Blatent Post looking for Sympathy.

[AndrewA]

Yes Folks I am not a happy bunny at moment.

Had what was left of 2 rear teeth next to each other extracted, broken roots etc, This was done on the NHS, the dentist was Italian and English not brilliant, the nurse was new as well, she was not brilliant. I had nothing described to me, had no idea what was going on, the sighing and tutting did not help, nurse left me with mouth filling up with blood and puss, puss left over from abscess and ongoing infection 6 months ago, yes its taken 6 months to get this done. Several stitches as well. They hurt more than the extractions!

Then to cap it all the dentist did not fill in the prescription correctly, made 4 errors including not giving a recognised name for the anti-biotics, my local pharmacist was brilliant, got in touch with dentist and basically told him what he should be giving me! Had to wait 40 mins though.

Anyway, site is very sore and painful my throat has become raw and I can not eat or drink anything warm or hot for 2 days. I have a bottle of HobGobblin in fridge that I am going to treat myself to.

SO yes get those violins out. Its times like this when I wish I had someone specail in my life, before my ex wife went cuckoo she used to be brilliant at just mothering me and comforting me in times of illness. So now I just have to nurse this on my own with a bottle of beer and the football.

[Northern Lass]

Andrew we will mother you!

and here are some words of comfort and a little ditty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyWiiDxbk-A

[snoopysue]

Ahhhh

The least they could have done was make sure the nurse knew what she was doing, so that she could explain when the dentist couldn't/didn't. My pet hate is foreign health care workers who can't speak the lingo! (That's coming from a Brit working in a Danish hospital!).

[Rob]

Wow AndrewA that's a tough deal at this time of the year.Here's a piece of advice unlike the silly song put on earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fErxb8B2uAU

Hope it helps.

[Northern Lass]

[gardener]

That sounds terrible! Hope that you are feeling better now and that you recover fast enough to enjoy some nice food.

[AndrewA]

Well I am back home now, Thank you everyone, I will just take the jokes with dignity!

Still very sore and puffy, getting very fed up with this, aparently can take up to 4 weeks to fully heal... great.

The food at my mothers was excellent as always, but I struggled to eat and suffered with pain at the end of the day for eating a large meal, left some stuff that was too chewy or hard, shame really as the small mouthful of cooked ham I had tasted great.

I am supposed to go back in January for the other side to be done, seriously too long, as I said been waiting since MAY, problem is my new job starts begining of January and it has been made clear I can not have any time off what so ever for first 8 weeks, so obviously I can not do it, last thing I want is to walk for miles in cold feeling like death warmed up.

The other side of this is those that have and those that do not, if I was wealthy I could have paid to have this done and it would have been all done and dusted by June. NHS is good, but the waiting times for non- life threatening operations seems to take forever.