You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.

Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Spike's Bitches 30: Going on Thirteen  

[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.


Volans - Apr 25, 2006 6:47:08 am PDT #1142 of 10002
move out and draw fire

I don't have a corset life either...but I don't think I will until I get a corset.

Or I'll discover it's completely wrong for me.

needle phobias respond very differently than other phobias and Valium actually exacerbates their effect.

Huh. Weird. I've only had Valium once, and it wasn't for a needle phobia (which I don't have) but to relax me while they stuck a camera wire into my vein at my pubic bone and navigated my circulatory system with it up to my shoulder, where they then injected dye through the wire.

And, because it didn't occur to me to NOT be self-reliant, I drove myself home from that. Shifting with my right arm immobilized was a pain. The nurse, after flipping out that I didn't have a driver, did tell me a good back route to Glendale from downtown LA, though.


beekaytee - Apr 25, 2006 6:48:59 am PDT #1143 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

Huh. Weird. I've only had Valium once, and it wasn't for a needle phobia (which I don't have) but to relax me while they stuck a camera wire into my vein at my pubic bone and navigated my circulatory system with it up to my shoulder, where they then injected dye through the wire.

And, because it didn't occur to me to NOT be self-reliant, I drove myself home from that. Shifting with my right arm immobilized was a pain. The nurse, after flipping out that I didn't have a driver, did tell me a good back route to Glendale from downtown LA, though.

I'd comment, but I've fainted dead away.


brenda m - Apr 25, 2006 6:50:09 am PDT #1144 of 10002
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

The cat likes to hide under the sheet as I'm tucking it in (flat or fitted) and the dog thinks he should lay on top of each new layer put on the bed. Very annoying.

Hee. When Lucy was a puppy she used to love playing peekaboo under the sheets as I flipped them up over the bed. She'd leap under and then hold very, very still until I flipped the sheet back up, and come bounding out.


Vortex - Apr 25, 2006 6:51:47 am PDT #1145 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

I don't think I have the courage to corset up, erika. I don't have any place to wear one, anyhow.

don't you go to the grocery store?


ChiKat - Apr 25, 2006 6:58:56 am PDT #1146 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

The cat likes to hide under the sheet as I'm tucking it in (flat or fitted)

Mine does this, too. I just ignore him and keep making the bed. I end up with a cat-lump, but he crawls out when he gets bored.


§ ita § - Apr 25, 2006 7:03:23 am PDT #1147 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I will no longer drive myself to the ER because they won't give me the good drugs until they see my ride home, who cannot be a cab driver.

Not even if I promise not to take the pills in question until I get home.


Trudy Booth - Apr 25, 2006 7:14:28 am PDT #1148 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Huh. Weird. I've only had Valium once, and it wasn't for a needle phobia (which I don't have) but to relax me while they stuck a camera wire into my vein at my pubic bone and navigated my circulatory system with it up to my shoulder, where they then injected dye through the wire.

That sounds SO cool. Did you get to watch on the monitor?

(I once saw my bladder scoped. Decidedly uncomfortable, but very very trippy to watch even without drugs.)


vw bug - Apr 25, 2006 7:15:04 am PDT #1149 of 10002
Mostly lurking...

I will no longer drive myself to the ER because they won't give me the good drugs until they see my ride home, who cannot be a cab driver.

Huh. At my hospital they'll let that person be a cab driver. They'll even take me out to the cab (probably to make sure that that's the way I'm gonna go).


§ ita § - Apr 25, 2006 7:18:08 am PDT #1150 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

When I had my nerve block, they refused to let me have a cab pick me up, despite their assurances that it was a minor procedure with only local in my scalp.

I could have driven home, no problem.

When I had the second nerve block, combined with trigger point injects, I was looped the fuck up. But I still would have been able to call a cab.

I don't think it's especially loserish to have no one to be shuttling you around in the middle of the day. If I hadn't had actor and consultant friends in the neighbourhood, I'd have given myself an ulcer working out some way to not have other friends take any time off work for me.


Aims - Apr 25, 2006 7:23:02 am PDT #1151 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.