Yikes!

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.

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.)

Man! Apparently my sinuses were all like "Hey, a tooth is gone? Squatter's rights! We're moving in!"

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.

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.

I had no idea the sinuses were so malleable.

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.

I had no idea the sinuses were so malleable.

Well, he did have to hit them fairly hard. (Not, like, hammering a nail into a wall, but harder than you would think for the human head. I may have to revise my opinion on trepanning.)

OMG, brenda, I just dipped into those Scandal recaps/reviews. Awesome!

NAWL, FITZ!!! What you NOT gon do is come for Liv like this! ALL THIS HATERATION IN HER DANCERIE!