FAMILY WEEKLY UPDATE: 27th April – 3rd May | Tooth Extraction, Recovery & A Slower Week

Family Weekly Update

This week definitely didn’t go to plan and ended up being a much slower week than usual.

After having some dental work done at the start of the week, I started feeling really unwell and spent most of the week trying to rest and recover while juggling normal family life at home.

Here is this week’s family weekly update, sharing everything we got up to throughout the week.

🦷 Dentist Appointment & A Rough Start to the Week

On Monday, I had a dentist appointment to have a filling done as well as a tooth extraction.

I was already quite nervous about going, so I was relieved once it was finally over and I could head home and try to relax for the evening.

Unfortunately, later that night the filling fell out completely, which definitely wasn’t what I wanted after already having such a stressful appointment earlier in the day.

📞 Trying to Get Back Into the Dentist

The next morning, I rang the dentist to explain what had happened.

Unfortunately, because I needed to see the same dentist who had done the filling, they couldn’t fit me back in until Saturday as she only works Mondays and Saturdays.

At that point, I was already starting to feel quite unwell, and the gum where the tooth had been extracted was becoming really painful.

🛋️ A Very Quiet Week at Home

As the week went on, I started feeling worse and worse.

The pain in my gum was horrible, and on top of that I also seemed to develop what felt like a sinus infection, with a really blocked nose and a lot of pressure in my face — which may well have been connected to the tooth extraction.

I just felt completely run down and exhausted, so I spent most of the week on the sofa watching TV and trying to rest as much as possible.

It definitely ended up being a much quieter week than usual, but sometimes your body really does force you to slow down.

Thankfully, the kids were really good while I was feeling rough, and Lawrence helped out where he could around work.

💊 Back to the Dentist & Finally Getting Antibiotics

By Saturday, I was feeling really fed up and relieved that my dentist appointment had finally arrived.

When I went back, the dentist confirmed what I had suspected — the gum where the tooth had been extracted had become infected.

She prescribed me some antibiotics straight away, but because it was a Saturday and the Monday was a bank holiday, my usual pharmacy wasn’t reopening until Tuesday.

Lawrence was at work and I had the kids with me, so I rang my parents to see if they could help find an open pharmacy because I really didn’t feel like I could wait several more days for the medication.

Thankfully, they managed to find one that was open and picked the prescription up for me, which I was so grateful for.

🌿 Starting to Feel Better

By Sunday, after starting the antibiotics, I was finally beginning to feel a little bit better.

I was still tired and not fully back to normal, but it definitely felt like things were starting to improve again. After such a rough week, it was honestly just a relief to finally start feeling a bit better again.