Say Anything.

:lmao

There's a gigantic hole in my mouth. I must have yelled out, 'OH MY JESUS' about a half a dozen times. blech.

I feel for you Roz, I had five taken out all at once 2 years ago :( I'm supposed to go get another pulled but they want to charge me $600 to do it!

With the gas it cost me 130 bucks. I can live with that, better than the 1500+ it would have cost for the root canal and crown.

I gotta say, I felt little to no pain last night after the numbing wore off. I took half a vicodin and slept restlessly though. This morning I'm in a little pain, but not near as much as I thought I would be. I don't even feel any swelling and dude was all up in my mouth, too. Took him a good 15 mins of pulling until he decided to crack it out. They showed it to me, all 4 pieces of it. O_o

*shudders* I had to be sedated, but I still remember most of it, liars! They did managed to get them all out whole though.

Booooo. When I had my multiple toof removal as a kid, they gave them all to me in a glass vial with some clear preserving fluid. I unfortunately shattered the vial when we moved, but the teeth landed in a drawer. I occasionally run into them when I look for things in there, which is kinda nostalgic.

I'm taking a summer course. A girl in the lab was talking to me while I waited for my class to start, and noticed she kept looking down at my shirt. I asked her what that look was for. I was completely unprepared for her response.

"You have headlights."

I had to call up a friend who has a rather nice rack to let her know that I learned what it felt like to be her. When I explained, she said, "Head lice?"

...oh boy.

I've been out cold for much of the day. I had no idea that spinal realignments had a side effect of full body fatigue.

Turns out my spine is fucked from neck to ass.

Everyone's heard the "S curve" description of the spine. Well, that S is more of a gradual thing, kind of like the curves in ( and ). My lumbar and sacral curvatures actually look almost exactly like an S, except the tips of the S don't actually curve back up or down. On the positive side, I no longer have a flat Asian backside. It's no ghetto booty, but now I don't have to put up with certain girls complaining that I have no ass (OK, not really an issue these days, but I'm trying to find a positive spin here).

My pelvis isn't level, which caused some lumbar scoliosis. That caused some cervical scoliosis. It's not enough to notice unless I stand still and you see my chin rests right of center.

My neck has a reverse curve. I was aware of that due to some x-rays that were taken when I first had a shoulder issue, but the doctor didn't say much else other than that I had the neck of a 50+ year old man when I was only 27. The chiropractor I just started going to showed me a side-by-side comparison with a normal neck and drew a line on mine where it's supposed to be. The difference is more defined than the difference between ( and ). Again, not noticeable unless I stop moving, but not good. In fact, my chiropractor said it's the worst case he's ever personally seen. It was scary, but now I'm kind of annoyed that my previous orthopedist didn't show me just how bad it was.

The scoliosis and neck problems are probably a root cause of my shoulder/back/chest issues. I've lost enough leverage in my left torso joints that my body is trying to compensate. Even though my left side is much weaker than my right, I was surprised to hear that the muscles in my back are significantly larger and more solid on the left side. If I were to suddenly regain full joint leverage, I'd be stronger on that side.

For the next 2 1/2 months, I'm scheduled for 24 treatments. In addition, I will be in daily traction for at least a year. Now that I've seen my x-rays, I'm freaking paranoid about anything I do. I'm afraid to relax in odd positions at all now. We discussed habits, and apparently my propensity to fall asleep sitting up with my head leaned forward is a large reason for my reversed neck curve.

...and I was hoping I could just get some clacker treatments like my friend had. Guess his issues weren't anywhere near as serious as mine.

The word 'ouch' comes to mind.

Hey...you know what they say about NY drivers? Well apparently it is true. I just snapped this photo on my way home. I am still laughing.

OMG!! I see things like that all the time and just can't imagine how someone could not know that happened. Too funny.

He was a young kid, the only thing I could think of was maybe he filled up and didn't have the money to pay for it?

Is that fake? How the hell would you not know you've just pulled off a hose that large? Wouldn't the damn thing like, jerk your car before it broke? o.O

Yeah that's gotta be one of those funny prop things. I'd totally use one. :teehee

If it's a fake, I'm sure it's illegal. There's a limit to how far you can have stuff extend out from your vehicle because you're at risk of smacking stuff or people with lethal force. Not that I remember what that length is. I think the last time I saw a gas tank prop was one of those Exxon tiger tails during their Driver Human campaign.

Did we run out of Exalted Crayons?

It wasn't fake, and I I don't think it was a prop. It was just a couple of feet away from me and I could see the wires dangling. I was totally amazed. And I did call the the local police. After some thought it occurred to me that maybe the kid filled up his tank and couldn't pay.

Wow, I feel like crap today :( I hate feeling crappy. Couldn't sleep last night, this morning I have a sore throat and I think I may have a fever... and here we have this big ol' conference coming up tomorrow and Friday at work. Blah.

Maybe I'll go home early today, and sleep the rest of the day and hope to feel better tomorrow. I bet it's all this shitty weather we've been having; too much freakin' RAIN!!

Blah.

Stuff like that doesn't happen in Jersey. :D

Why Michael...how long your nose has grown...:fib

No, we just stopped doing it because I got pregnant and wasn't able to focus much on anything. It's probably something we should pick back up again.