Root canal

I went to have a root canal redone this afternoon.  I originally had this root canal over 3 years ago and it has never felt right.  I complained to the dentist who did it the first time that it never stopped hurting and he dismissed my complaints.  He just gave me antibiotics & pain pills and sent me on my way, saying there was nothing wrong.  I went to another dentist and complained about it and he was reluctant to open it back up again because he couldn't really see anything on the x-ray.  He said if it continued to hurt, he'd send me to a specialist.  Very encouraging...  Then I got a new dentist that I like and trust about a year ago and he agreed to redo it, but I had to wait a year for my new dental insurance to be able to cover it.  So now I finally had it redone today and wow.  Wow.  My dentist had never seen anything like it.  It was so infected and oozing (disgusting, I know) that he couldn't even finish it today.  He even found some paper shoved in there and said in so many words that I should sue the original dentist.  It was never done right in the first place and I was completely right to keep insisted that something was wrong with it, which is satisfying but also frustrating.

So I've had this infected thing inside me for years now and never had a clue how bad it was.  It got me to thinking:  could this have had an effect on me trying to get pregnant?  It's been there since before we even started trying.  Maybe this infection has only made all the problems I've had even worse.  This was my mom's thought too when she heard about it all.  I guess we'll never know for sure, but this couldn't have helped.  What more could there be now??

So now I'll start a 2nd round of antibiotics to try to clear this up and go back in about a week to finish the root canal.  The first round of antibiotics gave me the worst yeast infection which I spread to Shannon even though we were being careful.  Good times...  I asked for something other than Amoxicillin this time, so we'll see.

I really think I deserve a break after all this, right?  Right?