a gift and a dream
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cornerofmadnessDoctors talk a lot about the gift of pain. Mostly I think patients think we're idiots. Hand us our painkillers or else without realizing the damage pain killers allow us to do to our bodies (I'm talking acute, traumatic pain vs chronic here). Ask any diabetic or someone with a spinal cord injury how terrible it is to have the gift of pain revoked.
My ankle was feeling better. Only hurts at the end range of motion. It's almost not blue and only a little swollen. So, since it's ridiculously warm out I go outside and start breaking up the ice on the drive with a metal shovel because as anyone will tell you, once the snow melts off (as was the case) and you're left with bare ice, you're screwed.
I get the ice off or at least salted into submission in the thickest areas and go in and put up the plastic on the bay window. Ankle doesn't hurt because hey pain killers. I have no idea that it's fatiguing. I get the plastic up and as I put up the last bit of tape, the ankle gives way and I fall through the damn plastic. I decide I can't redo it because I'll just really hurt myself (ankle is now really hurting and swelling). I just tape up the tear with clear packing tape and ice the joint. Now my wrist is blue and swolled from where it slammed into the window. Pout.
And on a totally different topic, I woke up out of a dream and sadly I can't regale you with the details of it because they are gone but they were in depth. I had a job of taste testing chocolates, beers and watching porn for 'quality' I can only imagine what my brain is trying to tell me with THAT one.
My ankle was feeling better. Only hurts at the end range of motion. It's almost not blue and only a little swollen. So, since it's ridiculously warm out I go outside and start breaking up the ice on the drive with a metal shovel because as anyone will tell you, once the snow melts off (as was the case) and you're left with bare ice, you're screwed.
I get the ice off or at least salted into submission in the thickest areas and go in and put up the plastic on the bay window. Ankle doesn't hurt because hey pain killers. I have no idea that it's fatiguing. I get the plastic up and as I put up the last bit of tape, the ankle gives way and I fall through the damn plastic. I decide I can't redo it because I'll just really hurt myself (ankle is now really hurting and swelling). I just tape up the tear with clear packing tape and ice the joint. Now my wrist is blue and swolled from where it slammed into the window. Pout.
And on a totally different topic, I woke up out of a dream and sadly I can't regale you with the details of it because they are gone but they were in depth. I had a job of taste testing chocolates, beers and watching porn for 'quality' I can only imagine what my brain is trying to tell me with THAT one.
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Date: 2005-02-03 11:15 pm (UTC)Um.... "Relax, party, enjoy yourself for once already"???
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Date: 2005-02-03 11:20 pm (UTC)Yeah that was my suspicion. Brain, wake up and look around at the frozen tundra you're in. You have to wait until I can drive to Madison for fun.
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Date: 2005-02-03 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-03 11:46 pm (UTC)And I come with my own supply of porn and double A batteries but if i want the real thing I'm sadly out of luck here in sticksburg
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Date: 2005-02-03 11:47 pm (UTC)Sorry about your ankle. And I agree completely. Sometimes the little blue decongestant is just a brush off for a bigger problem to work it's way in.
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Date: 2005-02-03 11:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-03 11:50 pm (UTC)There is something to be said for pain but with your father, I don't have to tell you that.
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Date: 2005-02-03 11:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-04 12:03 am (UTC)But I can't imagine doing it the other way around now.
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Date: 2005-02-04 12:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-04 04:11 am (UTC)And the chocolate and porn part sounds great, I hate beer though.
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Date: 2005-02-04 04:14 am (UTC)I love beer. and chocolate nad probably porn
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Date: 2005-02-04 05:56 am (UTC)Need a psychic to come up with the answers for those.
So, your foot was doing better until...and then your wrist? *sigh*
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Date: 2005-02-04 05:59 am (UTC)foot HURTS tonight. WIll take narcotic
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Date: 2005-02-04 06:34 am (UTC)Or maybe that narcotic.
I'm leaving; the Folks are taking me to breakfast at the break of dawn tomorrow (today?).
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Date: 2005-02-04 03:03 pm (UTC)how was breakfast
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Date: 2005-02-05 03:28 am (UTC)Breakfast was really good biscuits smothered in sawmill gravy, which wasn't bad. I'd have preferred the biscuits with just butter and some of Mom's raspberry jelly but I didn't get a choice because Mom went out and got the food before I got up this a.m.
Still, the biscuits were EXCELLENT.
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Date: 2005-02-05 03:45 am (UTC)chocolate beer tones yummy
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Date: 2005-02-05 03:54 am (UTC)I can just hear, "The hell is this crap?"
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Date: 2005-02-05 05:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-05 05:38 am (UTC)After, of course, you re-read "Kicks".
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Date: 2005-02-05 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-05 09:41 pm (UTC)Also? GIP! Just saying.
Comment reposted because grammar hates me today
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Date: 2005-02-05 10:55 pm (UTC)WHERE DID YOU GET GOTH GOD? I love Goth God.
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Date: 2005-02-06 03:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-06 02:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-06 03:46 pm (UTC)