9/22/03

I sent my boss an e-mail explaining the e-mail I copied her in on with Marlene (the bitch) and Marlene’s boss. I think it’s important to keep my boss informed so I decided to send her an e-mail instead of waiting until she got back and came over to check up on it.

I’ve been kind of down all evening but I’m feeling better now. I just hope I handled everything okay at work.

Right now I’m watching Resident life on the discovery channel. This poor guy got shot in a hold up, he runs a liquor store. He’s allergic to numbing medication and stuff and they’re having to put a chest tube into him while he’s awake. He said he’d had dental work done in Vietnam with no pain medication. Can you imagine? I most certainly can’t. The first time I had fillings done I had to stop them b/c I needed more numbing medicine, they didn’t use enough for me and that didn’t feel too nice. Then a few weeks ago when I had to have that cat bite cleaned out, even with numbing medicine it hurt deep down inside there when he was messing with it. I can’t even imagine something more serious than that with no, or very little numbing medicine.

Supposedly some people can use some kind of self-hypnosis to go through entire surgeries without pain medicine. I wish I could learn how to not feel pain like that. 🙂

Hubby took some pumpkin pie over to the neighbors this afternoon before class. They seemed happy, hubby said the guy that lives there was out the door before he even got all the way over there, lol. I think they were looking forward to it, they knew it was coming because hubby asked them if they liked pumpkin pie when he picked the pumpkins, hehe. We don’t get to try it until tomorrow though. *pout* I forgot hubby had class tonight. He doesn’t get home until 10 and I’m not supposed to eat anything within 4 hours of going to bed. That rule has really helped keep me from being woken up in the middle of the night with acid reflux symptoms. There is nothing more annoying than being woken up by stomach acid in your throat.

I’ve been writing in my private paper journal quite a bit tonight, I think it helps. OD is nice and all but the paper journal is more portable. 🙂 I’ve never actually kept a paper journal for more than a few weeks. My goal is to at least fill this whole journal. I have so many started and unfinished journals laying around. I don’t like to pick up an old journal and start back up a year later or something y’know. 🙂 Maybe I’m weird. 🙂

My cat bite has healed a lot over the past few days. The scab is off completely and the hematoma in there is smaller. It’s weird though because the skin in between the two sets of teeth marks is completely numb. I can scratch it with my nails and squeeze it and I feel nothing. It’s like your lips and stuff after having fillings done. I guess it severed a nerve. I wonder how long it’ll take for the feeling there to come back, for now though, it’s kind of fun to play with. 🙂

Well, the way I have to sit here on the bed is starting to cut circulation off in my foot so I think I’m going to stop with the rambling for now and see about getting myself some water. 🙂