Blaine Gets Kinged

Yesterday morning, Blaine, his daddy, and I were up and at 'em, headed to the dentist's office at 7 a.m. to get kinged. (that's what he kept calling his crown) Our boy is such a trooper! He never cried or acted scared. They called his name, and he went on back there...without us, but he did take Cowboy. They told us once they had him settled, we could go back and get a peek of him. (Just ignore me in the reflection. They didn't want him to know we were there.)

There was good news and bad news. The bad news is the one we thought would be filled was too far gone for that, so it had to be crowned. And the one we thought would be crowned was too far gone for even that, so it had to be pulled. When they brought this out to me, I almost puked! Look at those roots!

The good news is they thought they would have to do a nerve treatment because the infection had reached the nerve, but it hadn't. It hadn't gotten that far, so he did not have to have a nerve treatment.

After about an hour and a half, they called us back. We heard that he did well, only got anxious at the very beginning, but as soon as they gassed him, he was fine. They gave us our instructions (and our bill), and we waited for our boy. When he came out, he was very loopy! They told us we needed to either carry him or hold him steady while he walked. When I went to pick him up, he said, "I need to walk. It's the walk I can't resist." (ha!) And he needed to use the restroom. His daddy held tightly to him and took him to relieve himself.

Then we got him in the car to head home. He decided he needed a smoothie from YogoBerry. The doctor told him the more cold stuff he drank or ate, the better for healing. They had already given him some ice cream after the procedure. While we sat in the drive through of YogoBerry, with a very loopy boy, I took this video. We got him home and settled in, and he killed the smoothie quickly. He said he felt okay, but he said he was 'numb and wobbly'. After that smoothie, a blender and half of smoothies made at home, and FOUR bowls of Malt-O-Meal, we had our boy with the bright eyes back. With his king he is very proud of. He kept going to look in the mirror and smiling wide to see if he could see it. He wants people to be able to see it, he said.

They gave him some meds to make him forget. It seems to have worked, for the most part anyway. He asked why they didn't pull his tooth. I showed him his tooth. Then he told me he had an itch, so he scratched it, and one of the ladies told him if he did it again, she was going to take Cowboy away from him. That upset me, but I'm not sure how much of it is true, so I'm going to let it go.

He has watched the video several times and thinks it's hysterical. He has complained of no pain at all, and says he's not numb anymore.

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers for our boy. All is well, and he has been kinged.