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Free vasectomy cautery with purchase of x-ray!

May 17, 2009 17:23

Hokay, vicodin makes typing a little more bearable. In fact, it makes everything more bearable. I'm in my happy place!

Good news: At the ER this morning they got three x-rays of my thumb, and didn't see a break! So my record of having no broken bones is still, well, unbroken (the x-ray tech was hot and looked like Goran Visnjic from ER, which ( Read more... )

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felislachesis May 18 2009, 00:05:49 UTC

^_^ glad I could help.

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kaote May 18 2009, 03:36:41 UTC

The wisdom teeth extraction wasn't nearly as painful as I'd come to expect. I thought it was quite easy actually. The dry socket a few days afterwards, however...

I have yet to have any jaw surgery, but that may be in the cards for me at some point down the road. Too bad they couldn't make the painkillers taste like bubble gum or cherry flavor! :) Thankfully I have no trouble sleeping, even when stuff hurts. Last night my splint came off in my sleep and I did wake up to that, but I just put it back on and went right back to sleep.

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kaote May 18 2009, 22:29:57 UTC

Yargh! I could deal with all of that except the vomiting blood. That sounds pretty extensive - glad it was a long time ago at this point. :)

flaggerx May 18 2009, 03:23:16 UTC

Ow. That hurts just thinking about it. I do stuff like that semi-regularly at work (generally of a smaller scale though) and I can imagine work will not be much fun tomorrow.

Glad you got help.

kaote May 18 2009, 03:46:51 UTC

It's been awhile since I injured myself with tools so I guess it was long overdue. As long as no permanent damage is done I can generally handle it - that thumb has seen some rough treatment over the years and it keeps healing back just fine. It can't be any worse than the time I accidentally sanded the nail off with a power sander...

There are certain accepted occupational hazards in being a weekend Viking - not only from the actual fighting but from making the gear as well. :)

I think work will actually be quite fun tomorrow. It's hard to be stressed out when you're on the narcs.

flaggerx May 18 2009, 22:50:18 UTC

When I started investigating SCA armor (are you a member?) I was quickly warned about the importance of hand protection, in fact people check each other's gear.

I'm glad you have the drugs. Sometimes nothing is better than chemical cruise control. Do the thorazine shuffle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4s4hW-oGZ0

kaote May 18 2009, 23:11:30 UTC

Heh, I was a member of SCA for about 10 years, and did a little fighting there, mainly practices and whatnot. That's where I originally got bitten by the "whack people with weapons" bug. :) Unfortunately I sold my old armor when I moved, or I would have been able to hook you up.

My actual gloves for fighting are great, but I had them off so I could handle the little carpet tacks holding the lining on my shield. Next time I will be a little smarter and use some needlenose piers... oh well, live and learn, and get some special happy pills along the way. :)

grouchyoldcoot May 18 2009, 04:48:02 UTC

Did you ever see the movie "Unbreakable"?

kaote May 18 2009, 22:31:39 UTC

Don't want to push my luck quite that much :) But given the nature of most of my hobbies, the fact that my skeleton remains intact is a minor miracle.

This icon of mine has a delicious flavor of irony these days...

my_personal_sin May 18 2009, 05:54:47 UTC

hurts like perkele

You know I just broke of laughing like a maniac when I read that one :DD Never seen the word used that way and what was funny about it when I thought about it, is that it actually is in a way "grammatically correct". I mean in the sense that we use the word at least. Haha, we might say "sattuu perkeleesti" which is the same actually :D

Oh, but you just caught my attention totally and I almost fell off the chair. :D

And, I think I can symphatize with your thumb since it's only few weeks that I cut my index finger with a knife and got myself quite a wound... I still can't use the finger properly and I bet it's never going to work the way the other fingers do. Also, it has quite a remarkable scar in it.. Yay me.

Hope your thumb will heal quickly. :)

kaote May 18 2009, 22:19:49 UTC

When English fails, Finnish usually has the right words for the occasion...

I think I have heard people say something like "hurts like dammit" but using "perkele" lends a certain character to the phrase. :) Well, Ismo Alanko puts it pretty well too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PbWsF-8aJU

Sorry to hear about your finger - scars are metal, though!