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.

Then another doctor told me that Advil was bad and I wasn't to take it ...

WTAF? Bad for you specifically, or bad as a blanket policy? Because obviously it's just fine for a lot of people. And if I recall that one This American Life (?) correctly, you're way less likely to overdose on Advil than Tylenol.

If there were warm fuzzy floaty feelings involved I might feel different, but for me it is extreme nausea and inability to function at any level.

Ah, so my experience both times I tried ecstasy.