Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Toothless and Tired

Today, Isabella had FIVE teeth extracted at the dentist's office. She was supposed to have six extracted but we pulled one last week that was loose! She was very nervous but never cried about the procedure. When we arrived at the dentist's office, they gave her some "silly juice" to drink to relax her and then we had to wait 20 minutes for it to take effect on her. She was totally fine until about 5 minutes into it, and she became incredibly smiley, wobbly and relaxed.
Brad had to carry her back to the chair because she was just like dead weight! They put a monitor on her little toes and then, put a mask on her giving her nitrous oxide to relax some more and she quickly faded into her "happy place"! It was time for us to leave, but I quickly got emotional leaving her alone when she seemed totally unresponsive to me. It reminded me of what we went through with Elijah during his surgery mishap and I became unexpectedly very nervous! The lady explained that they do 4-5 extractions every morning which calmed me some, but I couldn't stop the tears even though I kept thinking, "Seriously, Kimberly! They are just pulling her teeth!" It was over fairly quickly, and they carried her out to us good as new, just with 5 less teeth!
It was hard to see what she looked like because her mouth was stuffed with gauze to stop the bleeding, but I still thought she looked precious! We drove home and Daddy made her a comfy place on the couch and then went back to work. A little later, Granna came by and brought her a gigantic balloon that sings a Christmas song, some pretty flowers and some Christmas M&Ms!
Showing Granna "all the holes" in her little mouth:
And even Elijah got some M&Ms!
She is doing well now and sound asleep! Now, let's hope her top teeth will come out on their own!

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