All of my morning meetings got cancelled, so I'm just going to get some work done for a while until I go to a talk with Wendy Davis.

I am home today, getting ready to go to the endodontist so they can find out why the tooth they did a root canal on still hurts. I also have a tooth on the other side of my head which hurts so they are going to check that out. I also have a sinus headache.

Ow!

I have what is apparently sciatica. I'm not loving it. I also do not want to go to the doctor and be told I need another MRI.

Ow!

All of that sounds No Fun.

I'm pretty psyched that the meeting I was supposed to have from 11-12:30 tomorrow just got cancelled.

I am having sciatica pain too Dana, well numbness anyway. Numbness is definitely a step up from pain, but it still bugs. Hope you get relief soon.

Scrappy, you might see if the sinuses are causing the tooth pain. I was once having terrible pain in a tooth and had actually scheduled a root canal; the regular dentist had x-rayed the tooth and commented that my sinuses were full, so I tried using the equivalent of a neti pot and that pretty much eliminated the tooth pain.

You may have something more serious, but check the sinuses first ... you might save yourself some pain and hassle.

eating too many cookies to get rid of the box is 100% in the spirit of Shrove Tuesday, no?

Yes!

Ugh, sciatica and also tooth pain. Sympathies!

I am thinking Popeyes for lunch.

Nothing for Shrove Tuesday here. Maybe I will make pancakes or waffles for dinner tonight.

I made breakfast for dinner last night (yum!) but am now a little sad that I can't really justify doing the same thing tonight.

I have to write my self assessment by end of day Thursday.

Somehow I must find the fortitude not to copy and paste the shrug emoji 100 times.

What happened to those guys who used to running around hitting politicians with pies? Can we bring them back?

Scrappy, may you be on better terms with your skull soon.

I've been having twinges of what sounds like sciatica pain - rarely bad enough to even bother with aspirin - so when I saw on Facebook that Steph L. had liked or shared or commented on an article on a dozen or so exercises to do if you have sciatica to stretch and strengthen your piriformis (? did I get that right?) muscle, I decided to check it out. Most of 'em, I just don't bend that way. There was one whole exercise that I could do. So I have started doing it. Two things: 1) In the two days since, no twinges; and B) the interior of my butt muscles are sore and I blame Steph.

Ha! The piriformis is literally a pain in the ass. It can cause unholy hell. So anything that gets it to behave is a godsend.