Teeth, Pumpkins and Trains....Oh My!!

Well, lets start off with TEETH....on Friday morning I was brushing Elijah's teeth for school when I noticed a tooth coming up behind his front bottom tooth without him having lost any teeth yet. I was a bit startled and had not heard of this happening without a tooth falling out first. So I called my sister who is a dental hygenist and she said its normal, but that we want to play with the baby tooth and try and loosen it and get it out so he doesn't have to have it pulled out. So when Elijah got home from school I told him we needed to remove that front tooth as soon as possible or he would have to go to the dentist and get a shot to numb his mouth so they could pull the baby tooth. Well, when you mention a shot around elijah you are bound to get a reaction!!! He was like "we are getting this tooth out today". I told him it wasn't going to happen today because it was BARELY loose!! He insisted and wouldn't let me stop yanking on it. First he had me get him an apple to bite on. That didn't help any. He then wanted to know what else could be done. I told him we could tie string to it and then to a door and slam the door. He looked very scared and said "no, thats ok". So we left it alone for about 5 minutes. Then in comes elijah with some dental floss. He wanted me to tie it around his tooth and yank with all my might. So I sat him down on the chair....he held on to the chair for dear life....and I started yanking on it. Soon we heard a pop and then some blood started flowing. I knew we had done something. He used paper towel and just kept twisting it and soon it was just hanging on by a thread (or should I say root). And then alas....out it popped. He was so excited he exclaimed "mom, I was so brave...I didn't even cry and it didn't even hurt"!!!

Of course the tooth fairy visited and he was thrilled to get his dollar bill.

Now onto the PUMPKINS....on saturday morning after a quick visit to the chiro for nick as he has been feeling lots of butt and leg pain we ventured out to get our pumpkins for the fall. We went to a new place this year called Maple Lane Farms. It was nice and quick as we had other plans for the day as well. So we hitched a ride on a hay wagon and out to the pumpkin patch we went.

Well...immediately after the pumpkins we drove an hour for the TRAINS......we took a 3 hour train ride thru the mountains to see some beautiful scenery and in hopes to see the tree's changing color. I personally thought the train ride was a bit long, but Im not thrilled about trains as much as the boys are. Here we are enjoying the train ride thru the mountain....even with nick still feeling pain shooting down his leg.

And now for the OH MY....today(monday) at 10:30am I got a call from nick.

NICK:" honey, I just wanted to let you know that I am not at work right now, but that I am at the ER in Lenoir City".

SANDRA:" why are you there"?

NICK: "I could not walk or get out of a chair today after a meeting and my boss told one of my coworkers to bring me here to see what's going on with my leg".

SANDRA: "you want me to come be with you"?

NICK: "sure if you want to".

So I call around to find a sitter for the boys and head over to be with Nick at the hospital. They did an xray and nothing showed up on that and so they discharged him telling him to get an MRI done. The hospital wouldn't do an MRI unless we had a physicians order and we don't have a family physician here(never needed one). So I got my husband dressed which he really couldn't do it himself, and helped him out to the van after a scare with him about fainting due to the pain. We called the chiro today and we went there at 3pm today for an adjustment and we plan to go for the remainder of the week. Nick has orders to not sit, but to only stand or lay flat and to not go to work for a few days. So nick is home in bed and I am spoon feeding the poor guy his food as he lay's flat to recuperate. The chiro insists that it is a pinched sciatic nerve and we agree with him and he should be back at work at the end of the week. I just had to take some pictures of nick in the hospital bed as I was laughing at the circumstances. If anyone knows my husband he does not go to the hospital very easily. I asked him if his coworker's had to drag him in because he didn't want to go. He just laughed (which hurt of course). Nick is also not one to milk his pain for all its worth....when he is nearly in tears due to the pain I KNOW its serious pain. Enjoy the few pictures I got of him laying in the ER.