Anthony's first visit to the Dentist :0/

Hi everyone, for those of you that are new to my blogs let me welcome you with open arms and tell you to go check out my blogs from the start.  What? yeah I want you to read, hey look it's not a lot and I'm sure you'll be glad you did after reading them.  How do I know you'll like them?  Please, have I ever lied to you before?  Ok then go read them anyway...

Yes, I have issues, but then do't we all?

My blogs were mainly created for me to talk about my youngest child, who was born with Down Syndrome, hence the name My Holland Hugs (again read the first few blogs to know all the details of the name and such). My little Angel is the light of my life. I couldn't imagine my life without him.

A few weeks ago I was at work and I get this call.  "Hi hunny, Baby fell and I can't get him to stop crying.  His mouth is bleeding I think he cracked a tooth." Me, "WHAT?"  (Yes folks, he was calm on the phone when he called me). I asked him what happened..."What happened?" Him, "Cyndi was watching him while I was putting clothes into the dryer and then I hear him screaming. I guess he fell and hit his mouth on the floor and now his it's bleeding but he won't let me look at it and he won't stop crying." Me, "Ok let me tell my boss and I'll be right there". Sent message to my boss, Anthony fell and is bleeding I need to go now." "Ok."

I left, went to the laundry mat when the family was and picked up Anthony. He has almost stopped crying but you can tell he's in pain. I start calling I don't know how many dentists trying to find one that could see us now and that takes Medical and can deal with a Special Needs child.  I found one, doesn't take Medical but they take IEHP.  Ok fine, the card is at home.  I sent a message to another Mom that lives kinda far from me, asking her if she knew any and she thankfully did.  I called them and they told me to come in now, I'm an hour away and told him to give me a little bit of time but I would be there as soon as I could.

I then take the baby home, get his cards, change and get him ready to go and by this time the rest of the family has shown up. We leave, drive to West Covina (for those of you in this area you know that driving from Rialto to West Covina can take about an hour without traffic and this is around 2 in the afternoon, the beginning of traffic time). We made it there, and waited.  My son just loves fish so he was watching the fish tank most of the time. The Children's Dental Funzone takes Medical and work with you if there is something Medical doesn't pay for.

It's a really nice place. There are 2 areas, one for normal services, all the chairs are next to each other to give the kids comfort in knowing there are other kids like them. On the other side is the more private rooms, for those that need to be restrained or knocked out.  Yes I said restrained or knocked out.  A small child will not just sit there and let someone they don't know touch their mouth and to do anything where it involves touching them? Hell no! Not gonna happen!

We talked with the dentist for a few minutes and he gave us a run down of what he needed to do to even get a look at the tooth/teeth that are bleeding. We could wait a few days for him to call in a gas specialist for Anthony to be knocked out or we could have him restrained and get it done now.  Anthony was in so much pain I agreed to have it done now and if we couldn't handle it we could always stop and wait the few days.  We always have that option.

We waited another hour for him to have a room ready and in we go.

The room. Very small and I don't mean small like the normal dentist rooms small, I mean this is almost a closet room small.  There was the dentist chair, 2 stools (dentist and his assist.) a sink, small shelf with DVD player on it. In the corner was a box type thing for the parent to sit on and that's it. The room was full.  the child retrains (Child Restrains Story) was already in there in different sizes.  They kept the small one there and moved the larger ones to another room.

Now your looking at this and going she let them do that to her kid?  What choice did I really have?  I can't stand him to be in pain and sorry he was in pain.  The tooth after they got the x-rays of it was cracked all the way to the nerve, so as a person who has teeth, you know that when that nerve is exposed, it HURTS. Now your 2 1/2 and can't talk or tell anyone it hurts, I had to do it.  They were able to remove the tooth with him crying the whole time.  I felt so bad and wanted to cry myself but held it together for the little guy.  Nic on the other hand was falling apart and kept walking out of the room to take a breath.  Anthony pulled through it, lost his first tooth and is now doing fine.

We feel bad he had to have that much trauma done but he's fine now.