Which was “interesting” at best. A lot of good, a ton of bad but overall it was pretty awesome! I hit the ground running as soon as I got into town at 9:30am on Saturday. My mom’s birthday party started at 3pm and I was going to make her cake so I had a really crazy busy morning but I managed to pull it off, cos I’m awesome like that! My mom’s party was great, she loved it. It was nice to see family I hadn’t seen in a while, along with some old friends and of course get shamelessly wasted lol.

Then… On Sunday evening after I recovered from my hangover lol we went out to the bar for a while and that was OK. Monday I headed over to my sisters house for dinner and I had something stuck in my problem child tooth and it was driving me crazy! So I finally managed to dislodge whatever it was and I still had that “pulse” you get with nerve pain but I brushed it off and asked my sister for some Advil. After getting to my mom’s place it was still persisting and I took more painkillers and finally managed to get to sleep that night because we had plans to go to the movies on Tuesday because mom and I wanted to go see Ice Age 3 in 3D. So when I woke up Tuesday morning I was a little swollen and sore but again I blew it off. We went to see the movie which was awesome in case you wondering 🙂 I’d never seen a 3D movie before and it was a lot of fun. After the movie was over, my mom noticed my face had started to balloon out and I headed over to the clinic that was thankfully across the street.

Turns out I have a bacterial infection in the soft tissue(s) in my mouth because that bitch dentist took TOO much of my tooth away leaving my mouth open to exposure to bacteria and deadly infections. So after shelling out $32.00 to see the Doctor since I was in another province and don’t have Ontario coverage anymore (I will get reimbursed from the RAMQ) and then headed over to the pharmacy to get my prescription filled. I was put on a very aggressive round of antibiotics and painkillers. The antibiotics are only meant to be taken once a day but I have to take them 3 times a day because it was that bad. I was given percocets w/acetaminophen for the pain/swelling which didn’t really do anything for me. I shouldn’t be taking prescription narcotics but the pain was SO EPIC that I had no choice. Thankfully after Tuesday night/Wed morning I was OK with Advil save for one time during my tattoo appointment.
Tuesday afternoon:

This was the HORROR I woke up to on Wed morning. (see gallery for the awesome pictures)

I’m not a vain person but I cried when I looked at myself in the mirror. I have never ever in my left ever looked or felt SO hideous! I didn’t want to even leave the house but alas I had a tattoo appointment that afternoon and when I left the house I was wearing big sunglasses and a hoodie to hide my face best as I could. Tim was appalled when I walked in there. He says to me “what the fuck happened to you!?” so I told him that I did have an infection to which he said he wasn’t touching me until I told him I was on meds for it to which he relented thank God. So that kind of ruined my tattoo appointment because I felt like utter crap, looked like a freak and wasn’t feeling well because of the antibiotics but I tell you the painkillers really helped during my tattoo appointment especially since I had part of the underside of my arm tattooed. So needless to say that didn’t suck too bad lol.

I didn’t do much for the rest of my vacation except hang out with my best friend who doesn’t make me feel self conscious and thankfully the antibiotics had started to kick in so the swelling was getting better by that point and I was able to eat and talk better after that. Then Dustin came home from camp in Kentucky and I went to my nieces soccer game and Friday morning we left to come back to Montreal.
Friday we relaxed and didn’t do much because everyone was hot & tired. Saturday we headed off to St. Denis street and much to my surprise just for laughs was on and that was a lot of fun! We couldn’t go to see any shows because we couldn’t afford them for one thing and Dustin was with us and he’s not 18 yet.

Then on Sunday we headed off to Pointe-à-Callière, the Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History which I have been to before but Dustin & mom really seemed to enjoy it. Aside from that we didn’t do much, we mostly wanted to relax & veg out. It was too hot and muggy to do everything we wanted to do but it was still fun just the same!

So I got one of 5 ultrasounds booked, of course the most urgent one isn’t being booked until the middle of 2010 which is INSANE! I talked to one technician today and he was really nice and managed to get me an appointment for Sept as opposed to November which rocked and then I had to call the vascular clinic for the other ultrasounds I needed and she too was super nice and really helpful and felt really bad that she’s so booked but told me to send in my requisition just the same and she told me she would do her best to see when she could squeeze me in.
I’m also sending it to other hospitals in hopes that I can get in sooner as opposed to later. She was pretty pissed that my doctor left it up to me to make these appointments when they should be doing it themselves. That might had been more helpful since the Doctor obviously has more pull and could *maybe* get me in sooner but c’est la vie! I called the clinic today to see when I could come in and see the results of my blood tests and that’s not until August 3rd so that kind of sucks…
I have to find a new dentist ASAP so I can get my problem child tooth pulled out right away so that I don’t get re-infected like it just did. Thankfully I was accepted into McGill’s teaching clinic and while it takes MUCH longer to get treatment (up to 3hrs for a filling) the considerably HUGE price difference makes it a million times worth it. My jaw dropped numerous times when I was being told how little it costs and just how much some dentists are charging for dental care! So once your in, your in which rocks! I need a lot of dental work, which sucks. I need to have one of my front teeth pulled which DOESN’T make me happy AT ALL! But thank God for dental implants! I need to get a partial for the teeth I recently had pulled because even though McGill is considerably more affordable its still going to cost me about a thousand dollars for the implant because you need to get a crown first and then the implant after that. So I’m looking at about 2 years before I’m all caught up so I’m going to seek out care at a private clinic that I’ve been eying up in conjunction with McGill simply because this private clinic isn’t that costly and it will save time because having to take that much time off of work won’t make much of a difference if I’m not getting my hours in to pay for said dental bills. Thank God I have a visa! I’m also filing a complaint with the CDA because what she did to me was WRONG!