If he's continued to treat patients the way he treated you, odds are someone removed his balls years ago....

My beloved exdh had a sadist dentist who ripped out a bunch of teeth without warning and without adequate medication. I was furious on his behalf. The next week, somebody walked into the dentist's office and shot him dead. Fortunately, my ex, who was a cop at the time, had an airtight alibi. No tears were shed.

I, on the other hand, had my wisdom teeth taken out without drugs...voluntarily. Pain is preferable to needles in my world.

Men seem to be under a lot more societal pressure to ignore pain and be all manly when dealing with strangers (and I include doctors and nurses in this category).

It's taken many years for Hubby to be willing to admit how much pain he's in in front of me. He has an obscene tolerance for pain. He'll get asked the "On a scale of 1 to 10" question, and he'll say, "8," and the doc will say, "Well, that's high but we can work with that." Then I'll say, "Tell him where a kidney stone falls on your personal 1 to 10 list", and he'll say "6," and the doctor will go pale.

My husband defines "stoic in the face of pain" to the point of causing damage to himself, because he just cannot admit to weakness of any kind. Silly stupidhead.

Hmm, I ran out of vacation days before I hadthought I did. Turns out tomorrow is my last day off and I have now borrowed 2 days against next year. Oh well.

The (grand)parentals are here and mac is playing with new toys (Duplo blocks mainly) he was way spoiled, but many things are just being put away. He clearly was overwhelmed. Oddly the the biggest mass toy came from someone I have never met, a friend of the uncle. Odd what people give, both in being generous and also in what they feel is appropriate - this toy takes up one full toy box.

Are you not using the FMLA, msbelle? (not to be all nosy, just wondering.)

Happy Birthday, Jesse, Theodosia and Rayne!

I like my dentist because when he was working on a dead toothe and I felt pain- he was baffled - but gave me more drugs. Oddly, as long as I can trust that my pain complaints work, pain bothers me less. control issues

Happy Boxing Birthday to Jesse, Theo and the long-absent but not forgotten Rayne!

From Christmas Eve, my new favorite picture of Matilda.

Not using FMLA Aimee. I can't really go without pay.

msbelle, I continue to be touched by you and Mac. Even though I figured it would happen, that you would adopt a child, I just couldn't have predicted how...I don't know...beautiful it would be.

I think my parents think I drink too much, but I think I'm 37 and I don't drink at home. So, a few mimosas, alcohol in the egg nog, alcohol in the sorrell--that's perfectly normal. In days gone by, they'd already have spiked the nog and sorrell. It's just that they drink less. I don't have to.

Also I seem to recall being 37, but my conviction on the importance and relevance of that does waver a bit.

On my most recent trip to the dentist, which was something like 7 years since the last one, the dentist told me something very interesting about pain in the mouth.

He says that the nerves in teeth have only pain receptors, so any sensation at all is registered as pain. I never really thought about what other sensations my teeth have ever experienced, but now that he mentions it...

Not using FMLA Aimee. I can't really go without pay.

I hear ya.