I once had a mountain biking accident ...

Consuela wins! That's way more horrendous than anything I've done to myself, including the accident that broke my front teeth.

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Edited: Mitch Longley, [link]

Oh yeah, he was on Port Charles. He's a hottie. He should definitely get more roles.

Car accident featuring: fractured coccyx while laying on a back board (I was literally sitting in the hospital moaning, "my ass! my ass!" because I was pretty out of it) and no pain meds for the first few days since I had liver lacerations.

Oh, you might tie with juliana for Queen of Pain.

I managed to fracture same while in labor with my second baby. That pretty much sucked. Not my worst pain ever, though. All my worst pain belongs to teeth issues.

Oh, I was going to declare it a three way tie, but you think the teeth stuff is worse. I wonder if you think that because of the Tabula Rasa L&D hormones, because a fractured coccyx during labor sounds unfreakingbearable to me. Was the baby sunnyside up, or something?

since it was the same series of injections they give you for an episiotomy

I didn't get injections for my episiotomy. For the first baby, I had an epi, but numbers two and three? Not so much. But oy, Consuela, that's a nasty injury. I think I read about that in your lj, before. Ooof.

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OK, that has me flashing on the Frieda Kahlo film.

shudder

I wanted to kill my dentist after I had my wisdom teeth removed under local. But it wasn't so much extreme pain as just a long period of major discomfort and they wouldn't give me any good drugs. Liquid tylenol. Tylenol has has no effect on pain for me since I was 11. Which they knew. Pointless.

I AM SO FUCKING EDGY. I think it is the heat (82 inside when I got home. Now 79. It's cooling outside BUT) combined with my officemate taking many days off to slack and go on job interviews and knowing he'll be GONE FOREVER next week. It's depressing and I know I actually miss him when I'm sitting alone in the office.

I'm either going to start angry crying or kill someone, at this rate. I'm in extreme fuckit mode at the office. Not helpful.

I tried napping but ended up twitching too much to relax.

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We had an all too brief thunder storm, and when it was over, we lost our power. It wasn't yet cool enough outside, so the house just felt like soup. Thankfully, it's back on, now. We did have fun, though. After we determined there were at least some other houses in the neighborhood without power (they were all behind us) and that it wasn't just our house, we lit candles and the five of us played 20 Questions. When the power came back on, we shut off the lights, and kept playing. We did keep the A.C. on though, because we could.

It's raining again now, which means no window fans in the kids' rooms. The poor little things. It's really hot up there. I hope the cool air blows in there, soon.

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So, how many times have space shuttles been hit by debris that caused damage? 15,000. No, really. (Most of those range from minor to very minor.)

Let's see if I can link directly to this: [link]

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Ack! Suela, ouch.

My tear didn't hurt all that much, even after the walking epidural wore off. (I could feel it, but it was dulled, and I could feel the injection for before they stitched me, but that was also dulled.)

Oh, lord. How could I forget dry socket? Worse than back spasm (so also worse than childbirth), but not worse than stomach flu, because dry socket packing took the pain away quickly.

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I was staying at my brother and SIL's when she went into labor and had the nephew. The first day she was home, there was a lot of bloodcurdling screaming when she went to the bathroom, courtesy of the episiotemy.

It's actually one reason she insists D with be an only. That and pregnancy was really miserable for her. My pleas for her to have another so the focus never turns to me and I have more kidlets to spoil goes unheeded. OK, not unheeded, she laughs in my face. And calls me an evil bitch.

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Hmmm...I have to say I got a dry socket when I had my third extraction session (thank you marlboros) and, while it was uncomfortable and irritating, it was nothing compared to the previously mentioned infection. I think I'm permanently skewed.

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a fractured coccyx during labor sounds unfreakingbearable to me. Was the baby sunnyside up, or something?

Nope, and he was the smallest of all three of them. Actually, I didn't realize it until two or three days later, when the L&D pain had begun to wear off and I realized I could *not* sit down properly without major pain. The doctor reasoned that I had cracked it during labor, and said it would heal eventually. Which, I guess, it did.

we lit candles and the five of us played 20 Questions

Fun! Do you ever play what we call the ABC game? You pick a category and go in a circle; if it's animals, the first person says aardvark, the second says bear, etc. No time limit and no clapping, though. We play it at dinner all the time.

How could I forget dry socket?

What is dry socket? Or do I not want to know, dental-phobic that I am?

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Which shuttle was it that hit the paint chip at orbital speed and gouged one of the forward windows?

eta--found it:

With all the cosmic debris orbiting the earth, it's little wonder the space shuttles routinely get dings in their windshields. A tiny speck of space debris smashed into Space Shuttle Challenger's windshield on astronaut Rick Hauck's first mission in 1983, leaving a 4-mm crater, about 0.2 inches. Hauck spotted the small pit in the glass and alerted the crew.

The debris was later identified as a chip of white paint, likely a remnant of a previous rocket launch. Though small, the debris was estimated to be hurtling through space at about 10,800 mph when it hit the window.

"We end up replacing one to two thermal windows after each shuttle mission," said Nick Johnson, NASA's Orbital Debris Program manager. "It's the cost of doing business in space."

For added protection, the shuttle's windowpanes contain three separate layers of thick glass. Thus far, no debris has penetrated the glass to the pressurized crew cabin, only the spacecraft's outer thermal pane. Between 1981 and 1996, shuttle windows sustained about 300 pits and 55 panes were replaced, according to a 1997 National Research Council report....

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