Monday and A Rough Start

NOTE to squeamish readers: you might want to avoid this one if dental work weirds you out.

So there I was ... two weeks ago with a molar broke in two, and the filling fell out. That turned into  a toothache turned an abscess, which engendered a script for an antibiotic. Now, six days later, out the little bugger came. 

Which required the assistance of a drill, and removal by the numbers: first piece, second piece, and so on.

The process didn't take a long time, which is a very good thing.

But now I'm on 800 mg of Ibuprofen and Vicodin for the next few days (if it goes that long). I'm fortunate to have a fairly high pain threshold. 

sigh ...

The weather continues its strange ups-and-downs. It was warm two weeks ago, with highs in the 40s which melted a great deal of the snow. Then last week it got cold, but still no snow. Yesterday the low was 14°, rising to a blistering high of 15° with a half-inch of snow. Oh, and a heavy fog for the second time in the last few days.

This morning it's 18, and AccuHunch insists that we might get a bit of the white stuff. Time will tell. 

So the day will be a quiet one. That's a good thing.

Post-Oral Surgery

After all the digging, cutting, sawing, pulling, reaming, bone-scraping and stitching, I have just one word to say: OWW. I never experienced the joy of a circular saw in my mouth, before. Fun? Not so much. All I can say is, if the exposed portions of those molars had been as bullet-proof as their roots, they wouldn't have needed extraction.

Now for the Oxycontin/ibuprofen mix from the doctor ... Pain? What pain?

Friday Again

It's 1 degree above zero at my place this morning, and AccuHunch guesses it might be as cold as 5 below by noon. Is Algore in town?

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We have another Christmas party to attend tonight, at the 5-star hotel downtown where my wife used to work. As a treat to ourselves, we booked a room for the night. Just because.

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My back hurts worse this morning than yesterday at this time, most likely because I insisted on going to work yesterday. I took a double-dose of pain pills while ago, and those should be kicking in soon. At least I hope so; it would be nice to walk today.

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There are no big news stories today, if the local paper is any guide - debatable as that is. We'll see what the day brings.

Snowy Weather, Day 2

The winter weather advisory doesn't sound as bad as they first made it out to be: 3 to 7 inches, all told. That constitutes "light snow", here. I hope you like the pictures; younger daughter took them for me, as I can only stand for a few seconds at a time.

Have I mentioned that lower back pain sucks is awful?

Hump Day Hurt

In 1974, in the Navy & stationed overseas, I managed to break three vertebrae in my lower back. I'm a life member of the Disabled American Veterans, but manage to go about my life with hardly an issue, most of the time.

Every once in awhile, I manage to do something that puts me down ... like this morning, carrying laundry down the stairs. As I reached the bottom stair, something internal suddenly gave way, and I just barely avoided falling as my knees buckled. I had to crawl back upstairs (embarassing!) and can sit, after a fashion, but can't stand or walk.

I was going to mention the snowstorm that's dumping multiple feet of snow in areas to the east and south of us, with some coming here today & tonight. But what the heck: it's December in Alaska, and no one is going to be surprised by a snowstorm.

So have a great day, & I'll try to come up with something more entertaining after the Celebrex kicks in.