Dentist Appointment

Ally had to have a couple cavities filled on Monday. Because of how she acted when they were trying to clean her teeth, the dentist suggested she be sedated for the work. We got to the dentist office bright and early Monday morning. Since we had to do this with Andrew I knew what to expect. They have them drink their 'sleepy medicine' which Ally took very well. Then we went out to the waiting room to wait for it to work it's magic. She was playing with the trains when I noticed she started tripping a little bit. She then sat on my lap to read books and watch Monsters vs. Aliens. And then, she was out. We took her back in the room and they started on her teeth. The dentist filled the cavity on the one side and then left the room to give her jaw a break and see some other patients. When he came back he informed me that the other tooth that needed to be filled had infection so bad it had gone down into the bone so he would need to pull the tooth and put in a spacer. I was a little nervous because Ally had started to stir when the dentist was with the other patients. She did amazing! He pulled the tooth and put in the spacer and she didn't even budge. They gave her the tooth and put us in a recovery room. She was quite mean coming out of the sedation. She just wanted to go home but had to have some water and a Popsicle before we could leave. All in all it wasn't too bad. Much better then when we did it with Andrew. He never fully went out and kept trying to fight the work. It's so hard to see your kids 'drugged' up and out of it. Thankfully Ally mostly slept and didn't try to fight the medicine. She was really happy the next morning when she woke up and found that the tooth fairy had come and brought her $2.50. She was in our room before 7 a.m. telling us all about the two dollars and 'penny' the tooth fairy had left her. At least the tooth fairy visited, made it all worth it and better.