Tommy has become a part of our lives. He has met all my friends, come for dinner and even babysat for us so Ryan and I can go out. He is just a really descent guy to have around.
Work has become pleasant because there is someone to talk to, someone who smiles at work and cracks jokes.
Today Tommy quite. :(
He had a weekend job that turned into a full time job. I don't blame him for leaving. The work and pay are better at his other job and I want him to be happy to do well.
I am, however, very sad to lose my only friend I have had at work and the only descent, polite and friendly person I have worked with here.
It's going to be a long 6 months.
As previously mentioned I don't get along well with my boss at work. For most of the year we are the only 2 people in the office so it gets very lonely. Between jobs we have one of our job foreman around and he is a decent guy although quite moody. (borderline scary)
Tommy was originally brought in for a few days to help us load trucks. We had a job starting in Alberta and had to load all the equipment needed onto a few flatdecks over a couple days. All of our employees were out of town and we had no one available to do the work and Tommy had just dropped a resume off the week before. He worked his butt off for us those few days and Mark decided we could not get rid of him.
When Tommy first started he was this super hardworking Irish guy who I could barely understand but enjoyed. He literally ran everywhere he went around the shop and yard. I have never seen anyone work so hard.
Over time Tommy and I became good friends. Rawley just loves him and think he is the greatest friend ever. Tommy has become a part of our lives. He has met all my friends, come for dinner and even babysat for us so Ryan and I can go out. He is just a really descent guy to have around.
Work has become pleasant because there is someone to talk to, someone who smiles at work and cracks jokes.
Today Tommy quite. :(
He had a weekend job that turned into a full time job. I don't blame him for leaving. The work and pay are better at his other job and I want him to be happy to do well.
I am, however, very sad to lose my only friend I have had at work and the only descent, polite and friendly person I have worked with here.
It's going to be a long 6 months.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Baby News
*warning: contents of blog may to offensive to some*
We are currently 14 weeks and 4 days along and I don't know too much more about this little one inside of me. I have been noticing over the past few weeks that I am huge. I think I even previously mentioned it in a post. I have only gained a couple pounds but everything has shifted out front. Anyway, I also started to have dreams of twins almost every night. So I got myself all worked up. My dad is a twin so I do have a higher chance of getting twins.
I am only somewhat terrified about the possibility. I mean two babies? Can I really handle two babies?
Tuesday we had our regular doctor (actually a midwife) appointment so I brought up my concerns of my rapidly expanding belly. I told her of the history of twins in my family and she decided to measure my uterus. It was in fact quite large for how far along we are. At 14 weeks the normals size is 14cm. Anywhere from 12-16cm is considered medically normal though because of different peoples variances. I measured just over 20cm. The midwife really did not say to much about it though so I was not clear on what her thoughts were. Then she tried to find a heartbeat with her Doppler and couldn't. This to me was a little bit scary. If I was big enough to possibly have two in there or be further along how come we can't find even one heartbeat? We had also heard it previously at 10 weeks along, so why not now? I know that this can be totally normal to not hear the heartbeat at 14 weeks so I was not suppose to worry. It is my nature to worry though.
In the next few hours following the appointment I tried to find any information I could find on the Internet about carrying twins, not hearing a fetal heartbeat, other reasons to measure large. This is what I found..
I could:
~ be carrying twins
~ have excess amniotic fluid in my uterus
~ be further along then originally thought (although we should have heard a heartbeat then)
~ have a Uterine Fibroid (usually not harmful)
~ have a bigger than normal baby because of gestational diabetes
~ have a baby that is positioned higher than normal
The midwife was concerned enough to send us for an urgent ultrasound. Unfortunately because ultrasounds are so booked up we still have to wait until next Thursday to go. Until then I am trying my hardest not to worry about twins, not hearing the heartbeat or anything else.
Oh and as far as not hearing the heart beat my wonderful, loving, dimwitted husband (whom I am not currently speaking to) has reassured me that fat women sometimes can't hear a heart beat because there is just too much...well fat to listen through. Aww isn't he sweet and helpful!?
Stupid Jerk!!!!!!!
We are currently 14 weeks and 4 days along and I don't know too much more about this little one inside of me. I have been noticing over the past few weeks that I am huge. I think I even previously mentioned it in a post. I have only gained a couple pounds but everything has shifted out front. Anyway, I also started to have dreams of twins almost every night. So I got myself all worked up. My dad is a twin so I do have a higher chance of getting twins.
I am only somewhat terrified about the possibility. I mean two babies? Can I really handle two babies?
Tuesday we had our regular doctor (actually a midwife) appointment so I brought up my concerns of my rapidly expanding belly. I told her of the history of twins in my family and she decided to measure my uterus. It was in fact quite large for how far along we are. At 14 weeks the normals size is 14cm. Anywhere from 12-16cm is considered medically normal though because of different peoples variances. I measured just over 20cm. The midwife really did not say to much about it though so I was not clear on what her thoughts were. Then she tried to find a heartbeat with her Doppler and couldn't. This to me was a little bit scary. If I was big enough to possibly have two in there or be further along how come we can't find even one heartbeat? We had also heard it previously at 10 weeks along, so why not now? I know that this can be totally normal to not hear the heartbeat at 14 weeks so I was not suppose to worry. It is my nature to worry though.
In the next few hours following the appointment I tried to find any information I could find on the Internet about carrying twins, not hearing a fetal heartbeat, other reasons to measure large. This is what I found..
I could:
~ be carrying twins
~ have excess amniotic fluid in my uterus
~ be further along then originally thought (although we should have heard a heartbeat then)
~ have a Uterine Fibroid (usually not harmful)
~ have a bigger than normal baby because of gestational diabetes
~ have a baby that is positioned higher than normal
The midwife was concerned enough to send us for an urgent ultrasound. Unfortunately because ultrasounds are so booked up we still have to wait until next Thursday to go. Until then I am trying my hardest not to worry about twins, not hearing the heartbeat or anything else.
Oh and as far as not hearing the heart beat my wonderful, loving, dimwitted husband (whom I am not currently speaking to) has reassured me that fat women sometimes can't hear a heart beat because there is just too much...well fat to listen through. Aww isn't he sweet and helpful!?
Stupid Jerk!!!!!!!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Little Bit of Our Christmas
I didn't really take too many pictures this year. Which is odd for me because I usually take too many pictures of everything. Rawley got a digital camera for Christmas so I will snag some of his later.
Our Christmas was low key this year. The last 3 years we have spent with Ryan's family and had a big do. This year they stayed in Manitoba and we stayed in BC.
We spent Christmas eve with my dad. We had dinner at Boston Pizza and then went to church with him. Dustin joined us afterwords for the traditional Christmas Eve drink and to watch The Christmas Carol.
The rest of Christmas day was relaxing. Rawley played with his toys and I cooked. I wore my pjs all day long and did not even put on makeup. It was great. I was preparing food for our Boxing Day open house and my Grandma & Grandpa's house.
On boxing day all my relatives on my dad's side of the family get together at my grandparents house to eat, visit and exchange gifts. It was great this year because almost everyone was there. Rawley brought his Nerf Machine Gun and everyone got their turn in the back yard. The kids had a blast.
Our Christmas was low key this year. The last 3 years we have spent with Ryan's family and had a big do. This year they stayed in Manitoba and we stayed in BC.
We spent Christmas eve with my dad. We had dinner at Boston Pizza and then went to church with him. Dustin joined us afterwords for the traditional Christmas Eve drink and to watch The Christmas Carol.
~ The Boys all cozy watching The Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens~
Christmas morning we opened gifts with my dad at his house. Rawley got so spoiled. Dad went off to do his Christmas routine and we went home to play with Rawley's toys.
~ setting up The Nerf Vulcan EBF - 25, Fully Automatic Toy Dart Gun~
~ Shooting 3 darts per second is pretty fun~
This wonderful Nerf Gun monstrosity was from Rawley's Auntie Crystal and her boyfriend Al. Apparently Al picked out the toy; too bad he lives so far us or he could come play. Rawley also got another Nerf gun from Santa and 100 spare darts in case we lose some. He got a digital camera from us and Marbles Works from his Grandma & Grandpa. It has been great having Rawley totally entertained for days.The rest of Christmas day was relaxing. Rawley played with his toys and I cooked. I wore my pjs all day long and did not even put on makeup. It was great. I was preparing food for our Boxing Day open house and my Grandma & Grandpa's house.
On boxing day all my relatives on my dad's side of the family get together at my grandparents house to eat, visit and exchange gifts. It was great this year because almost everyone was there. Rawley brought his Nerf Machine Gun and everyone got their turn in the back yard. The kids had a blast.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
It Started Out Great
Yesterday was clearly a day of failures for me. I suppose we all have them, but my crazy emotions made me a miserable fountain of tears mixed with a touch of anger.
Once I finally composed myself... well as best I could. We walked down to the library to return our books. Upon returning I started the laundry. By the time the washer was done I realized that my cell phone was still in the pocket of my pants. Opps! Then there were more tears.
Rawley was asked nicely to leave me alone because I was upset but as most seven year olds he thought that meant to be a huge pain in the butt and be mouthy and argumentative. Therefore Rawley ended up in bed early with a spank. This brought on more crying by both Rawley and I.
After 25 minutes of crying on his behalf and about 5 on mine we decided to talk about it and say our prayers for bed.
I then tried uploading the videos of Rawley's Christmas concert to my blog. As you can see there was no success. We apparently don't know how to do that. So... I take back my promise of sharing his wonderful concert with you. Sorry.
I had hopes that today would be better but it did not start well. Rawley was not much of a listener this morning. "Please hurry and eat" meant "play with your breakfast", "please go brush you teeth" clearly meant "please hide in my closet". "Rawley go put your shoes and coat on" meant "Rawley go read your planner". "Rawley put your show and coat on RIGHT NOW" meant "sit on the floor and stare at me like I am an idiot".
Then when we got to his out of school care. The lights were off and the doors were locked. What? no one called me to tell me we had moved to another school for the day. So, we walked around the school in the rain to see if we were maybe in another classroom. Nope. Phoning to see where they were was out of the question since I decided to wash my cell phone last night....therefore lets drive around all morning and see if we can find where your day care is today = me late for work and wet and angry.
The morning started out great. Rawley had me up at 8:15 for breakfast. I finished up the grocery list and after getting Ryan up we were out of the house by 9:30 for early morning grocery shopping. It is always best when the store is almost empty. We were done shopping and home baking by 11. Rawley helped mix all the ingredients for sugar cookies. Then he helped do all the cut outs. After lunch we spend at least an hour as a family (Ryan was in and out of the activity) decorating sugar cookies while listening to Christmas music. We had mixed up 5 different icing colours and had them in Ziploc baggies to do detailed art on our cookies. They turned out beautiful. We were all so pleased with ourselves.
~ Rawley & I decorating...Ryan got a little excited with the sprinkles. opps~
I put the cookies in the fridge to set the icing........THEN.... I dumped a bottle of apple cider over them all and they turned into mush. Thus started the anger of throwing things and maybe (definitely) swearing. I even took an apple out of the fridge and smashed it on the floor. Then the tears came on... and on and on and on. Then Ryan got mad because I was mad therefore Rawley got yelled at. Then Rawley was mad and acting out... then I got mad at him... Then I cried some more & Rawley cried too.
~ What we were able to salvage from the mushy wet cookies ~
Once I finally composed myself... well as best I could. We walked down to the library to return our books. Upon returning I started the laundry. By the time the washer was done I realized that my cell phone was still in the pocket of my pants. Opps! Then there were more tears.
Rawley was asked nicely to leave me alone because I was upset but as most seven year olds he thought that meant to be a huge pain in the butt and be mouthy and argumentative. Therefore Rawley ended up in bed early with a spank. This brought on more crying by both Rawley and I.
After 25 minutes of crying on his behalf and about 5 on mine we decided to talk about it and say our prayers for bed.
I then tried uploading the videos of Rawley's Christmas concert to my blog. As you can see there was no success. We apparently don't know how to do that. So... I take back my promise of sharing his wonderful concert with you. Sorry.
I had hopes that today would be better but it did not start well. Rawley was not much of a listener this morning. "Please hurry and eat" meant "play with your breakfast", "please go brush you teeth" clearly meant "please hide in my closet". "Rawley go put your shoes and coat on" meant "Rawley go read your planner". "Rawley put your show and coat on RIGHT NOW" meant "sit on the floor and stare at me like I am an idiot".
Then when we got to his out of school care. The lights were off and the doors were locked. What? no one called me to tell me we had moved to another school for the day. So, we walked around the school in the rain to see if we were maybe in another classroom. Nope. Phoning to see where they were was out of the question since I decided to wash my cell phone last night....therefore lets drive around all morning and see if we can find where your day care is today = me late for work and wet and angry.
BUT it has to get better from here... I figure I am not at home so cannot ruin anything that is my own. Work is fairly slow right now so I can't really make too many mistakes. If I can manage to say "Good Morning/Afternoon, Clara Industrial" I should be okay.
Here's to a better day.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Christmas Concert
Rawley's Christmas concert was last night and it actually made me cry it was so good.
Rawley is in the choir so he sang with his class and the choir. He is such a little cutie and he sang so well. Made my heart melt. They sang 'My Grown up Christmas List' by Kelly Clarkson (I think) and it was so emotional. First off it is a great song that I had never heard before plus the choir sang it so well.
I have 4 videos to upload for those (like Grandma) who would like to see it. However, I forgot the USB cord at home today so can't do it right now. I will do it for you tomorrow.
There is a little girl (I'm call her Kim) that is in Rawley's school and she is in a wheel chair. Kim used to be in Rawley's class, last year I think. She can't talk, walk or really even move her arms. She is adorable though and when the kids start singing she gets a huge grin on her face and moves her arms (as much as she can) to the music. It is so touching to see how she can find joy in her school mates singing. The other girl that was standing beside Kim kept turning towards her and singing to her and I just started to cry. Pregnancy emotions maybe, but I just can't help but love how the other children love and care for her and how much she enjoys them.
Rawley is in the choir so he sang with his class and the choir. He is such a little cutie and he sang so well. Made my heart melt. They sang 'My Grown up Christmas List' by Kelly Clarkson (I think) and it was so emotional. First off it is a great song that I had never heard before plus the choir sang it so well.
I have 4 videos to upload for those (like Grandma) who would like to see it. However, I forgot the USB cord at home today so can't do it right now. I will do it for you tomorrow.
There is a little girl (I'm call her Kim) that is in Rawley's school and she is in a wheel chair. Kim used to be in Rawley's class, last year I think. She can't talk, walk or really even move her arms. She is adorable though and when the kids start singing she gets a huge grin on her face and moves her arms (as much as she can) to the music. It is so touching to see how she can find joy in her school mates singing. The other girl that was standing beside Kim kept turning towards her and singing to her and I just started to cry. Pregnancy emotions maybe, but I just can't help but love how the other children love and care for her and how much she enjoys them.
