uh, is that normal?

[somedaybitch]

so mom went to the dentist. she needed to have a cavity filled apparently. dentist shoots her up with novocaine and accidentally tags a blood vessel. oops. novocaine, being a numbing agent, then travelled through her blood stream and did its numbing job, only on her heart instead of her tooth. oops.

good thing the dentist, other than hitting a blood vessel, was really paying attention because he noticed her reactions getting slower and slower and put her on oxygen and called 911. by the time the medics got there her heart had stopped. good times.

eta: bonus points and a google thanks to Papa!thevaliumsofa for calling the novocaine in the blood stream scenario last night after i gave donna a run down and her latest vitals. he rocks the house.

i'll spare you the draHma of my family apparently being unable to think to call me at work, that place i was trapped for 15 hours, and me only finding out yesterday when this actually happened on monday, and just get to the mom's gonna be fine part of the story. they took her off the respirator around 6ish last night - they had to wait for the paralytic agent to wear off - and i talked to her today and she sounded great. last night she was worried she'd had another stroke because she couldn't talk clearly and i smiled and said, no mom, your tongue is still kinda paralyzed, along with the rest of your body.


did i mention good times? oh yeah. good times.

Comments

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

OMG! O_O I am SO glad she's okay, how freaky scary and wtf not telling you until YESTERDAY????

*hugsyoutight*

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

yeah...my family's...odd.

*clings*

[ch1pper.livejournal.com]

(((((you)))))


Once again, I never want to go to dentists.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

thanks, yo. VAUGHN!HUGS ICON!!! :::wiggles toes happily:::

i'm just glad the guy was payin' attention. poor dude is utterly mortified. mom's long time dentist and not a quack.

[thevaliumsofalj.livejournal.com]

:::hugs:::

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

:::hugs you back:::

[jebbypal]

Holy crap! That's not something I'd ever considered. And so far, a dentist is about the only type of doctor that hasn't tried to kill a member of my family.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

well, thankfully, he was paying so much attention, because if he hadn't, she'd be toast.

[arthurfrdent.livejournal.com]

kid! with the yikes! glad mommalady is going to be OK... you? hopefully you'se no longer shaking, have a hug... ;)

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

:::cuddles:::

[filmg33k.livejournal.com]

Dude.

Hugs.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

thanks camel. :D

[bexxa.livejournal.com]

ZOMG!!! Glad to hear that all is well now, but ZOMG!!!

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

:::curls up with The Prisoner and Veronica Mars to de-stress:::

[cofax7]

OMG!

::flails::

Gah!

So glad she's okay. But gah! ::shudder::

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

yeah. how's that for praying on one's existing dentist neuroses?

[boofadil.livejournal.com]

Dude...wtf does no one call you about these things?! Especially after the last time.

Glad she's doing well. Good on Dr. Dentist-man for paying attention to his patien'ts reactions.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

that's twice in a row, although, i can more fully blame my mom for the stroke on accounta she didn't tell anybody, much less me. she waited until her regularly scheduled appointment, two weeks later, to see the doc.

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

Ai yai yai yai yai. Um, wow, that's... Well hey, she's still alive. I had no idea Novocaine could be so dangerous if it got injected in the wrong place. Note to self: brush and floss often as part of attempt to avoid dental surgery.

You must be relieved. And also totally freaked out.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

You must be relieved. And also totally freaked out.


totally both, yo. totally both. it helped a lot that the ICU staff was just golden and really sweet. one of the nurses even gave my mom a back massage before she nodded off to sleep last night.

[hercircumstance.livejournal.com]

*flist surfing*

That is horrible! I am glad she is ok and the doc was able to notice something was off. When I had my last cavity years back my vision doubled after the shot and I had trouble blinking for a day. I have been brushing very well now. I wonder how common errors like that are or if it was a fluke.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

*waves*

I have been brushing very well now.

heh. we never grow out of that little kid fear do we?

I wonder how common errors like that are or if it was a fluke.

well, i've never heard of it happening, but Papa!Doc did, so i'm guessing it's somewhere around occasional but not unheard of? either that or he's just brilliant...or both.

[simplystars.livejournal.com]

i have irrational paranoia fear of the occasional-but-not-unheard-of complication where bacteria enters the bloodstream during dental work and lodges in the heart and damages it. O_o

when they killed off jimmy smits' character in NYPD Blue, it totally made things worse. *sniff*

[stlscape.livejournal.com]

Yikes! I've never heard of that before. VERY glad Mama's going to be okay.

*sends hugs*

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

:::mails back kisses:::

[kernezelda]

Good lord! I'm glad the dentist was attentive, and that your mom is all right. Your family gets no cookies for not telling you right away.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

don't they suck that way? :::shakes head::: not one of them had the presence of mind to call the dept and see if i was on duty. oi.

[lvp3.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! I'm glad she's okay. ::hugsyou:: That's insane!!!

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

:::giggles at the icon and hugs you back:::

[lvp3.livejournal.com]

glad i got you to giggle! :) i am so giddy for the game i may paint myself black and yellow! lol

seriously though, glad your mom is okay. thank goodness the dentist realized something was wrong so quickly!

[gingerwood.livejournal.com]

Um, Gah? It must be one of those freak occurance sort of things. I'm so glad that her dentist caught on that something was wrong so quick. Are there going to be any reprocussions on him?

I'm really glad that she's ok.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

for the dentist? not from us. he may have triggered what happened, but he also saved her life. i can't see him getting into any "in-house" sort of trouble either, but i don't quite know how all that works.

[kerlin.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, that's horrible. I'm so glad she's okay, and like many other people who have commented...I'm so never going to the dentist again. EEK.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

PUPPY!!!!!!! :::scratches puppy's ears:::

i thought about putting up a "don't read this if you ever want to go to the dentist again" cut tag, but i figured, meh, who *wants* to go to the dentist anyway?

[pualaridesagain.livejournal.com]

I do, but im crazy that way. I like my dentist.

I'm really glad that your mom is ok. I'm glad that you're ok too....I'm TRIPLE glad that she has a smart dentist.

::::::WG::::::


ps: ptooey on your family for not telling you.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

yeah, they're wacky. they got around to it eventually.