Last night, C was swinging from her rope-swing downstairs, and somehow managed to catch her tooth in the rope. No one saw it happen – J was playing videogames and a friend was on the turntables – but there was a sudden a deafening shriek. The kind of hollering that turns my blood cold and sends me running.

By the time I got downstairs, she was sitting on J’s lap sobbing and there was blood all over his shirt. It took some minutes to calm her down and get her to bite on a washcloth to stop the bleeding. We finally got a look and that tooth was gone. Poor baby. That’s a hard way to earn a visit from the Tooth Fairy.

We looked all over for the lost tooth, but it was an impossible task. J was potting plants down there earlier in the day, and there was pearlite all over the floor. Not to mention C’s toys and J’s records. I tried, picking up many irregularly-shaped bits of white debris from the floor, but it was hopeless.

It’s ok mommy – the Tooth Fairy will use her magic to find the tooth when she comes tonight.

That’s right, she will! Gotta love little C -she always looks on the bright side. And she was a trooper too, so brave.

The dentist said the tooth pulled out cleanly, and the new tooth will grow in soon. There was a tiny bit of root that they had to pull out, but it didn’t hurt. Pretty dramatic though, whew!

Things are feeling better inside my brain today too. I got a bunch of stuff done today, went to work and even cleaned most of the kitchen. I had a bit more energy, and feel like the funk is lifting. And I’m gonna do my best to make tomorrow even better than today. Everyone’s posts about how normal all this shit that I’m going through is have really helped me see that I don’t have to let this down-swing spiral out of control.

Thank you again to everyone who clicked over to read my first post at Suboxone Blog - y’all made my day.