Tired

[jducoeur]

Tired, tired, tired. So very tired.

Partly, this is because of The Cough. This is the low-budget but long-running sequel to The Cold, which ended its stellar run a week or so ago. The Cough isn't all that impressive, but just plain physically tiring over the course of time.

Partly, this is because of kittens who haven't yet learned enough English to understand, "Yes, you're incredibly cute, and you have a purr that compares favorably with the volume of a 747. But you really need to lie down and let me sleep now, instead of walking back and forth across my chest."

Mostly, however, it is due to procrastination.

I have a number of bad habits, but arguably the worst is procrastination. I'm quite even-handed about it: I put off my own personal priorities as badly as or worse than other peoples'. Which is the problem in this case.

Quite Some Time Ago, my dentist told me that she wanted all my wisdom teeth out, because they were all in danger of getting impacted. Having been through that particular agony once before, I quite agreed, took the reference for the surgeon, and proceeded to do absolutely nothing about it. Until last night, where I woke up at about 3am thinking, "Uh, oh -- that feels rather familiar".

Mind, I'm not in agonizing pain. Yet. At this point, it's still basically at the water-torture stage of just twinging gently every couple of minutes. During the day, when I'm doing something productive, I'm not even particularly noticing it. But at night, when there is nothing but my own breathing, two cats very quietly stalking the place, and that teeny throb, it's bloody irritating.

Needless to say, the consult with the oral surgeon has been scheduled, so now it's just a race against time. If I'm lucky, it'll stay an annoying but mild twinge until it comes out. But I know from experience that it can go from "Hmm -- ought to get that looked at" to "OMG -- someone please amputate my head!" in the space of an hour.

So if I seem rather spacey in the near future, please forgive: even by my pathetic standards, I'm underslept. And if I appear to be *really* cranky, it probably means that I've lost that particular race, and I'm just trying to bear it until it comes out...

Comments

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

Oh, I feel your pain. Or rather I felt your pain. 4 badly impacted wisdom teeth meant general anesthesia for 2 hours while they got them out, 2 weeks of eating ice cream and mashed potates and 4 months of being unable to open my mouth enough to sing properly. Yeah. That was fun. I hope things stay calm for you.

[laurion]

Huh. I've been seeing the orthodontist since I was 5, due to oral concerns foreshadowed by parental biologies. They actually had to pull baby teeth to make room. I had all 4 wisdom teeth removed at 17, in pieces, as they cut them out before they could cause problems.

[lecil.livejournal.com]

Hugs, J. I seem to have the same cold as you, and I'm also in the coughing stage. Which is an improvement over the "I wanna die" stage, I figure.

Good luck making it to the oral surgeon in time. At least the drugs will be good... :)

[jimpage363.livejournal.com]

May I offer a piece of unsolicited advice, based on my own evil experience? Take the general. Do not, repeat NOT, decide to have a valium drip and novocaine injections. This is nothing you want to be awake for.
Hope it works out well for you, my friend.

[jducoeur]

I actually had one out previously with a local, so I've had the experience. It didn't actually freak me too badly -- I'm surprisingly good with dental work. (Except for X-Rays, which are a real problem for me.) I've been through a variety of dental surgery with a local. (Including the periodontal, which was weirdly interesting, as they sewed my gums back together.)

But I'll probably let them do the general: it's apparently SOP, and the process takes long enough and is disconcerting enough that I'm not exactly *eager* to be awake for it...

[ladymacgregor.livejournal.com]

And about that cough. I got The Cold That Never Ends earlier this year - I think it's a new strain. The Cold part ends within a few days, but the cough stayed on for WEEKS. In desperation, I went back to an Old Folk Remedy: salt-water gargles. Take one cup of water as hot as you can get out of the tap, put in one teaspoon of salt, stir, and then gargle with it until it is all gone. Morning and night. Bleargh. It tasted awful, but it killed off the cough in about four days.