Home From The Dentist

I'm home from the dentist. Thank you all for keeping me in your prayers over the last week. I really felt a calm sense of peace pass over me this morning. I was going to try to post an update a little earlier than this, but to be honest, I've just been hurting alot more than I expected and I've been laying down with a blanket over my head since I came home.
My dentist decided to try and just pull my teeth today. He said there really didn't seem to be a reason to cut them out. Apparently, it's cheaper to pull teeth than it is to cut them out. since I don't have insurance, I was all for saving some money. He didn't have any problem pulling the top/left wisdom tooth. I was numb and didn't feel a thing. He moved on to pull the bottom/left tooth. Not the wisdom tooth, just the one directly beside of it. He said it would be easier to get to the bottom wisdom tooth after that tooth beside it was removed. It came out without a problem and so I relaxed completely before he moved on to pull the bottom/left wisdom tooth. He told me that it's trickier to pull wisdom teeth on the bottom and that he needed me to stay really still and just relax. I tried my best. Unfortunately, that last tooth was still a little infected (absessed) and the numbness wasn't as good in that area. He started to pull and I felt my jaw jerk in pain. I was as still as I could possibly be, but that tooth was being stubborn. I felt the tooth shatter and heard the dentist mutter in frustration. Little bits of tooth went everywhere. My gag relex set in and saved me from swallowing the majority of the fragments. He informed me that the tooth had indeed shattered and that it would complicate things. He still had to attempt to remove the remaining pieces of tooth and root from my gums. I felt my jawbone break as he fractured my cortical plate in my jawbone. Yep, he broke my jaw. I could be heard screaming out in the waiting room. It hurt. He tried drilling or grinding the other parts of the tooth out, but in the end he did have to cut the rest of the tooth out. I've been bleeding quite a bit, as I am a pretty good bleeder. I've been in alot of pain since then and sick to my stomach. The taste of blood mixed with the little tooth fragments that I managed to swallow and the emptiness in my stomach has caused me to feel really yucky and I've thrown up several times (I'll spare you the details!) I'm so glad that it's all over and done, but I really wish that it hadn't hurt so much and that my jaw wasn't fractured in the process. At least I won't have to worry about the infection anymore and the pain will end eventually.
Again, thank you all for praying and for all the words of encouragement you offered me this past week:) ((Hugs to you all!!))