Some days life gets in the
way.
Friday, Oct. 11, 2013
I had
plans for yesterday and then I had to have my cap put on......
Things
really were going great. I got up early though I had very little
sleep. I got the business and personal banking done. Then we headed
for the dentist to replace my cap that popped off. We were 40 minutes
early but they managed to take me in early even though I was enjoying
a magazine and would have been comfy for an hour or more in their
waiting room. Hey, free coffee and tea is a senior's morning dream
come true plus free ac and a place to sit. I was happy.
I had
forgotten that to glue a cap on your tooth, they have to take a cord
and wrap it around the tooth so there is room between the gum and
tooth to slip the cap down. That cord is nasty. That cord really,
really hurts but my strategy is to first ask to be numbed (mother
didn't raise dumb kids) and then remember what it felt like to have a
needle of Novocaine stuck in the end of my nose. That last piece
makes getting your arm chopped off with no anesthesia seem like a
walk in the park. Finally, the cap was on and ready to chew but I was
nicely numb making it hard to drink anything so let's just forget
chewing.
After
making my appointment for the next cap which will be done from start
to finish in one morning – I love them – and a cleaning we were
off to Harbor Freight. I did notice they make the next appointments
and take the deposit while you are numb. Half way through Harbor
Freight when the numbness wore off and I would have let George buy
anything to get back in the Van. YEEEE....OUCH. I was so thankful I
had a prescription for pain medication. A drink of really ice water
as most of it was still frozen had me actually thinking I was going
to make it to Bedner's and beyond.
About 2
minutes into Bedner's the frozen wore off and I bought a frozen
banana. They have the best frozen bananas (I went for
chocolate/coconut covered), orange juice and everything else. Who am
I kidding? You can't go wrong at Bedner's. I also got some organic
teas, key lime juice with no insecticides and bottled (you know a pie
is coming up), squash and 3 gorgeous tomatoes plus a loaf of their
fresh olive bread. Their walnut raisin bread is to die for, too. The
banana numbed my jaw, again.
Half way
home, the banana stopped working because I finished it in the parking
lot and I went back to frozen water which would work for a few
minutes. By the time I got to the neighborhood, I was almost seeing
double and the pain was off the scale. Off the scale in my world is
probably you passed out 20 minutes ago in your world because I have
one heck of a pain tolerance. I zipped into the house and grabbed one
of my left over pain pills and hoped for instant effect.
Instant
effect doesn't happen with pills but when it did decide to lower the
level of pain I was over joyed. I will take what I can get. A few
hours later, I discovered I not only had not gotten knocked out
probably because my jaw was still hurting, but I was zipping around
doing all sorts of work. A couple of hours later I noticed I had
surpassed what I normally can do in a week and sat down to ponder
this development. There was a ripple in the Force! Was I in an
alternative reality? Twilight Zone music please play. Then it hit me.
The Pain Pill had knocked out all my other pain leaving just the jaw
which I can deal with on a good day.
Good
Goddess, this is what my life would be like without inflammation from
environmental poisons and Fibromyalgia which may be due to a lifetime
of eating poisons from big business. I really, really want to beat
the heads of some corporations to death very slowly and painfully for
what they have done to you and me, because I do NOT want to spend the
rest of my life on drugs that have probably been designed to kill me
and you because of what they fed us to make an obscene profit for
themselves. I really want to hurt them. I am really angry
Then I
see your children struggling down the street. I was a pain management
specialist when I could work an 8 hour day. I know pain when I see
it. You can't fool me. I know the posture, the breathing and
expression on your face as the lines are etched there for your old
age. I know these kids do not feel good. I see the background pain on
their faces as they pause at the corner more to rest than wait for
the red light. Heck, when I was a kid, we would have grabbed the
books and ran it. We couldn't wait to get home and drop those books
and RUN outside and PLAY. Your kids can't wait to drop in front of
the computer. It's not because they are LAZY. Kids want to run, jump
and play. If they are sitting there, they don't feel like it.
Get a
dose of speed and see if you can sit still and play a video game.
Nope...have to move. Kids are like adults on speed. They have to
move. Their muscles demand it so they can stretch and grow. It is a
biological imperative. Birds even move while in the egg. Babies don't
kick in the womb because of any cognitive reasoning. They kick so
their arms and legs stretch and grow and develop muscle tone so they
will survive after birth. Next time you get a groan from your kid
when you want them to do something, instead of screaming at them, sit
down and find out if why they don't want to get up is stubbornness or
pain. It may take a while, because if they are younger, pain may be
the only thing they have ever known.
Are you
angry yet?
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