It's D-Day Tuesday MKF 7/22

[PandoraSpocks]

Thanks, thankfully it won't be for a long time, probably not til I'm in my late thirties (something to look forward to)

[Kalita]

Well, I've had SIX teeth pulled. So far.

Y'see, the first four were my front incisors, they pulled 'em to free up room in my mouth. Three years of braces shifted everything into place.

Now my wisdom teeth aren't doing too well, even though they have lots of room back thare, so they're taking them out in phases.

I had the right two pulled back in May. I wasn't expecting much trouble, 'cuz I never had much with the incisors. Except incisors have two, sort roots; wisdoms have 4 big ones. I was in agony for about a week, and the Tylenol bottle became my best friend.

Well, now that I've grossed everyone out, on to other things...

The leader of the oldest church on the planet arrived in my city today, and I couldn't care less. Say what you want about the Pope's great leadership or his dealing with crippling diseases, I cannot say anything positive about a man with as much contempt as he has for the status of women and gays.

On the flip side of the coin, another church has chosen someone who understands how the world works, it seems. I'll keep an eye on this guy, he looks like he'll do a good job.

[urnofosiris]

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Ah, Garfield, my boy. I know I can always count on you to withstand my occasional bouts of lunacy

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Oh crap, why do I only get quoted when I make a spelling error? I forgot the ass in assured, can you believe that? Between your bouts of lunacy and my attacks of anal retentiveness our offspring will probably put the next generation of shrink kids through college.

[The Next Tara Maclay]

I hope it goes well!

[AlexisMQ]

mmmmm.... vicadin is very, very lovely too.

[Loco2]

*shudder* 4 teeth pulled.....been there, done that. blech...it's got to be one of the most horrible experiences in the world, especially if they have big roots. (and i thought having really big roots on my teeth was a good thing, made 'em stronger or something....) and the bite on the gauze thing doesn't work, either, if anything it makes 'em bleed more. and then the anisthetic wears off and it's all of the very very bad. you got me in kinda a cold sweat just thinking about it. blech - you not afraid of the dentist, have 4 teeth pulled and think again.

i am so sorry for you.

it was less horrible to get knocked out in an underpass and scarpe half the skin off my shoulder. yeow. (hee hee, damn backwards roller blading)

i hope you get better, soon. and i think the ice cream thing is about right. and then, of course, when they are getting better, have sex. obviously. hee hee.

steph

[magickalbear]

Hope this doesn't end up as a double post... the board doesn't like me today I suppose.

Hiya kittens.. guess I get to share my wisdom teeth stories

I had all four of mine removed in one sitting, but I was unconcious for the whole ordeal.My appointment was at 6 in the morning a month after I turned 18. My boyfriend talked to my parents (cause I still lived with them at the time) and got their permission to stay over while I was recovering (being as my parents are kinda conservative and all). We go the oral surgeon's office bright and early and I am scared out of my mind. I go into the operating area and they hook me up with a heart monitor and they start trying to do an injection in the back of my hand.. well, they couldn't find the vein and they are just digging around and they push the sodium pent through and it missed the vein so I end up with a big knot of medicine in my hand that hurt incredibly.. when the male nurse (who was kinda cute in a Sadist kinda way) tried again with a new syringe, I grabbed him by the *ahems* and started yelling incoherently as my hand was in all kinds of fiery pain.. I was squeezing so hard that they had to gas to me sleep in order for me to release the nurse Next thing I know, I'm waking up in the recovery area and feel slightly queasy, but no pain. They give me a couple of prescriptions for a pain killer cocktail (as I am very resistant to pain meds they gave me Demoral and Vicadin to take together.. woo and hoo ) My dad was driving that day, and me in my semi-consious stupor announced that I had to go pick up my paycheck from my job and get my schedule for next week while I was there, so we go by the ice cream shop I worked at and I go in, a drooling slobbering mess, and pick up my check. Lemme tell ya, I got more than a few strange looks during that encounter with my boss Next stop is the bank to cash the check.. We go through the drive through at my bank and my dad passes the check to the teller and she wants to know if I am in the car.. so I do my best to sit up (cause I was laying down in the back seat) and just end up waving my hand out the window, leaving my dad to explain that I was really groggy and such. We get back to my house (with money in my pocket) and the pain killers they had given me at the surgeons office started to wear off, so I send my ever faithful dad to get my medications, as well as a Slurpee and some Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream. He gets back, I slug some pain meds back with my slurpee and I proceed to sleep for the next 16 hours When I woke up the next day, I was still really disoriented, but in no pain. I was hungry so I decided to go cook myself some sausages for breakfast. Not being totally coherent, I put too much oil in the pan and started a huge grease fire and scorched the ceiling before any one noticed what I was doing and what was going wrong After that, my dad cooked me breakfast (he said he did it because he didn't think the insurance would cover drug-induced fire damages ) and I still was in no pain, but it was time for more medicine, so I took it like I was supposed to. I retreated to my bedroom and noticed that it smelled a little funky from all of the blood that had came out of my mouth during my sleep, so I lit a couple of aromatherapy candles. I didn't realize that I had lit the candles on a openworked shelf that had a bottle of Wite-Out on the next shelf up. Well, I quickly discovered that Wite-Out is flammable and my boyfriend (as he was in the room with me) got the fire put out with no damage to anything, but with a lot of Wite-Out all over my brand new Winnie the Pooh bed sheets that I had just got for my birthday from my parents. At this point, no one has caught on to the fact that I should just sit quietly in the corner and do nothing, so they let me strip my bed and I take the Wite-Out'ed sheets to the washer and put them in. When I go to put the laundry soap in, I lost count about 5 times of how much I put in, so I ended up putting about half a bottle of laundry detergent into the wash. About 10 minutes into the cycle, (I've retreated back to my bedroom at this point) my mom (who was using a walker at the time) hops into the kitchen to get a soda and sees about 2 feets of soap suds covering the kitchen floor. She freaks out, gets my sister and dad to help her clean up the mess and bans me from doing anything other than watching tv until I am no longer on the pain meds. The upshot of all of this is.. I was in no pain, experienced no bruising, and ended up having a "high* time of it It was really funny... guess ya had to be there

[Gatito Grande]

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The leader of the oldest church on the planet arrived in my city today

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Kalita, that's [i:407d43ed9d] their[/i:407d43ed9d] story: I ain't buying it. All the Christian churches can claim to be founded by Jesus Christ, and are defined by their splits w/ each other. The Roman Catholic church is no different than any other. It is defined primarily by 1) its split w/ the Eastern churches in the 11th century, and 2) its split w/ the churches of the Reformation in the 15th and 16th centuries.

GG [i:407d43ed9d] Proud to be a member of "another church" (Anglican Communion) you mentioned![/i:407d43ed9d] Out