Please pray my tooth infection/swelling/pain resolves. If you’re reading this, please add it to your daily prayer list or offer a sacrifice for this recovery. It’s been going on for a week and a half.
Last week had urgent root canal dentist couldn’t finish since the tooth was badly infected. Have been on antibiotics and heavy pain killers since. Yesterday he was able to finish the root canal but the infection wasn’t cleared up completely.
Still on antibiotics and heavy pain killers. That side of my face is swollen including all the gums around the treated tooth, plus jaw muscle on that side is tight, it’s hard to chew. Normally you have a bad tooth and get a routine root canal and are pretty okay by the next day, but in this case it had to be done because of infection.
Before he finished it yesterday morning, the good news is the pain, infection, and swelling had subsided to a low level, but now the higher pain and swelling have come back it seems due to ongoing infection, plus my tooth now having two root canal procedures all in a week compounding the inflammation to that area already caused by the infection.
The other aspect is right when all this started I also developed a bad sinus infection which also adds pain across my face.
The sinusitis increased the tinnitus in my left ear already spiked due to the perforated ear drum, which my doc on Tuesday said has already somewhat healed and gotten smaller. If you’ve been following my health updates this last year, you know how much by God’s grace I’ve recovered.
Aside from the eardrum which will resolve, seeing an ENT in a couple weeks, this seems to be the final challenge right now, the final hump to get over, to kill these dang bacteria and resolve the pain and swelling, and then, God willing, life will become normal again. All for the greater glory of God.