Oog. Sinuses are airtight (zing!) proof against "intelligent design". Intelligent design would've involved a simple, trouble-free replaceable-element air filter of some kind. You remind me exactly of my trip to a foreign (San Diego) ER very early in the morning about 14 years ago. Aside from the axe-to-the-head pain, I remember noticing they just took my name, address, and SSN at my word, so--being uninsured at the time--I could've given 'em any bogus info and stuck 'em with the bill, but I was in too much pain to even consider it. And your description of pain meds taking effect and after-discharge pancakes Yep, spot on ('cept with me it was pierogies). Now quit reminding me of my kidney stones, durnit!
Kidney stones! Poor you-I've heard they're excruciating. I wouldn't even trade my headache for one of those.
If I were a narcissist I'd claim that God invented the sinuses to make my life miserable. I've had three surgeries thus far, the latest in late 2010, and know of people who've had twice that number.
I've been my dad's 'primary caregiver' since summer, and the worst of the headache was the intensified throbbing when I was engaged in the stoop labor that's part of caregiving: all that blood rushing to the head. It was so awful it was almost-Almost!-funny. :)
I very heartily unrecommend kidney stones. There is a finite but nonzero number of people in this world upon whom I wish them. You're not on that list.
Sinus surgery? Ack. Closest I've come is my tonsils out and uvula shortened in 2007, which cured my snoring for awhile (it's back now). But my sinuses never work right, just less poorly on some days. I'm guessing they're scarred from all the sinusitis I had as a teenager.
(Christ, am I really sitting around bitching about my medical problems? Somebody fetch me a Geritol.)
Tell me about it. Last year, I and a friend I've known since first grade I fell into a discussion of bowel movements, for land's sake. Eventually we looked at each other at the same time and sort of gasped. Shit! We really are old now! Sort of made it official.
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If I were a narcissist I'd claim that God invented the sinuses to make my life miserable. I've had three surgeries thus far, the latest in late 2010, and know of people who've had twice that number.
I've been my dad's 'primary caregiver' since summer, and the worst of the headache was the intensified throbbing when I was engaged in the stoop labor that's part of caregiving: all that blood rushing to the head. It was so awful it was almost-Almost!-funny. :)
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Sinus surgery? Ack. Closest I've come is my tonsils out and uvula shortened in 2007, which cured my snoring for awhile (it's back now). But my sinuses never work right, just less poorly on some days. I'm guessing they're scarred from all the sinusitis I had as a teenager.
(Christ, am I really sitting around bitching about my medical problems? Somebody fetch me a Geritol.)
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Tell me about it. Last year, I and a friend I've known since first grade I fell into a discussion of bowel movements, for land's sake. Eventually we looked at each other at the same time and sort of gasped. Shit! We really are old now! Sort of made it official.
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