Stop internetting, meara! It's all right, you'll be fine! Step away from Dr. Google.

Here's a quick *cough* meara, since I've been away for a minute.

Owwww. I hate being broken. And I hate having to inject myself with blood thinner, it hurts. And I don't reallt want to go back to work at all, but can't really justify that just because of a broken ankle, when I work from home! I just want to whine and complain, today :(

I feel like I should have complained more. I feel like I missed a great opportunity to whine and bitch, just, a lot.

I injected myself with Heparin for a week, and then I quit. What's the advantage of the injections over a blood thinner like Xarelto? Did they talk about that with you?

fwiw, I still have a prescription for Percocet, and I take one when it hurts too much to walk or rest. If you're hurting, take it; that's what it's for. IANAD

IDK the difference between Percocet and Oxycodone

For me, it's the blessed relief of pain combined with opioids making me feel warm and fuzzy at the edges. I don't understand taking them recreationally, but they are THE BEST for me when the pain is really bad.

That's pretty much my reaction. "Warm and fuzzy" being the opposite of tense and anxious, which is my normal setting. To me, opioids are like chocolate cake: I really enjoy it when I have it, but I wouldn't eat it every day.

(which also involved going up a full flight of stairs on my butt)

oh please let me never have to do that ever again

That's how I met some good friends of Katie's: scooching up their front steps on my rear. That's how you make a good impression, I tell you what.

my whole lower leg feels swollen and tingly

IME that's normal. It hasn't even been a month since the fall and the surgery. I'm sick of patience, so you can have my share of it :-)

WindSparrow, I hope Effexor works well for you.

The doctor cut me off late last year and I was able to cut back gradually. Then another doctor told me that Advil was bad and I wasn't to take it ... leaving me with Tylenol, which does nothing.

Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of.

ocular migraine

Theo, if possible, get your eyes checked. I had two ocular migraines in my life, within weeks of each other, and it turned out I'd had a small tear in my retina. It healed by itself, but it might have been better for me to have seen the optometrist after the *first* one.

Phantom itches are the devil.

New kitty! What did you name him?

Thanks Zen, I know you get it!!

Not sure why the injectable blood thinner rather than some other—it's lovenox not heparin but still. Ick.

I feel like "going up stairs on my butt" is going to be a several month past time for me. Thankfully it's been dry here but one of these days I may need a butt poncho? And yeah, it's only been a week and a half since surgery, two and a half since the accident. Time is both flying and crawling.

IDK the difference between Percocet and Oxycodone

Oxycodone is just the opioid (with no added acetaminophen, etc.), and percocet is oxycodone with acetaminophen. #themoreyouknow

Timelies all!

We are now home from the con. Tired.

To me, opioids are like chocolate cake: I really enjoy it when I have it, but I wouldn't eat it every day.

That's it exactly. Plus I'm pretty sure I don't have an addictive personality type; Back In The Day when I smoked, quitting took about a day.

Mind you, quitting coffee isn't ever going to happen, but I've been drinking some form of coffee since I was 10.

I probably would eat chocolate cake every day, if that was easy to do. I have been scared of opiates and opioids (is there a difference?) since I read Kubla Kahn in high school and was all, Coleridge was on something I would like way too much, so I've hardly every taken them. Pretty much only when I was in a lot of pain and I didn't notice anything besides not-in-so-much-pain, which was nice. I have been told by people for whom opiates are a prime addiction that it's not so much a high as a comfortable everything-is-ok-and-if-it-isn't-it-doesn't-matter feeling that they just want to get back to.

Opium dens were known to be full of people just lying around smoking and dreaming.

ION, I did a Google search for "low-carb snacks that don't suck", and it's surprising how many results came up with "that don't suck" in the title. I sense a trend with low-carb snacks. However, many of them were preaching the "joy" of celery, so my dream of low-carb popcorn seems as far away as ever.

Pork rinds

My coworkers are pooling their money for the megamillions jackpot. I declined to join in, but one of them says she'll hire me as a salaried financial consultant, so that'll do.