We had to cancel Olivia's surgery date to have all her teeth repaired under a general anesthesia, we just don't have the $5,300 right now, and it is our businesses slow season. The timing just couldn't be worse. I tried to call and get discounts and get people to work with us. The hospital would only discount 10% of their $2,500 and that was it.
So we scheduled an appointment for today with our regular dentist to see how she would handle the dental work. We got her some Valium, and they used the little gas on her nose. But even before he began the work, she kept saying she was scared, and as soon as they turned on the suction she was crying, then they put the little purple thing in her mouth to help hold it open and were just trying to get the green plastic support in and she was screaming. I stayed and held her hand and tried to console her, but it wasn't working. She was border line hysterical. So he put some stuff on her tooth that has been hurting her to try and help with the pain. She has been really complaining about tooth pain since yesterday. When I asked her WHICH tooth hurt she pointed to two of them, and then said ALL MY TEETH MOMMY.
It is so hard with an adopted older child, you really don't know what they have been through and why they are scared, what happened in their past. Knowing the cause of her fears would help us know how to prepare her and help her. Though Olivia is our 5th child, I often feel like a new parent trying to learn all new methods to work with her. Also with all her needs I have to stay on top of so many things, to keep her treatment plan moving and also to get her signed up and registered for everything. We have done not stop paperwork for two years, I thought when we got her home that we were about done, and in many ways it felt like we just started OVER...
I am just so frustrated... we just don't have the money, yet I know she needs all this work. Now that she is complaining about pain it make me feel even worst. We just needed a little more time to recover from the $30,000 we had to pay to adopt her... but as you know if you are a parent... you never get a break... :(
Our dentist is calling a pediatric anesthesiologist to see if they can come in and give her some other meds that will really sedate her and we hope we can do all the work then. So please pray that we can work out this dental situation. We paid so much just to bring her home, well above what they had quoted us. We are just tapped financially.
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