Another nonproductive day. Oh I did a lot but accomplished nothing really. I reset my cellphone minutes Sunday night and have racked up almost 500 minutes already. Ack!! I only have 750 minutes for the month so things better settle down soon. Seems like I've been getting nothing but lip service all week. Don't give me an enthusiastic "Sure we can do that!" Just do it. Thank you.
I did some more server administration today. I really like doing that even though it's frustrating as all get out sometimes. Tonight I finally had to get up and walk away. That rarely happens. I usually have the tenacity of a pitbull and hang in there until I get something figured out. Right now I am stressed to the max on all levels though so my patience isn't near what it should be.
Todd has another night shift tonight. It's so boring without him around to talk to. I love it that he can talk to me and make me laugh without feeling threatened when I go into work mode. He pretty much knows when I want/need to talk and when I don't. I did get a little snappy with him this afternoon when he was leaving for work. I was on the phone for the millionth time with Mr. Lip Service and getting very frustrated. Todd wanted a kiss goodbye and said he wouldn't see me until Saturday. That's not true. He will see me briefly tomorrow afternoon. What he meant was that he wouldn't see me see me until Saturday because I'd be in work mode when he got up and then he'd be gone to work again before I was finished. Anyway, it struck me wrong at the wrong moment and I blurted out something about him overdramatizing his situation when there were much worse things going on... like my phone call with Mr. Lip Service. I still need to work on keeping family and the job separate. After the frustration of this week is over I think I am going to take the weekend and just be with the family. I say that all the time but this time I mean it : )
Today has pretty much been a waste of calendar space. It would be nice if we could just rewind and start over, wouldn't it? C. has had a really bad cough for two days now and has been home from school. We went to the clinic on Friday to get his stitches removed and brought home a bug I think. It's impossible to get any real work done with a sick 7 year old underfoot. I spent the majority of today on the phone with various people. That always gives me a headache. Sometimes it's hard to be nice and by 5pm, it's damn hard. Especially when all you want are some honest answers. If the answer isn't what I want to hear, so be it. Just give me something to go on. I hate getting the runaround.
I have had hypoglycemia for years and can usually maintain my blood sugar quite well through the proper diet. Tonight I was headed through the house and suddenly wasn't sure I was going to make it another step. I haven't had a spell that bad for a long, long time. It's very scary. One minute I'm looking towards the dining room and the next all I can see is white... like someone dropped a snow white curtain in front of my face. Can't hear anything except a dull roaring sound. I got so incredibly hot that I pulled my sweater off from over my turtleneck and flung it in the direction of the table. The worst of it was over fairly quick but I still can't focus my eyes real well. Tomorrow I will wake up feeling like a semi truck ran over me. At least that's what it used to feel like. It's bothersome because I can't really think of anything I've done in the last 24 hours to cause it. It used to follow an ice cream eating binge or something else involving lots of sugar. Maybe it's just stress from the day's events.
In other health news, I've received a ton of email and instant messages regarding my post from Sunday. All of them encouraged me to get my wisdom teeth taken care of once and for all. My favorite was from my friend Pete who sent an email entitled "Suck it up woman!" He seems to think that once a woman has given birth she gains superpowers or something. Childbirth was a walk in the park for me. I don't recall that it hurt at all. Oh sure, it was uncomfortable but it didn't hurt. Surgery to repair a severely broken nose - now that hurts! That's the closest comparison I can make. I've never had serious dental work done but the nose is in the same general locale as the chompers so I'm guessing it will feel about the same. Ow! No thanks. I'm gonna try to hold on to these teeth that make me wise for as long as I can.
Elise cracks me up! For some reason her referring to Ashcroft as "Slappy" makes me chuckle out loud every time I think of it. I don't know her personally but I swear, I can almost hear her saying it. On a serious note, I do hope smarter heads will prevail and shut that Ashcroft disaster down in short order.
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My wisdom tooth has been hurting off and on for about a week again. I've had problems with one or the other of the bottom ones for years. At one point it got bad enough I actually went to the dentist. He referred me onto an oral surgeon who set me up for a date with surgery. He gave me this form to read, fill out and sign. There was something on that paper about possibly fracturing my jaw. That did it for me. I cancelled the surgery date and have been dealing with the pain since. Tonight one of them really started hurting again so I grabbed a flashlight and headed for the mirror. There was a little white spot on the inside of my gumline that I thought was a canker sore. I poked at it with my fingernail and just about fainted. It was tooth!! My tooth that was impacted under bone has turned sideways and is now trying to burst through another direction. Good God! No wonder it hurts! I'll have to live with it though because I don't have dental insurance anymore and I still have no desire to have my jaw fractured. I'm not taking any of my vacation time to recover from a surgery either. (unless it gets so bad I can't stand it)
Whenever I hear of or get a new ailment, I immediately do a Google search to see what I can learn about it. Don't ever do a search for impacted wisdom teeth or wisdom tooth removal. Horror story upon horror story. Yikes!
