After - September 12, 2008.
Well, you would look like this too if you had been sedated for two hours and had dental work done on 50% of your teeth. 
Our little Aniston had 10 of her 20 teeth fixed. Although we brush religiously each night, I am afraid our apple juice addiction of months before may have been too much for her teeth to handle. Aniston has NEVER liked milk. After she finished nursing at about 13 months she refused to take regular milk. For fear of dehydration we turned to apple juice, which definately kept her hydrated. For all of you who think that watering it down will keep the sugar bugs at bay, let me tell you...it does not. We kept saying that all the apple juice she was drinking was going to rot her teeth and guess what...it did. Other than the apple juice, which I know is enough to destroy little teeth, Aniston really didn't have much sugar in her diet. We do not keep sweets in our home and she loves healthy food. Seriously, I'm not just saying that. Needless to say, a visit to the dentist was inevitable.
We got to the dentist's at 6:15 am on Friday, September 12, 2008 and Aniston got her shot at 6:30 am. I would say she was gone within two or three minutes. The anesthetist failed to tell me that her eyes would not close when she "fell asleep". It was a very unnerving site to see my little bug in my arms with her eyes wide open, but nothing behind them. It was like she was just "there." Anyhow, they took her back, taped her eyes shut, put in her iv and went to work. They had some trouble getting the fillings on the front teeth because her poor little gums wouldn't stop bleeding. They finished up around 8:30/9:00. After they had finished working on her teeth she was moved to a recovery room for her to be monitored and to wake up. I guess, normally, it takes kids about 20 minutes to wake up, but Aniston was not budging. I sat next to her, carefully watching the monitor as she slept and slept. Her heart rate was around 103 bpm for 25 minutes or so and then it started to drop. I'm sure for anyone in the medical profession these numbers are not any cause for concern, but for a mom they are. The bpm began to drop to around 88 or so before I rushed to get the nurse. I was nervous, but the nurse wasn't. She changed Aniston's position and her bpm jumped right back up. It was only a couple of minutes after that that she began to stir and "wake-up". The term "wake-up" is used very lightly because she was far from awake. When I finally was able to take her home she had very little control over her head and was incredibly loopy.
As soon as we got home we gave Aniston some Tylenol and started our "movie fest." After an hour or so she began to get splotches all over her face and started a fever. It was at this point that I called the dentist to make sure that this was all normal. Aniston progressively got better as the day went on and by Saturday, she was completely back to her normal self.
The pictures below were taken when her face and lips were quite swollen and the splotches were starting all over her face. You hate to see your children in pain and wish you could change places with them. She really did great and was such a trooper!
5 comments:
What a poor bug! She sounds like was a serious champ:) Wells also hates water but luckily I can get him to drink soy milk. I think we will have this same thing done before Wellyn gets his second set of teeth.
oh MY! I still think she looks beautiful! I can be extra grateful today for my milk-addicts. Hope you're having fun with joy school! :o)
Poor thing! I'll keep that in mind when we start doing the juice thing!
oh mara.. I didn't realize what she had to have done, I am so sorry! I bet she was miserable. it breaks my heart to here your descriptions of her being sedated. I am sure she is better now, but give her a hug from us! it is so good to see your grandma! how are they doing? we really miss Logan, so I loved seeing those pictures. I can just see your grandma having so much fun with her and that egg!
What an ordeal! I am so sorry you had to go through that! I hope she is doing better now. My kids have some bad apple juice habits too. I also water it down but this makes me think I should cut it out altogether, poor little thing! Also, I am going private and lost your email address. If you have a minute, will you leave it for me on my blog? Thanks!
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