many steps back

Had my teeth yanked around yesterday, and last night for the first time in many months I was awakened from a pretty deep sleep by excruciating pain in the lower right side of my jaw (where all the Trouble started). Of course the tooth with the root canal couldn't hurt, but everything around it could, and since the project has basically been to tug at the ligaments until they give up and align a different way, I'm a little surprised this hasn't happened until now. Fortunately I remembered what it was like, before, when I was waking up with that kind of pain every night; I went and grabbed a handful of ibuprofen (and brought the bottle in to leave on my nightstand against the same issue tonight), and then lay carefully still until it kicked in and I could sleep again. This morning it feels definitely bruised, hard to say if it's swollen, and I was so bewildered at breakfast time that I had to remind myself not to pour the coffee into the toaster.



I don't have anything intelligent to say about London's burning. It breaks my heart, and when I see headlines or hear sound bites from David Cameron it makes me furious - as if wagging one's finger and saying "You lot stop being oppressed right this minute" could possibly help.

not that it really matters, but no, the deer didn't hit you.

( Pretty upsetting for (unintentional) animal harm. )

in better news, i saw the neurologist today.

After some scheduling snafus that I don't feel like ranting about, my follow-up with the neurologist was today. He said all my tests were normal except for a slight disc-alignment issue on the MRI of my neck, but he doesn't even think that's what's causing my headaches and dizziness; he's sure that's muscle tension and fixable with physical therapy and he gave me a prescription for a muscle relaxant just for the beginning of the process AND A REFERRAL TO A PHYSICAL THERAPIST IN THE SAME BUILDING AND I AM GOING IN FOR THE EVALUATION TOMORROW MORNING.

I'm sorry to raise my voice, but this has been since Memorial Day and it's been a lot of sitting around and waiting and now NOT ONLY DO I HAVE WHAT LOOKS LIKE AN ANSWER ABOUT WHAT'S WRONG BUT I ALSO HAVE SOMETHING I CAN DO TO MAKE IT BETTER.

YOU GUYS.

fannish news

ellen_fremedon has got me started reading the Vorkosigan novels.

Please go get squee-ful at her; she's been instructed to stop even talking about how excited she is for what I've got to come next, because she's flirting dangerously with the Spoiling Fox line, and I've called it off. :-)

[eta: I, er, didn't mean to choose the "angry" mood at all. Fixing that now.]

by the way also

If you didn't click through the earlier entry that was warned for animal harm - you could probably draw conclusions from the fact that I was posting cheerily for the rest of the day, but in case you were concerned, no, there was no Fox-deer collision at any time.

and finally

Metaxalone, 800 mg.

CRIKEY.

Better take my contacts out before I do any other getting-ready-for-bed stuff, in case I can't stay upright that long ...