Miracles and Medical Mysteries

I just took Addie to the pediatric oral surgeon today. He said, and I quote, "Everything looks perfect. I couldn't have done a better job myself of putting it back into place." Can you believe it!? She doesn't need anything but to be careful for another 3 weeks and of course I have to cut her food up really small so she doesn't have to bite anything or chew large enough pieces to reach those teeth. It is such a miraculous blessing. It was the most horrific experience and I can't even think about it without getting knots in my stomach, but to have it turn out like this is just amazing. He says her teeth should tighten right back up to normal and be just fine, not even one little lost tooth. I am just amazed, truly amazed.
No surgery, no pins, no wired shut, no nothing.

Of course, she has not stopped being herself and I am paranoid she's going to do something to it before it's healed. If she can rip her jaw apart while laying on a table I don't know what to do other than get a straight jacket. I am going insane with worry over her every move and she hasn't slowed down even a tiny bit! Just today she banged her head on the light over the kitchen table because she was jumping up and down on top of the table. I turned my back for about 10 seconds to put a grilled cheese sandwich in the pan. What's a mom to do when she's raising a monkey? HELP!!!

As for me they can't determine if I have staff, strep, or both. Either way it's a systemic infection and my heart has been weakened (due to the MVP) because it went undetected for so long. Another bonus ... stress has a great deal to do with MVP episodes and you might say there has been a tad bit of that in my life for quite sometime now ... I have an echocardiogram scheduled to inspect the valves of my heart to see how bad the damage is and if there is still infection being harbored there. Last night I had such a bad episode of tachycardia (sp?) I thought I might be going to the ER. I called Angie and she recommended I call a nurse in our ward (why didn't I think of that?) She helped and gave me some tips on how to determine if I need to go to the ER and a technique to help my heart slow down. Angie told me she'd sleep with the phone by her bed and that she'd call me in the morning to see how I was.

It is scary going through all this without Sam around but at least I have good friends that I can call in the middle of the night. I think I'll get one of those medic alert systems put in. That would be cool! I feel 80 I might as well have all the cool gadgets that go along with it :)

I was on two antibiotics (one being a combination of two, so actually three) and started having an allergic reaction to one. I am still on three but they changed the likely culprit out so I will be on them for longer now. I am somewhat of a guinea pig and have no idea how this will all play out. I am seizing the moments I have energy and can do things and loving tv and movies when I don't. Well that's all for the medical journal now.