More Teeth Drama

While Ryan was gone on his last trip we were at a neighbors house and Alli was playing outside-she had been out for less than 1 minute when I hear her screaming. So obviously I hand off Ilene, run out and scoop her up. Her mouth is streaming blood all down her chin. Fortunately her lip was cut, but not bad enough for stitches-we find this out after the kind neighbor and I (her husband and kids have Ilene) go over to yet another kind neighbor's house while she calls her husband who is an ER doc to check and see what he recommends-and since it is cut, but not into the "skin" around the lip it will heal fine without stitches. . Unfortunately her tooth is disgusting looking. When she fell she smashed her mouth on a metal bar and her front tooth got knocked backwards (as in pretty well flat), twisted, and because it was pushed so far back it had cut the gum between her teeth so it was pushed at an angle away from the other center tooth. Yikes! My friend was super concerned-and so was I, but somehow I was able to stay really calm through the whole thing. . My friend asked her friend’s husband who is a dentist who told me the bone above her tooth may have been partially crushed-awesome :(L , but that most likely it will just heal on its own without fixing it. Both people told me to just try to pull it back forward into place which wasn’t happening because although I tried, it was completely stuck. So after getting a blessing from two friends’ husbands in which she was told it would heal as if it never happened we went home to relax and get her to have some popsicles. We make a run to Smiths and get some special popsicles and call and tell Ryan he missed quite the exciting hour :). He has no clue how bad it really is even as I try to describe it and I try to keep Alli knowing that everything will be okay even when I am truly not completely sure myself. Well I call the dentist first thing the next morning and get her in right away only to be told it would have been better for her to come in the night before-failure of a mom!! But I was told by EVERYONE either to just follow up in the morning or not even worry about going in, I felt so bad! So the dentist numbs her mouth (as I am holding her down) and when he gave her the shot to numb so much blood spurted out of the gigantic blood pocket that went across her entire front upper gums and the back of her upper lip- no wonder it was super swollen and she had woken up moaning in the night before she got ibuprofen. Then he proceeded to do the grossest part of the whole thing while we are holding her still because I am sure it hurt like nothing she has (hopefully) ever experienced. He had to pull it back forward so it was straight down and then straighten it all out. When he was finished it was back in place, but much shorter because of how it was positioned in the socket. He wasn't real optimistic that it had "taken" so he told me what to watch for. The most heartbreaking part of that?? She peed while he was positioning, but because she had the block in her mouth holding it open she couldn't tell us she needed to go :(. She was soo sad about that. She is such a brave, strong little girl. And fortunately she tooth "took. However when Ryan got home a few days later, he was sickened by how it looked and that was when it looked soo much better from before. She had really looked like the Simpsons with the swollen upper lip out over the bottom jaw. I am so thankful for the priesthood blessing she received, it was such a calming thing for her. I am also so very thankful for wonderful caring helpful neighbors!! My family was wonderful to help when they found out what was going on, but they were all gone/unreachable when it happened. I am also thankful for a Heavenly Father who is there for us and "gets us through things." I know He is who was keeping me calm because Alli needed me to be calm. I know that He was there with me the whole way through strengthening me and enabling me to make it through everything that needed to be done.

So I started this post a few weeks ago, but didn't finish it so I am adding more! Two weeks after the first incident my dear, sweet Alli was running outside to go take her neighbor/friend a card and she fell on our front porch. I was in getting Ilene ready for bed and Ryan was on the porch with her. He brings her in and sure enough she had pushed that same tooth-which was almost back down to normal and looking GREAT- back up in the socket. I thought for sure they would have to pull it :(. But when I took her for x-rays the next day (I called her dentist and he told me she would be okay with how the tooth was) the tooth was still in the correct spot and the dentist again told me what to watch for and told me that most likely she would need it pulled in the next few months. Well luckilly now-2 months later! it still looks great, hasn't given her pain, and is hopefully still healing so hopefully her teeth are going to all stay in! I am truly grateful for priesthood blessings that give comfort and healing. In the blessing she received the second time she was promised that her tooth would continue to heal. I know that is the reason her tooth is healthy and still in her mouth.
I wish I would have taken some pictures of everything, but I only took some on my phone after Ryan asked me to and they didn't turn out very well and didn't really show much.