My Kurt is okay....

Good morning everyone. I just wanted to drop you a note and let you all know that Kurt is okay. He has an extremely severe tooth abscess...he hit his tooth a couple of weeks ago playing hacky sack..he said he bent down ..didn't realize the chair was so close and whacked his tooth...he said it hurt at the time..but hasn't bothered him since....except for feeling a little loose last week...well..i guess it killed the tooth....and when it became loose bacteria built up inside the hollow area and developed an abscess. This past weekend when I was there he said he hadn't been feeling good...but so much is going around...I just assumed it was the flu coming on or something. Wednesday he called and said his tooth was hurting..told me what had happened and what he thought was causing the trouble..he went and saw the campus nurse and she put him on antibiotics and some pain meds and said he would need to get into the dentist within the the next day or two....well,..it got bad faster than we could get him in to the dentist....He was taken to the emergency room in horrible pain...thank goodness Jenna is at school with him.....they gave him a shot of Dilaudid.. which is apparently a "Hydromorphine injection" let's you know exactly how much pain he was in doesn't it! Anyway..he was then taken to an oral surgeon where they drilled a hole in his tooth and drained the abscess. My poor Kurt..you should have seen him...he was literally unrecognizable his face was so swollen and disfigured. I was shocked when I saw him. He was running a high fever, vomiting..it was awful. After the abscess was drained and he slept for the afternoon he was starting to improve thank God. He has to continue on pain meds and antibiotics and as soon as the infection is completely gone and the tooth is "dry" he has to have a root canal!

Thank you all so much for your comments here and for your emails! You are all such wonderful and caring friends! Big hugs to you. Now I'm off to play catch up! Doreen