Up front: I’m fine, everything is ok. I went to the ER last night. I had sudden excruciating abdominal pain that caused muscle spasms that made it feel like my ribs were going to snap. Nothing showed up on a CT and X-ray, so they gave me a bunch of meds for acid and other stomach issues.

Because of all this, I learned that morphine doesn’t really do anything for me, and I am big mad about that.

{{{Atropa}}}

Does that mean laudanum is no good?! The betrayal!

I think I've had the junior version, Atropa, enough to make me feel like I shouldn't laugh at congresspeople who think gas is a heart attack.(It can feel like that.) glad they didn't find anything serious. the morphine/laudanum news isn't what I'd picture either, -T.

Oh gosh, Atrops, that’s terrifying! Opiates haven’t worked well for me either (fortunately have never *really* needed them; post surgery I’ve made do with NSAIDS).

Grr. My doggo is 5. He’s been very good for years about staying in the little yard I have. I have part of it blocked off with a little fence. He could totally jump over it or push it over if he wanted but he doesn’t, and normally doesn’t leave unless I’ve accidentally left it open. But twice now recently he’s somehow escaped! So now I have to figure out how and how to stop him!

(He was just out and then came back in…and a dude rang the doorbell a few minutes later because he’d seen Rory roaming around in the neighbors yard, unbeknownst to me! Then he came home, apparently, which is good, but free range in the big city is not good)

I’m glad things worked out in the end, Atropa. But I’m sorry you were in such pain. Morphine, you had one job!

Ditto what Cali said, Atropa. New pain like that is scary.

Rory, escape artist is not something you need to add to your resume! Settle down, pup.

Doctor (who is awesome), lunch with friends, braces off -- that's my plan today. Woot!

It truly sucks that you only find out that opioids don't work until you are in pain. Hope you have no recurrence and the tummy drugs work well. (I can't do opioids at all)

Woot! No braces! Heed dcp's warnings!

meara, maybe consider a wireless fence to keep Rory where he belongs?

When I was a teenager, I wore retainers (top and bottom) for twelve months. That summer, on the flight back to the U.S. for vacation, I took my retainers out to eat dinner, failed to put them back in afterwards, and fell asleep. When I woke up, my tray-table had been cleared, and the retainers were gone. I had to go back to the galley and search through all the trolleys of meal trays to find them.

Agh!

I put my Invisaligns in my bra. This only works if one has a bra, but it works particularly well.

Yikes, Atropa -- I'm glad you're okay, but those are freaky symptoms! I definitely would have gone to the ER, too.

More onerosity finished and/or under way:

Zepbound ordered
Sent message to OB/GYN to ask if I need to be tested/vaccinated for HPV because of Tim's exciting new cancer
Still need to reschedule colonoscopy b/c I accidentally scheduled it the same day as PT (and while I know how important a colonoscopy is, PT appointments are hard to come by—they're seriously overbooked—and my right hip/quad/knee pain is pretty bad)
And, you know, gotta keep working