Day after

[mrissa]

Well, it could be worse.

I'm still taking the T3, and the codeine has me a little mellower. Not much mellower, I hasten to add: of the last three books I've picked up, I flung two down in a fit of pique and spent the other rolling my eyes and thinking, "This is not a novel. It has to say 'a novel' on the cover, because otherwise you'd never know it wasn't a boring, themeless memoir." (But it was a boring, themeless, memoirish novel about the Winter War, so you see why I read it.) I have now picked up The Whim of the Dragon and am settling in making snurfling noises with it. And 15 minutes of ice on my face, and 15 minutes off. This shapes a person's day rather clearly. You can lie reading and moving the ice off and on and off again, and that's no problem, but you can't type in the "on" bits unless you're extremely good at doing it one-handed, and you can't do much else of length requiring two hands. I expect to shower in my next "15 off" cycle. I wouldn't be so stuck on doing it this way if it didn't so clearly provide relief: my jaw hurts considerably less with the ice on it, but my face starts to hurt from cold after too long. So it's a good cycle, really.

The only culinary failure so far: creme caramel yogurt is actually not a very good idea. At least not for feeding Mrissas. Apparently caramel and yogurt are things I like separately. Now we know. gaaldine's dill bell pepper soup is most excellent cold, which is a good thing, as I am not allowed hot things until Saturday.

My watch has stopped. Bother. But we have clocks all over the house, so not too much bother.

Be entertaining! I can read lj one-handed.

Comments

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

3 prunes per coedine pill. Chew on the right side.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Oh, boy. I totally know what you mean about the ice. Brings back memories of the jaw surgery. T3 is a pretty weak painkiller. There's stronger stuff out there that you could use. And you can combing ibuprofin with T3, in case your dentist didn't mention it. My goal always is zero pain. :-) I'll have to dig up some jokes or something for you.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The dentist said I should call him if the T3 wasn't working for me, but I think most of my wits and a dull throb is a fairly good compromise for me.

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

The ice pack cold dance is awfully frustrating, though, and it isn't fun when the medication begins to wear off. I'd watch it and consider advocating for vicodin (but only because percocet and I *really* do not get along).

As you know, my wisdom-teeth extraction went very smoothly, but my root canal surgeries have not, so I can *completely* sympathize with tooth pain, and although I don't generally advocate for "more drugs," this is one area I have learned that more drugs *can* be a very good thing, and not something you should hesitate too much on.

But you know your body better than I do.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I will keep an eye on it, I promise. I remember the story about you and percocet and how we're not doing that ever ever ever again.

[ellameena.livejournal.com]

Gah. I'm sorry for the pain. I was hoping for an easier time of it for you. I hope you are LOADS better tomorrow.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I watched "Galaxy Quest," which will make anyone feel better.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Clocks all over the house: that's good.

Sorry about ice and pain. I hope you have a quick recovery.

Mellow is good.

I can't imagine anything you write being boring.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you!

[greatestofnates.livejournal.com]

I have two dental icepacks that I tied around my head with a scarf. Did you get any of those? You can pretty much do any two handed activies you want if what you want involves no/slow head movement.

You can borrow mine if you want.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks, Yore, but I expect to be done with this 15 on/off routine not too long after you could get here, so I'll just cope with it this way.

[toolittletime.livejournal.com]

I haven't flung any books that I can recall, but did recently read one that was so bad (how bad? - Leonard Pinth-Garnell bad) it was truly fling-worthy. But I kept reading once the aliens appeared in the solar system. Because I just couldn't wait to see how the author was going to tie all together the Arab terrorists, the brave & stalwart warriors of the Southern United States, and the corrupt liberal government of the yankee US. And then he didn't. Right to the end, I kept hoping something would happen to make it all less of a waste of time. But once the aliens got close to earth and woke up to have random sex between officers and enlisted, they weren't mentioned again - at all.

As Mr. P-G might've said - "Stunningly bad! Astonishingly ill-chosen!"

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I didn't actually fling them. It was a figure of speech.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

What is T3?

I'm glad you're doing... well, as well as you possibly could be, I guess.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Tylenol 3. It's tylenol with codeine in it.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

I tried tying hot compresses to my head during the Allergic Conjunctivitis War of '05, but it didn't do much good.

I have read and enjoyed Singing Them Back, by the way, and will try to have comments to you by tomorrow evening.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, thanks.

:blink:

[one-undone.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe anyone could dislike creme caramel yogurt...the custard-style Yoplait creme caramel is my FAVORITE. Then again, I like all things caramel, especially caramel ice cream, but I guess to each his (her) own... I'm just stunned.

Hope you feel better soon, with or without creme caramel. Ice cream comes to mind as a comfort food I'd choose if my mouth hurt. Maybe you can look into that? Ice pops are on sale at Cub...

Re: :blink:

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's the stuff I tried. I usually love caramel, too, but I think mostly I've had caramel with sweet or bitter stuff, and the sourness in the yogurt was off-putting to me. So you can have my share!

What we should get you sometime is Blue Sky caramel ice cream. It is very, very good (but I ate the last of ours Tuesday). I like to have it with hot fudge. Caramel ice cream and hot fudge, ohhhhhhh so good.

Sigh. But I have ice cream in the freezer for this evening, so that'll be good.

Ice packs?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Gee, why does that sound familiar?

Re: Ice packs?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And now I've read your lj, so I don't have to say, "I dunno, Larry, why?", which is what I was thinking when I read this comment the first time.

I hope you feel better soon, too. (Not that I feel much better, just that I hope I do.)

Re: Ice packs?

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon too!

[zalena.livejournal.com]

The term "one-handed read" doesn't usually refer to oral surgery, but I'll see what I can do.

[pameladean]

I feel about yoghurt the way David feels about peanut butter -- it shouldn't have sweet things in it.

May the ice do its thing soon.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

But we all know he is a silly David because of the goodness that is apricot peanut butter. Hmm. Well, some of us know that, anyway.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And chocolate peanut butter ice cream! Oh!

markgritter may end up going to the store.

Dulche de Leche Ice Cream...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Haggen Daaz, I think It's not bad with the carmel thing.

Re: Dulche de Leche Ice Cream...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. That does sound good. Have you tried Blue Sky, though? They're local, and Byerly's has started carrying them. And they're made with liquid nitrogen, which makes my little former physicist heart sing.

Re: Dulche de Leche Ice Cream...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Not tried Blue Sky... The 2/$5 caught my eye last night at Lunds where I was stocking up on soft and cold foods for a reason that you are probably too familiar with.

Blue Bunny, while not local, also does some good carmel. I'll have to look for the Blue Sky brand.