Update...
7:30 P.M.
Sheesh, what a long day. On the bright side, a lot of the swelling subsided, though now we can clearly see the damage to her teeth (mainly just one tooth, but another one also looks a little displaced). I still cringe to look at her.
Fortunately, she's been acting pretty normal. She only complains about the pain if she happens to bump her mouth on the couch or her own arm as she plays around the living room. If it wasn't for that fact, the remaining swelling, and the obvious damage to her teeth requiring her to eat nothing but foods like applesauce and spaghettios, you'd think nothing happened to her.
Still cannot get through to the dentist. I guess some secretary that's supposed to enter the right code at the end of the day Friday into the phone to activate the answering service goofed. At least, that's the theory. Heh. My mom used to work for a company in Atlanta that used such a system, so she knows how those things work. After I describing the foul-up I'm experiencing to her, she's like, "Sounds just like what happens when someone's not paying attention entering the codes." I dunno what that all means exactly, but I do know that someone screwed up. I'd like to think it's not a normal thing.
Had to get some things done at the church today, too. But as I drove to the church, I actually starting thinking about all I have to be thankful for in spite of all this. There were a couple of people in the ER last night with far worse issues than Kailyn's displaced tooth. There were a lot of police involved with one of the patients, too...I'm guessing the patient was a victim of some sort of violent crime. Another patient was an elderly lady who apparently makes frequent trips to the ER. Another was a woman in her 30s was there who'd had a MAJOR skin reaction (swelling/rash) to something she thought was an insect bite, but the same reaction has plagued several of her co-workers at her job. From what we could tell, she'd been there since 3:30 that afternoon just waiting to see if it was anything serious. When we left, I believe she still didn't know.
What's happened to Kailyn is just an childhood accident of inconvenient timing. It's not a major trauma. It's not a serious illness. It's just mouth injury. As long as that's the worst thing to happen to us, I can still celebrate. Heck, I should still be able to find reason to celebrate amidst something far worse, should that happen one day...
Sure, I'm frustrated with the dentist office and the fact that my daughter was in so much pain (and the fact that this is far from over)...but all I can think about is Isaac getting ready to kill his son and calling it worship (since I heard TWO messages on this passage in the past 2 weeks). Such strong faith in God amidst a tough situation...could you have imagined living with that kind of a choice had God required Abraham to go through with it? Wow... That's not an exhaustive (or even very accurate) look at that story...just something encouraging about it floating in my head right now...
If he could 'worship' at that moment,' so can I right now...
Sheesh, what a long day. On the bright side, a lot of the swelling subsided, though now we can clearly see the damage to her teeth (mainly just one tooth, but another one also looks a little displaced). I still cringe to look at her.
Fortunately, she's been acting pretty normal. She only complains about the pain if she happens to bump her mouth on the couch or her own arm as she plays around the living room. If it wasn't for that fact, the remaining swelling, and the obvious damage to her teeth requiring her to eat nothing but foods like applesauce and spaghettios, you'd think nothing happened to her.
Still cannot get through to the dentist. I guess some secretary that's supposed to enter the right code at the end of the day Friday into the phone to activate the answering service goofed. At least, that's the theory. Heh. My mom used to work for a company in Atlanta that used such a system, so she knows how those things work. After I describing the foul-up I'm experiencing to her, she's like, "Sounds just like what happens when someone's not paying attention entering the codes." I dunno what that all means exactly, but I do know that someone screwed up. I'd like to think it's not a normal thing.
Had to get some things done at the church today, too. But as I drove to the church, I actually starting thinking about all I have to be thankful for in spite of all this. There were a couple of people in the ER last night with far worse issues than Kailyn's displaced tooth. There were a lot of police involved with one of the patients, too...I'm guessing the patient was a victim of some sort of violent crime. Another patient was an elderly lady who apparently makes frequent trips to the ER. Another was a woman in her 30s was there who'd had a MAJOR skin reaction (swelling/rash) to something she thought was an insect bite, but the same reaction has plagued several of her co-workers at her job. From what we could tell, she'd been there since 3:30 that afternoon just waiting to see if it was anything serious. When we left, I believe she still didn't know.
What's happened to Kailyn is just an childhood accident of inconvenient timing. It's not a major trauma. It's not a serious illness. It's just mouth injury. As long as that's the worst thing to happen to us, I can still celebrate. Heck, I should still be able to find reason to celebrate amidst something far worse, should that happen one day...
Sure, I'm frustrated with the dentist office and the fact that my daughter was in so much pain (and the fact that this is far from over)...but all I can think about is Isaac getting ready to kill his son and calling it worship (since I heard TWO messages on this passage in the past 2 weeks). Such strong faith in God amidst a tough situation...could you have imagined living with that kind of a choice had God required Abraham to go through with it? Wow... That's not an exhaustive (or even very accurate) look at that story...just something encouraging about it floating in my head right now...
If he could 'worship' at that moment,' so can I right now...
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