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August 30th, 2010 by Echos

I Choose

The problem with getting my butt out of bed before noon, and getting all my work done by noon, is that by 2:30 in the afternoon, I’m exhausted. Doc Mick says it’s because I took my Roxanol and that will cause sleepiness. Well, duh. But I wasn’t expecting it to make me sleepy since I have taken narcotics in pill form before, and they never really did anything like this to me before.

Some problems have come up at home. Mainly involving an argument about child care for Chloe, between Dennis and I. See, he called my mother over yesterday to watch Chloe while he slept off his pain meds and I was at the store. My mother and I do not see eye to eye about how a child should be raised, and she did something that neither I nor medical science agrees with, and it ended when I banned her from our home. I demanded to know why Dennis let her around our kids. Dennis said she was the only one who would watch them. I said they would have been better off alone than in her care. They certainly would be safer.

But I choose not to reveal what she did, least someone wants to make my flesh world a little harder. There is no more danger to my kids, the house is clean, and we’re reaching for that happy ending.

Today, Chloe was able to go back to school. I was able to organise the bedroom, so the closet doors shut without the laundry basket in the way. Dennis is going to the studio after a while, and there’s really nothing for me to do but try to nap away the effects of the Roxanol.

August 28th, 2010 by Echos

Hazy Mornings

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I was sick this morning. Vomiting. Hurting. Probably side-effects from the morphine I was given at the hospital. They sent me home with prescriptions for morphine. My doctor is not going to like this at all. I still have some more work to get done around here, but I am taking the morning easy. Let it last all day.

August 18th, 2010 by Echos

A Day About Nothing

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I wonder why Doc Mick upped my medication from Vicodin to Oxy? I have not taken any, too scared of the unknown side effects, but I’m curious as to why he’d do something like that. He also just gave me a bottle of Oxy in his office yesterday, in case I couldn’t make it to the drug store. I have a headache right now, but the hard parts are over. I won’t be needing anymore surgeries or procedures done for another year. I’m really happy about that. Does it mean that I’m getting well? The doctors I have rarely tell me anything. Doc Mick just drugs me and tells me to close my eyes and ‘not watch’ the procedures. But my morbid curiosity takes over, and I watch. This has annoyed him in the past, and he ups my dosages. I go back to see him Monday to get the stitches pulled. Then it’s over. I don’t go back for another year or so. Lucky, lucky me. I finally find a doctor who takes my pain seriously and gives me treatments that actually work and I can only see him once a year. That’s a good thing, I hope.

The weather has been strange here. It was “cold” yesterday and today. 68 was the high. For August, that’s not bad. It was October weather in the middle of summer. I’m torn between shutting the air conditioner off and turning it on after having a hot flash. The weather has made me restless. My sudden lack of pain has made me energetic. I want to go out and play in the nice weather while I can, but I devoted myself to solving the problems at home, first.

My monkeys have transformed to monsters. They trash the house. Let the dogs out the front door, where there’s no fenced yard. Turn the pet rat loose in the house. Dump food out of the cabinets and ice box. Dump trash out of the cans. Pull the sheets off mommy’s bed. Chloe even unplugged my bed; in both areas, and when I laid down today, water gushed out of the mattress all over me! All of them, except for Hayley, are acting up. No amount of sending them to their rooms or locking things up seem to help. When all else fails, they tear up the carpet and peel the wall paper off the walls. This transformation has come because mommy and daddy are mad at each other and they can feel the tension. They’ve guessed that if mommy and daddy are mad at them, we can’t be mad at each other anymore. It’s brilliant, really. They have outsmarted and out numbered us, and their plan worked. For now. There are deeper issues that have to be surfaced, and those issues aren’t going to be resolved overnight, nor will they be solved in front of the kids. We’re going to talk about this. Not tonight, because I’ve got a migraine starting, but soon.

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August 1st, 2010 by Echos

No Pain

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For the first time in nearly a month, I woke up with no pain whatsoever in my teeth! Since the Fourth of July, I had problems with my teeth that were constant. No matter what I did, brushed, flossed, rinsed with Listerine, rinsed with a cloves and alcohol solution, caked my teeth and gums in EMLA or Orajel, the pain was always there. I even resorted to asking my doctor for narcotics, and that did no good. He has this thing about not giving me pain medication, since I’m an addict and all. But today? There was no pain. I could chomp down, and there was no tenderness. I can touch my teeth, and there’s no pain. I even ate some waffles with butter and maple syrup, and chewed a little on the worked on side (not a lot, because I have temporary caps), and there was no pain at all! Trust me, just getting rid of pain this severe makes all the difference in the world.

I’ve been saving this little neat tidbit, but here goes: I have/had an octo-rooted tooth. Normally, teeth have two main roots. I had a tooth that had five main roots and three minor roots that branched off of the main roots. It really made my dentist’s day. Yep, look at me. The medical freak. When I go back next week, I’ll try to get a copy of my x-rays and post it here. You know you wanna see that!

Oh, I’m in a good mood today. I don’t know why. I have to go back to work tomorrow, and it’s the last week of freedom that I have for a few days. Maybe it’s all the narcotics I swallowed while I was waiting on my waffles to toast?