Root canal?! Piece of cake!

 If Logan's face looks a little lop-sided in these pictures....it's because half his face is numb! This is another true-to-Logan-form story. This boy has good teeth. Big teeth. Last October he had his first ever cavity at age nine. It was a VERY big cavity. I have no idea how it got so big so fast. We go to the dentist every six months. Anyways, the dentist was a little worried about it being such a deep cavity and thought it may cause Logan problems in the future. He did tell us a time or two over the last two months that it hurt when it got cold things on it. Then the past two weeks he said his "cheek" hurt a lot. And the last two days he held his cheek, woke up at night in pain, and was vocal about it hurting. When Logan gets to that point it means major pain. Yesterday we got him into our pediatric dentist.They gave us an antibiotic to calm any existing infection that may be under the cavity, and sent us with a referal to an endontist. (Root canal dentist.) We were lucky enough to get an appointment today. It took us one hour to get there in a blizzard.

Darin met us there. I know myself all too well. As the dentist explained the procedure and the options I started to feel sick and before I knew it I almost passed out. I made it back to the waiting area and sat on a couch while the room spun around and all the voices were muffled. I hate dentists and hospitals and it's ten times worse when they are monkeying with my kids!! I headed home and Darin stayed with Logan. Logan was a champ, just like with all other medical procedures. The dentist was shocked at how infected and inflamed the nerves and tissue were under that filling. He said no kid could last this long with this kind of pain. (Kind of like no kid can have a broken foot for two weeks before his parents figure out it's broken, and no toddler endures severe burns and skin grafts with almost no crying, and no kid will ice-skate for hours while his ankles bleed and he doesn't say anything.) No kid, except Logan! He ate a huge dinner, was running around as soon as he got home, and had his finger in his mouth trying to feel the new filling. Pretty much how everyone acts right after having a root canal, right? Way to be tough Buddy!