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Monday, June 15, 2020

My Dental Implement Ordeal II

This post was supposed to post on 2013, but it was somehow on draft, and I post it now to record one of my darkest period in my life.

As I mentioned in my last post that I was recovering. But things turned down hill a week ago after I went to a kite flying session with my daughter. In the night of the day, my half throat, ear and somewhere in side my cheek I think angrily inflamed. My ear was full and my half head and throat were in pain. I was totally in panic and didn't know what was going on.

Night time was most miserable because the fullness of my ear made me feel suffocating and awoke. The ear was so bad till the point that I heard ringing sound.

I went from A & E to ENT specialist, all the doctors told me that everything was fine, my sinus and throat was health and the fullness of ear will go away. I took all the medicine that I have never taken in my life such as nose spray, steroid tablets, decongestant and antihistamine. My condition was sometime ok and sometime really bad. The worst thing is I am extreme tired, but I cannot sleep because of the unbearable uncomfortable in my left ear.

In the middle of the sleepless nights, I stood in my balcony and looking into sky and wondering why all this happened. Is God trying to send me a message? I have never had such difficult time in my life. I really wanted to just jump down from the balcony if without my family and my daughters. Living was meaningless with such horrible disease.

What was really went wrong? Looking back, I was so simple minded to jump on the dental implement bandwagon. My implement doctor is a very nice and thrusting surgeon. But she never explained to me in detail what the surgery was like. I don't even heard the term "Sinus Lift" from her, She just told me that she will put some bone under the sinus which I thought was the bone under the missing teeth. I asked her what will happen if something is wrong. She just simply said that if there were infection, the surgery will fail and everything will be back to my current status. I never thought that she will enter my sinus and actually broke a bit of my sinus membrane during surgery. Only after the surgery was finished and I sit on the surgery bed that  I realized that I made a mistake that I should not go such a hush treatment. But it was too late.

All along I have some nose issue. I am allergic in the morning and will wake up sneeze a bit. But the allergic reaction usually last for half an hour. In the day, I normally have no problem if I didn't touch dusty things or suddenly go in and out of cold and hot places. I do have three times feeling a bit of ear fullness. But they went away very quickly within 2 to 3 days.

I never expected that these problems went full balloon when after my Sinus Lift procedure. I have non stopping running nose, drainage from mouth and ear fullness. I didn't know what happened and was scared to death. Initially, my doctors thought was infection and gave me so much antibiotics. Only till very late they realized it was actually some kinds of sever allergic reaction.