Tooth infection and chemo are no good!

Well on Saturday the 20th of feb I woke up with toothache by the time saturday afternoon nap was over the pain was unbearable. My wife called the emergency dental but they were closing at five and weren't willing to stay late (fucking nice eh!). So off to urgent care I went I waited only an hour or so and they had me in to see a doctor which was good because I heard some people say they had been there over 3 hrs but I did tell the triage nurse I was on chemo so that helped. The doc said he couldn't tell if there was infection but that most likely it was infected. He gave me some Penicillin and tylenol 3's. I filled the prescriptions and started popping pills saturday night. The pain actually worsened by sunday and man I mean constant pain. Monday I had went to my dentist he had a look and said it was an infection and that I had 2 options root canal or remove the tooth. I needed to get the okay from the cancer center doctors to do anything. In the meantime my infection was swelling rather quickly by monday night my face had balooned out. I called the oncall hemotologist but as long as there was no fever they told me to wait it out. Tuesday morning my face was huge but they didn't want me to come in unless I had a fever. Finally after about my fourth call that day with a few from my wife they agreed to have me come in and check my blood. I had my blood taken and then the nurse came out to see me and I could tell she was surprised at my face. 5 mins later the hemotologist was out she took one look at my face and was like you need to be admitted. I was like thats why I've been calling for the last 2 days. She examined me and by then had gotten my bloodwork back which was good already. So now she wasn't so worried out my infection but said it needed to be cleaned up before my next chemo. She sent me to the dental clinic right in the hospital where they examined me. Dr Karla squeezed some of the infection out OUCH! but that did give me immediate relief. I had 2 options a root canal or tooth removal. She told me they recommend the tooth being pulled because a root canal there is a chance that some infection could be left over. Left over infection would be no good and if I started my chemo with some infection left over in my mouth it could explode into my body when my blood counts are down. So I decided no chances and after all it's just a tooth. So on friday they yanked her out.

Otherwise I've been very tired through this last chemo. I've done alot of sleeping which is ok because my body has enjoyed all the sleep. Let's keep are fingers crossed that this will be my final chemo. I'm getting tired of this chemo crap but I'll do what it takes.

I'd like to send my prayers to are friend that lost his mother to cancer last week. I send out my deepest smypathies to you and your family.