Hee. Thanks, Kathy. Tim was texting me encouragement during the thing.
I was thinking of him during the wealth/prestige conversation earlier.
ita, take the free jammies!
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Aug 07, 2007 6:46:04 pm PDT #3245 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
§ ita § - Aug 07, 2007 7:04:23 pm PDT #3246 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Charge nurse came in to tell me they're still working on the starter IV stuff, and he could look into an oral painkiller in the meanwhile, if I wanted.
My communication skills are evidently less well-developed than I'd thought. I mean, pain relief? Why would I want that?
ChiKat - Aug 07, 2007 7:07:01 pm PDT #3247 of 10001
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?
Dear heavens. I want to call them and yell at them for you for a while. I realize they're busy, but c'mon. Someone's been in the hospital for almost 24 hours due to pain and maybe they'd want a painkiller??
Lee - Aug 07, 2007 7:12:53 pm PDT #3248 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I want to call them and yell at them for you for a while.
Seriously.
Also, Paperdol, ita, and Kat, G. says hi.
§ ita § - Aug 07, 2007 7:22:50 pm PDT #3249 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The crack team is on it now. He was just here to put in an IV because I'd pulled the other one out.
I couldn't help make a face as I explained I'd done nothing of the sort. I'm here for pain medication. Why would I pull out an IV? It then became "the IV that had been accidentally pulled out."
Hmmph.
And then he promptly failed twice at hitting a vein and has gone to find another nurse.
My blood is still all over the floor, and I'm being a semantic pedant. This is what pain drives me to.
Lee, tell G I say hi right back at him.
DavidS - Aug 07, 2007 7:34:38 pm PDT #3250 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
ita, this is starting to sound like the old SNL skit with Dan Ackroyd as Julia Child.
Pix - Aug 07, 2007 7:35:25 pm PDT #3251 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
So help me, I want to descend on that hospital with the wrath of a thousand suns and tell them to shape the hell up!
beth b - Aug 07, 2007 7:42:57 pm PDT #3252 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Fuck . I am feeling a strong urge to run to LA and straighten things out. I did not expect to come home and still see you this bad. and dealing with a hell of a lot of bullshit on top of it. I know they have to repeat stuff, and they are busy , etc. But they are expecting way to much from someone in this much pain.
§ ita § - Aug 07, 2007 7:52:33 pm PDT #3253 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The IV's in! Hoorah. Now all they have to do is put something in the IV and we can start cooking with gas.
Fucking hell, I hate hospitals.
Laura - Aug 07, 2007 7:56:22 pm PDT #3254 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Oh ita, may they put the good stuff in there quick. All the peaceful pain free ~ma in the world headed your way.