I was so happy to see this past Friday (9/24/11). It marked the end of quite the week for me. Saturday morning, I woke up and had a coffee with Jaime, and played with the kids and got excited for Tyler and Owen, the oldest two nephews to arrive. They were going to hang out and spend the night, go to church with us and join their parents and watch the Steelers game the next day.

Well shortly after the boys arrived, my face started to hurt on the left side. Now for a few weeks if I touched the cheek bone, I could feel a pain down into my mouth. I just assumed it a sign that my wisdom tooth was trying to come in and I needed to think about getting the tooth blocking it extracted, since the tooth had already been ravenged and was merely a shell of it's former self.

By Saturday evening I was taking four 200 mg Ibuprofens at a time, and I could feel my face starting to swell. Sunday morning brought even more intense pain, and at one point I think that I had 6 Ibuprofens in me. I could tell you as they wore off since that brought even more pain.

By Sunday afternoon Jaime had called the dentist on call number, and had talked to the dentist who was covering for the dentist and he prescribed me an antibiotic and 800 mg Ibuprofen. This made the rest of the day tolerable.

Monday I called off work, since it was creeping toward my eye and was generally starting to scare me. We got an appt with an oral surgeon for 1:30 that afternoon.

It was there that I was told I had an infected tooth, that would need to come out, so following the three most painful shots of Novocaine ever, the tooth was removed, and I was placed on Penicillin to treat the infection.

The swelling went down, and a week later it's almost not noticeable except for the missing tooth and the slight sensitivity as the face goes back to normal.

Then my week got even better...I got a cold in my chest, and spent the rest of the week coughing and sounding like a smoker...

Though my week got better when I stopped at Starbucks with my Subway dinner before Friday Night Magic. I got my first coffee in a week a Pumpkin Spice Latte with Soy and a slight bit of whip. It was ridiculous...like drinking a pumpkin pie...even had the whip cream topping...