Well shit...
Remember that abscessed tooth from the beginning of the month? Well, it's back. The penicillin killed most of it but left a little hard knot right above the tooth. Since it sat there for over 2 weeks without changing I was hoping it would just lurk until my appointment at the dental clinic came around (not until mid-Jan). Unfortunately yesterday morning it started to swell ever so slightly. It continued to grow and by the time I finished dinner last night it hurt like a motherfucker and had doubled in size.
I went ahead and went to the hospital...again. This time instead of penicillin she gave me a script for a 10 day course of clindamycin which she said worked better on abscesses. I wondered at the time why she didn't just prescribe it last time. Having just come back from getting the script filled I now know why - just under $100 for 40 pills. I almost started to cry. I went ahead and put it on my Walmart credit card. She gave me a double dose of the meds before I left the hospital but not the vicodin, which she also gave me a script for. Good thing I still had half of the last script left otherwise I would have been in a world of hurt last night. I still didn't sleep much and actually took another dose 3 hours early. I took a vicodin about an hour ago and it's not doing that much good so I just took another half.
This sucks. My face isn't exaggeratedly swollen like last time but the pressure is really painful. I called in today (of course) and I'll probably call in tomorrow, and maybe the day after. I can be absent up to 3 consecutive days and still only get one penalty point and I have the sick time accumulated. What the hell, I'm going to get written up for excessive absenteeism (this will be 5 times in 6 mos) so I might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. Meanwhile I think I'll suck down a can of soup and try to be unconscious for awhile.
I went ahead and went to the hospital...again. This time instead of penicillin she gave me a script for a 10 day course of clindamycin which she said worked better on abscesses. I wondered at the time why she didn't just prescribe it last time. Having just come back from getting the script filled I now know why - just under $100 for 40 pills. I almost started to cry. I went ahead and put it on my Walmart credit card. She gave me a double dose of the meds before I left the hospital but not the vicodin, which she also gave me a script for. Good thing I still had half of the last script left otherwise I would have been in a world of hurt last night. I still didn't sleep much and actually took another dose 3 hours early. I took a vicodin about an hour ago and it's not doing that much good so I just took another half.
This sucks. My face isn't exaggeratedly swollen like last time but the pressure is really painful. I called in today (of course) and I'll probably call in tomorrow, and maybe the day after. I can be absent up to 3 consecutive days and still only get one penalty point and I have the sick time accumulated. What the hell, I'm going to get written up for excessive absenteeism (this will be 5 times in 6 mos) so I might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. Meanwhile I think I'll suck down a can of soup and try to be unconscious for awhile.