Root Canal Part 2

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Hi All,

Just wanted to let you all know that I am still here. I'm still sorting out

emails. I am reading the posts though, just a couple of days behind. I did

want to write a few words to let you know how things are going. I went to my

PCP on Thursday to complain again about my feet, ankles, and lower legs

swelling. It is getting worse instead of better. She told me to stop the

HCTZ and start Lasix 20mg/day. She said that I have venous insufficiency. I

want to know how she knows this without any tests such as a venous doppler.

I am really starting to not trust her. Meanwhile my feet and ankles feel

like someone is pounding on them with a sledgehammer. On Friday, I went for

the second part of my wonderful root canal. After 2 and a half hours with my

mouth propped open, he finally put in another temp filling and said that if

he had realized that my mouth was so small, he would have just pulled the

tooth in the first place. (Does anyone out there know what a temp filling

tastes like? You really don't want to know!#@$*). So now its two weeks

before we start on round 3. When I go back on Aug 9, I am going to tell him

that if he can't get in there this time, then he needs to just pull the

#@%@!*!!! thing out and give me a break already. It has been a bad week. My

whole body aches, my rheumy is on vacation, I still can't sleep. Oh that's

another thing. I spoke with my PCP about insomnia and she said that she

doesn't want to add another RX to my personal pharmacy and suggested Tylenol

PM or benadryl. Does she honestly think that I haven't tried anything that

I could get my hands on? This is why I am asking her; because I have tried

everything and I need some help. Thursday night I went to bed and fell

asleep at 8:30 on Friday morning. Wyatt gets up at 9:00 or 9:30. Anyway, I

didn't get any relief from her. I woke up on Wednesday to Wyatt having a

fit. I went out to the kitchen to discover that the whole floor was covered

with black carpenter ants. The really big ones. So I grabbed the phone and

called the landlord who came over and sprayed later that day and then decided

it was a good day to cut down the remains of a dead tree in the yard. These

are just a few of the wonderful events of the past week here in southwest PA.

By the way, please send your prayers to the coal miners and their families

who are trapped in a mine not far away from me.

Love and Hugs,

Stacey in PA