Very funny comic about anxiety. [link]BWAH!
downs Vicodin
It's just one of those "Am I like other parents" moments.The icky ones? Not a chance...
Raq, I hope Mal stays unfussy and that it was just a baby moment for him.
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down? Mal: I won't. Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster. Mal: I'll take that as a kindness.
'Trash'
Spike's Bitches 26: Damn right I'm impure!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Cass - Sep 10, 2005 7:55:51 am PDT #2178 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
DavidS - Sep 10, 2005 8:01:20 am PDT #2179 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Pain sucks. It eats up all your patience and gnaws at your days.
Cindy, please invest in a pillow and go see your doctor. He may have the same advice as ever but this is going on too long. Your whole family is limping along right now. Take care of yourself.
I for one welcome Our New Whinging Overlords you venting when you need to.
Poor Cass. May the Vicodin take you off to a beautiful...land of chocolate! Yes, just like the one where the little chocolate dog ran up to Homer and he took a huge bite out of its back.
JZ's off to the opening of Faire. It's a gorgeous day in San Francisco.
I'm sorry if I was an obnoxious git about names yesterday.
brenda m - Sep 10, 2005 8:06:30 am PDT #2180 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Nah, I can see where it pinged you.
For myself, I only have opinions like that about names that don't have a face attached to them. Otherwise it's so wrapped up in the person that it really doesn't have much to do with the name. (Ergo, Emmett is a name that I doubt I'd ever thought one way or another about, but now it's firmly in the coolest column. Oh, and he's totally got a great baseball name. I look forward to the day when I can bore people with "I knew him [from a distance] when stories.")
Topic!Cindy - Sep 10, 2005 8:08:12 am PDT #2181 of 10001
What is even happening?
Cass, for some reason, I had your pain filed as being lower back pain. The flexeril is doing you good for your neck, even though they think it's a pinched nerve? Hmmm. Yeah, I am probably calling my doctor on Monday.
Raq, I think reading "Bloodbath and Beyond" made my day.
Steph L. - Sep 10, 2005 8:10:21 am PDT #2182 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Cass, you may want to get an MRI at some point, just to be sure it isn't a disc thing. Granted, if it *is* a disc thing, the choice of treatment may well be PT -- but I think PT for a disc thing is different than that for a pinched nerve.
Cass, for some reason, I had your pain filed as being lower back pain.
I did, too.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 10, 2005 8:13:56 am PDT #2183 of 10001
What is even happening?
Cindy, please invest in a pillow and go see your doctor.Yes to the pillow, the doctor is a maybe. He's a maybe, because I've been going through this periodically since February '95, when I first had the accident. And he knows, and the advice is never different. If I thought I'd done something new, I'd have already been there.
He may have the same advice as ever but this is going on too long.Tomorrow will be a week since I woke up in pain, but it's waxed and waned during the week.
Your whole family is limping along right now. Take care of yourself.
Yes and yes. And thank you. I don't mean any of the above to be snippy. It's just largely the same old same old for me. I'm just beaten down by the craptacular summer we've had.
brenda m - Sep 10, 2005 8:34:13 am PDT #2184 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
You really have had a tough one.
vw bug - Sep 10, 2005 8:35:56 am PDT #2185 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
I'm just beaten down by the craptacular summer we've had.
Completely understandable.
My biology book just came! After all that fuss the other night, it's the US edition after all. I must have gotten that e-mail by mistake.
d - Sep 10, 2005 8:35:58 am PDT #2186 of 10001
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
Cindy, not using anything really on my finger as I can't actually see any puncture sites (and it didn't bleed or anything). Mostly I'm just keeping an eye on it. And it's nothing that needs Vicodin or Flexeril, so I'm much better off than most people on the board, it seems. Even with the outbreak of shingles on my face this past week. Effing viruses.
Also, you can find cervical neck roll pillows at lots of different places. I think most department stores and probably even Target carry a brand of some sort. (Although I am Tempurpedic's bitch so I highly recommend them although they're very pricey.)
Plus, you could probably use muscle work of some kind (massage, chiro, PT) to reduce some of the scar tissue and "reeducate" your muscles.
I also thought Cass' pain was low back. Odd. Glad nothing seems overtly problematic, though.
Volans - Sep 10, 2005 8:41:46 am PDT #2187 of 10001
move out and draw fire
Oh, and he's totally got a great baseball name.
He so totally does! Except he can't be a closer for the A's, but otherwise, great baseball name.
Cass, glad you went to the doctor, and glad there is relief in sight. I'd rub your back were it not for geographical difficulties.
I actually do keep meaning to get massage training/license. It's something I'm good at, and while I don't know that I'd like it as a job, I like doing it.
I'm in one of those introspective, write-y moods, which no good ever comes of. So with Mal finally asleep, I think I'm going to try to draw some.