My friend's kid is on the NPR site! In connection with, um, a site about edible mustaches. (Hers is a sweet potato fry.) [link]
I'm going to see to Wesley, see if he's still whimpering.
Giles ,'Chosen'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
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.
Strega - Jul 16, 2008 4:25:36 pm PDT #8256 of 10003
tommyrot - Jul 16, 2008 4:26:17 pm PDT #8257 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
And DebetEsse does not mean a female accountant, which was my first thought.
Jesse - Jul 16, 2008 4:28:32 pm PDT #8258 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My friend's kid is on the NPR site! In connection with, um, a site about edible mustaches. (Hers is a sweet potato fry.)
Hilarious! So cute.
sarameg - Jul 16, 2008 4:37:28 pm PDT #8259 of 10003
I wanna cry. Please tell me that the fact I can't open my jaw more than halfway without pain due to dental work (this part is normal- my jaw does not like being held open for more than, oh, 10 minutes, without protest ) is also the source of a particular nerve flaring up unexpectedly, and not a case of my $1K root canal now posted and filled indicating that they didn't get it all and I need another.
It doesn't hurt like when it blew up the first time, is not screaming or throbbing or swelling the gums or sensitive to temps, just tender to pressure and it is FREAKING ME OUT.
I HATE TEETH. HATE.
I'm so ready to tell them to just yank them all and put in fakes, fuck the cost.
Kristen - Jul 16, 2008 4:39:23 pm PDT #8260 of 10003
Where did they inject you with novocaine? Was it at the very back of your mouth?
javachik - Jul 16, 2008 4:40:14 pm PDT #8261 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
Sara, that sucks!! I am sorry that you're in Big pain. Big sorry.
java, I was in a Latin class and on a Man of La Mancha kick, so I took a key phrase from a key speech "And maddest of all, to see the world as it is and not as it ought to be" and translated the last bit--it ought to be--into Latin: debet esse.
A-ha! Thanks. Before I met you, I thought maybe you were two people - Deb and Tesse!
Jesse - Jul 16, 2008 4:40:54 pm PDT #8262 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ouch, Sara. I hope it's NBT.
beth b - Jul 16, 2008 4:41:21 pm PDT #8263 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
If it is just tender to pressure -- it is the work . take drugs ( up to 4 advil -type) and ice your jaw-- should improve
tommyrot - Jul 16, 2008 4:47:57 pm PDT #8264 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
fLot's more detail on the PZ cracker kerfufle: [link]
Has quotes from PZ, from the death threat, from the death threat guy's "apology", etc.... (The guy made the threat using his wife's computer, with a 1800flowers.com email account.)
sarameg - Jul 16, 2008 4:49:02 pm PDT #8265 of 10003
I got novacaine in what felt like the joint at the back of my mouth (the tooth they needed to work on was backmost bottom) and again along the lower jaw. Twice, because I have weird nerve paths and halfway through drilling, I felt it in a bad way. That part isn't a surprise. I can't recall if it was when I had my wisdom teeth out or when I had 7 baby teeth pulled from the front, but they had a hell of a time knocking everything out. And the last time they did work on the bottom half, but I hadn't recalled the childhood stuff at that point.
My dentist wasn't surprised by the need for extra- she's got the same issues. It took 5 hours for the numbness to finally wear off.
I should just give her a call if it doesn't resolve. I'm just stung again by my irrational "maybe it'll go away and I'm just imagining it." Need to recall the orders to be a drama queen.
ETA: Not in Big Pain. In Pain Paranoia. It doesn't hurt, it's just noticeably not quite usual when I bite a certain way. And I can bite NOT a certain way, but ... It's like it is too loose or something and is pushed too far.