Callie's tooth

Well, when it rains it pours!! We just can't seem to get a break around here in the Huber household. Callie fell at the playground Thursday night and bumped her tooth on the monkey bars. I took her to the Pediatric Dentist today for an x-ray and evaluation. Her tooth #E (center right tooth) is chipped and cracked. There is a vertical crack that runs up to or very close to the nerve of her tooth. She will more than likely need a pulpotomy (baby root canal) and crown on the tooth, IF it's even savable at all. If the crack is more severe than it appears on the x-ray she may need to have the tooth pulled all together.

My heart has been very heavy over the past few days thinking about the possibility of her not having a tooth there for the next 5 years. Ron and I were discussing our "woes" and feeling very down. Considering Maosn's eye, Callie's tooth... etc. Then we started to talk about the trials of close friends around us and in our ward. And how in comparison what we were experiencing was actually not as bad as we thought. We have each other, we have relatively healthy and happy children. Life really is good, it just throws you curve balls and punches once in a while.

Callie doesn't like ANY doctor office. So why would the dentist be any different? She did ok for the appointment, but didn't like it. After the treatment plan was determined the doctor gave us a Prescription for antibiotics and pain (to prevent an infection). He also recommended a soft food diet until we could get her back in to fix the tooth.

This little climber of mine is stressing me out big time. I went into nursery today to help because I'm paranoid she is going to bump that tooth again before we have a chance to fix it. 

This picture doesn't do justice to how bad the crack and chip is. The whole Lingual wall of her tooth is practically gone. She hasn't complained at all of pain so far (that's good. I'm really hoping her nerve isn't involved) We were still able to have a Girls night out with Maryann while the boys were at fathers and sons!

Shopping with Maryann "Mom, Can I ride the Alligator?"