So I take it you didn't drive yourself to the dental appointment?
It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.
Mal ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
le nubian - Mar 29, 2013 11:19:48 am PDT #16506 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Connie Neil - Mar 29, 2013 11:22:57 am PDT #16507 of 30001
brillig
Holy Zenu, that sinus process sounds horrific. Just knowing it had been done to me would freak me out, forget feeling it.
Jesse - Mar 29, 2013 11:32:51 am PDT #16508 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yikes!
Steph L. - Mar 29, 2013 11:51:33 am PDT #16509 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
So I take it you didn't drive yourself to the dental appointment?
Heh. No, Tim drove me, saint that he is.
Holy Zenu, that sinus process sounds horrific. Just knowing it had been done to me would freak me out, forget feeling it.
I knew that I needed the "sinus tap," but the way he described it at the previous appointment was "We go in and just lift up the sinus floor, like a tent." THAT'S NOT HOW TENTS WORK.
Theodosia - Mar 29, 2013 11:52:57 am PDT #16510 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Yow! I had to have an MRI before my implant, to determine where my sinuses and nerves were, but they must have been sufficiently out of the way -- my small twisty sinuses, which clog up if you show them a picture of pollen, were at last good for something.
(Seriously, I had an ENT guy tell me that it's not that I'm very allergic, it's just that a normally mild amount of allergic reaction stops up the works.)
Steph L. - Mar 29, 2013 11:56:26 am PDT #16511 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Man! Apparently my sinuses were all like "Hey, a tooth is gone? Squatter's rights! We're moving in!"
Dana - Mar 29, 2013 11:59:07 am PDT #16512 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Fucking sinuses, man.
Entertaining things I've been told by medical professionals: that I clot very quickly, so I don't have to worry about bleeding out if I ever get shot, and that it was a good thing I didn't want kids because my cervix is tilted and it would be hard to conceive.
flea - Mar 29, 2013 12:02:59 pm PDT #16513 of 30001
information libertarian
My first gynecological exam (when I was 18 and a virgin), the nurse midwife told me I had a tipped uterus and I might find intercourse painful with a well-endowed male partner and if this was so, I should try female superior position. I was like, good to know, I just wanted to make sure I didn't have a secret ovarian cyst the size of a grapefruit like my best friend from high school.
Connie Neil - Mar 29, 2013 12:12:54 pm PDT #16514 of 30001
brillig
I had no idea the sinuses were so malleable.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 29, 2013 12:18:36 pm PDT #16515 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I think my only outlier issue is unusual sensitivity to cholesterol drugs. Taking them daily (as is normal) resulted in me healing really slowly, bruising at the slightest impact, and having worryingly elevated liver enzymes. Luckily half the frequency works fine with no side effects.
My parents, though, have had a number of medical oddities that have stumped doctors, including Mom having hooked carotid arteries that made it appear as if she had 90% blockages on both sides of the neck when she got a CAT scan, and doctors not being able to find Dad's gall bladder at all until they were actually performing surgery on it.