Girl Power. . . .

Miss Harmony and I drove to Filmore on Saturday
to meet mom and Peggi at "Larry's"
(for those who remember my
boycott, I did not spend any
money $$ Harmony paid)
to make a "deal"
a "swap" a whatever clandestine
sounding word you
can come up with.

Mom and Peggi got
confused. Peggi thinks
she's a LOSER and
mom thinks the world
can #$@*-off

These are the beauties I went
for. Pommies,
my favorite fruit.
I try to get to So. Utah
in October to get these
for myself.
This year it didn't happen.
Mom (being the world's best mom)
called me and asked if I
wanted to "meet" her for
a "drop" to which I promptly
said "Hell Yes!"
It wouldn't be Thanksgiving
without Dixie Fruit Salad.
(Mandi, Bev & Kendall let me
know and I can drop some
off for you- ummmmm)
There are more that this
picture indicates.

On to Part II of my
weekend and "girl power"

I had to go to the endodontist last week for a "re-treatment" of a root canal on tooth #8 (front tooth on the right) This tooth is capped with a "bridge" so I didn't want anything to go wrong. I've had a problem with this for 3-1/2 years!! Last December I had an infection and my Dentist give me an antibiotic to clear it up and said I needed to go the the specialist to have it taken care of. Well, it took me this long (an a huge pus-pocket that throbbed like hell) to get an appointment. He drained the pus-pocket and made an appointment for the "re-treat." I told him I have some "issues" so he give me a Valium to take before I come and we scheduled an anesthesiologist so I could be sedated for the procedure. All seemed to go well, I went home Wednesday afternoon and "slept it off" I didn't go to work on Thursday because my eyelids weighed about 80 lbs -EACH! Well, Friday afternoon after work I was having some "throbbing" and I was taking some pain meds prescribed for Boyd, but I didn't care - I hurt. Harmony had to listen to me the entire trip to Filmore and home about my "face hurting" I couldn't even say where it hurt. I told her I was real tired because I couldn't get to sleep because if hurt too bad. We returned home and Harmony helped me string some Christmas lights (that's for another post) I turned down the chance to go to dinner with Travis and just went and laid down in bed . . . at 5:30 in the afternoon. (I couldn't have cooked if I wanted to because that morning when I turned on the oven to bake some items for breakfast, my oven wouldn't work - the stove yes, oven no - but that's yet another post) Boyd left that evening to assist in a service project in the neighborhood to do some painting and didn't come home until about midnight. This is what he came home to.



( it got worse than this, my lower cheeks along the jawline got all puffy, and up to my eyes)

I was sobbing and he said "I had no idea it was this bad, I thought you were being a "pantie waste" and just wanted sympathy (I've been know to be dramatic - ha) I made him give me a blessing, and wow, he has a direct link to the Big Guy, because after that the pain subsided and I was able to sleep for about 4-5 hours. Sunday morning I called the endodontist and and described my face and he said to go to the ER. So away we went. I am so thankful for kind peeps at the hospital. They give me lots of good pain meds and a dose of antibiotic and warm blankets and lots of kinds words. So by today, some of the swelling had gone down, and I went to work. This morning another pus-pocket burst and drained and it was disgusting!! I've had a terrible taste in the back of my throat that I'm sure is my sinuses draining, but this one was in along my gums and I could spit it out - can you say GROSS!! So, that's that. I will post later about my lights on the deck - LOVE THEM and my fabulous repairman (Oven is fixed - Yeah)