Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Cooper's tooth problem

Cooper told us he had a toothache on a Friday so I took him to the dentist. They took x-rays and told us he had an abscess. They gave us a prescription and told me to bring him back the next Monday. Well Saturday morning he came into our room at 3:30 a.m. and said his eye hurt. We turned on the light and saw this.
We called a dentist in our ward who met us on a Saturday at his office. He was planning on pulling the tooth because it was a baby tooth. So Nick and I went and tried to get Cooper to sit in the chair. He went absolutely crazy. He was screaming loud enough to shake the pictures on the wall. He was so tense we couldn't even make him breathe the gas. After 20 minutes of pure screaming the dentist said he thought it would be better to take him to an ER for IV antibiotics. He said it is probably better he doesn't take it out until some of the swelling had gone down. So off to the ER we went. He got the antibiotics and we were out of there pretty quick.

Monday comes along, which I forgot to mention we were supposed to bless Noah that Sunday but with Cooper still looking like the elephant man as Nick called him we put it off until next fast Sunday. So as I was saying that Monday Nick took him to a Pediatric Dentist who gave Cooper a cup of "juice" to drink (Liquid demerol and apple juice.) Well he fell asleep within 15 minutes and they pulled the big tooth. Drama, Drama....

Aren't we so glad we are going to have a dentist in the family. Uncle Jordon is going to regret he ever went to dental school when he sees what the Bradshaw's have for him to fix. We love you Uncle Jordon!

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