I have a whole year's worth of stuff to catch up on here, but I want to go ahead and talk about today. Maddy had her first sedation. Of all places, it was at the dentist office. I had no idea what to expect. In fact I thought maybe she might feel just a little tired and she would be calm and peaceful. Boy was I ever wrong! Her appointment was at 10:30 and she could not eat or drink anything until after her appointment. Thankfully she slept in until 9:16. She would have slept longer but I woke her up to get ready. They had a little trouble coaxing her back to get her sedation juice. They bribe the kids with getting a prize to get them back there. She came out and told me she chose punch, but instead of punch it came out pooch. The instructions said it could take up to an hour for the sedation to take effect for some kids. For this kid it took all of 1 minute. She started getting wobbly real quick and her speech was off. She was hilarious for about 30 seconds and then a switch flipped on and she turned quite angry. She wanted to walk, but she couldn't without falling down or into something. I had her hands to help protect her and she would yell at me, "WHY ARE YOU HOLDING ME?!?!?!?!" Everything I did was wrong. I wouldn't let her walk, I wouldn't get off of her (she was actually the one on top of me), I wouldn't let her go (she actually was holding onto my hands), I didn't understand half the things she wanted. Her mood would go from screaming to the top of her lungs at me to laughing all in a matter of a second. I did record a video of her, but honestly it was very hard to record her because she was all over the place.
Her procedure went good. She didn't like having to bite the gauze and apparently she let them know how she felt about it lol. She got furious with me on the way home because I wouldn't let her take it out. Once we got home it was just horrible. It was the same moody temper and trying to figure out how to make her feel better was just impossible. She finally got out that her mouth hurt. She kept saying her front teeth. She didn't have any work done to her front teeth so I was very confused. I finally asked her to point to where it hurt and it was actually her back tooth on top, which is the one that had work. I gave her some Tylenol which ended up helping her to feel better. She said her tooth still hurt, but it was not as bad. It is currently 9:36 pm and I believe she still has some sedation in her. She can walk and talk just fine but her attitude is all over the place. She just let out a loud squeal/coo out of the blue in her room.
Her procedure was basically like a root canal for kids and they put a crown on it. They also put some sealant on some of her teeth. She says she remembers doing what she did in the video, but the look on her face says she really doesn't. I tried asking what it was like when they were working on her, but she just gives me vague answers. She said they had computers on while they were working. I asked if they were nice and she said yes. I wanted to ask if anything hurt, but I didn't want to spark that memory if there is a memory of it. I snapped a picture of her playing video games prior to the oral sedation.
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