X-post with Natter:
Whoa, a nerve block is IMPRESSIVE! Surgery went fine; I have 5 metal screws and a metal plate in my wrist. I woke up in a pretty serious amount of pain, and did actually ask for the nerve block the anesthesiologist had suggested probably would be desirable post-op.
Not only can I not feel a thing below my left elbow, my left forearm and hand are completely immobilized; I can't control it at all. Without the sling, it flops around like a dead fish! It's very, very strange and is supposed to last 12-14 hours.
And despite the anti-nausea patch they put on, I thought I would hurl when i got home and lay down, but didn't. I ate a piece of bread verrrrrry slowly, with sips of water. I tried to write something amusing, but my eyelids literally kept drooping shit and it was all:
myyyy===== ae \ ju7s kewe===
Mo, really. So I fell into bed for two hours, and up. Arm still completely as described before! DH made me broccoli and cheese soup and gave me a cookie, and I am drinking a huge glass of water with lemon: BLISS
oh, and ita !, this name convo is the perfect lead-in for something i have felt stupid for for YEARS: what IS your preferred pronunciation? I have been saying ee-TA, with a very defined strong "t."
I had to announce my friend and her new husband at their wedding reception and I realized right before that I had no idea how his (and now her) last name was correctly pronounced. So I ran around asking his family members and they all said it slightly differently! And said that it didn't matter! So I ran to quickly ask the groom & bride how they wanted me to pronounce it and they said they didn't care. IT WAS VERY STRESSFUL!
(FTR, the name is the same as one of the seven sisters' schools. The one affiliated with Columbia.)
I think it's interesting and kind of funny when people don't care how you pronounce their names. Although I think my mother doesn't really care how you say her first name.
I can't imagine not caring! My friends are pretty easy going people, though.
I sure care! And I feel horrible when I get a name wrong; names are important.
I'm not going to commit to any transliteration of the pronunciation. It's a reasonably long ee but the stress doesn't really go there.
FUCK. I forgot AGAIN to ask the migraine doctor for anti-nausea medication. Why do I never remember that in his office?
I go by Suzi because I hate correcting people on my given name. My parents were happy to find a name that would work both in Iran and America, didn't spell my name in a way that would help people pronounce it correctly. My aunt always spelled it Sussan (pronounced Sus-san). Instead people see Susan and say it Suz-in. I know it is(was) such a common name and my pronounciation is so odd, that I hate being picky.
How do people not care how their names are pronounced? Sure, I don't really care if I'm called Jilli or Jillian, but the pronunciation?
ION, have fallen into the rabbit hole that is "90s Goth" in the vintage section of Etsy. Send help.
My sister pronounces her name wrong. We say it lah rah in the family, but everyone else calls her low rah. So eventually she caved and changed, but I still maintain it is wrong.
I pronounce the Japanese part of my name a little wrong. Just a subtle difference in accent.
Unless I'm in Wisconsin, everybody pronounces my last name wrong. Sometimes I correct people, sometimes not.
It's weird when I tell someone my last name and 30 seconds later they're pronouncing it wrong.
