OK now I need more info...what the hell happened??
It was a really scary thing Lori. This is going to be long....
Mike started out with an abscess just before the 1st. He went to the dentist who said he needed a root canal and referred him to a specialist (saying that the tooth had an extra root and also had a crown on it so it needed to be done by a specialist to preserve the tooth). Anyway that was on the 4th of Jan and his new appointment with the specialist was set for the 7th. By the time he got to the specialist his whole side of his face blew up (it was so swollen the skin was shiny from being pulled). The doctor told him it was a really bad infection, and that he had never seen one this bad in all his years. He also said it would take about 3 visits to complete the root canal and stop the infection. Mike's second visit was scheduled for the 10th. By the time he got to that one the whole underside of his chin was blown up (looked like a tumor). The doctor told him he would need to lance the area and ended up draining 6cc's of fluid from the site and sent him on his way. He was miserable the whole weekend. Fast forward to Monday...I get up early (5am) so it's very dark in the room. I left for work and at about 8:30am I got back to my desk and I have a frantic voice mail from Mike saying he's bleeding from his mouth and can't get it to stop, that there's blood pouring out of him and the doctor has told him to come in. I call him and he can barely talk, he's screaming into the phone that he can't get the blood to stop coming out and feels like he's going to pass out. He said he was almost at the doctor's. I told him I would meet him there at the docs office. I drove there and Mike was not there. I tried calling him and although he was answering the phone, in a panic he was also pushing the mute button and I could not hear him. I hung up and called again and again and again and the same thing was happening. I text him "where are you" and he text back "help me" "find me". I was seriously wigging out in the parking lot. I kept trying to call him and then finally he was able to answer. He was trying to tell me where he was (he pulled over, he was on the edge of unconsciousness) but I couldn't make out what he was saying. I was freaking out on the phone and finally figured out what he was saying. He was 4 buildings down the street from where I was. I flew down there to find him slumped over the steering wheel. Blood everywhere. I put him in my car and flew back to the doctors. They rushed him into a room. It was sheer panic there. We looked so bad a person at the office asked if we were just in a car wreck. Nurses and doctors were in and out for over 30 minutes and finally Mike came out. He was white as a ghost. The doctor explained that the type of infection he had an effect similar to cancer. Once oxygen touches it, it spreads like wildfire. This infection (which he called a bone infection) created a huge pocket that had originally filled with the fluid he drained...now filled with blood. While Mike was sleeping he probably rolled onto this side of his face and caused this filled pocket to push down on a major blood vessel and rupture it. Once ruptured it "bled out" and wouldn't stop. The doctor had to suture this rupture and pack it. He then sent us off to an oral surgeon to have an emergency extraction done.
As we were driving home, Mike said...I'm sorry about the house, I got blood everywhere. He wasn't kidding. It looked as if someone had been murdered in our bedroom. There was a huge pool of blood on the bed and pillows. Blood all over the two bathroom floors, counters, sinks, walls and mirrors. There was a blood trail in the driveway even. It was awful. When we finally able to pick up his car from where we left it there was blood everywhere in there too, the door, the windshield, the dash and the steering wheel.
It was a very scary ordeal and I wouldn't wish what we went through on anyone. It definitely has made us look at things a bit differently.
