Category Archives: General

Mar6

I Have So Much to Say

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I Have So Much to Say

and so little energy to say it. Honest to goodness, I’m so beat I can’t even see straight. So I’ll finish painting the trim this morning, then take a nap, and then touch up all the mistakes I made because I couldn’t see straight. I haven’t been able to fall asleep before 2AM in four nights. (Darling hubby, I was awake when you came in, but didn’t want to move a muscle in case I was just, at that moment, actually about to drop off. In retrospect. . .)

Anyway, you might have noticed a different URL popping up in your address box when you come here. We’ll be handing over alison.com soon, so we’re now alisonblogs.com. Hubby has already gotten everything pointing here correctly, let me know if something’s not working right for you. alisonsews.com has been woefully neglected, but will be picking up soon, I promise.

I went to a meeting of the NJ Polymer Clay Guild on Sunday, and had a great time. There are so many cool things to learn, and so many ideas for incorporating this with my sewing, beading, and hubby’s glasswork are running through my head. Audrey and Carolyn might come for the next meeting, because there were another pair of girls there, so it wouldn’t just be them and the grownups. I’ll put up some pictures of what we’ve been playing with after they’re all baked.

Feb16

It’s Almost Over. . .

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It’s Almost Over. . .

I went to the endodontist yesterday.

He loaded me up with novocaine, took out the heavy-duty dental tools, and excavated my tooth right up into the bone. By about 8 last night, the glands in my neck had shrunk down to normal size, and the pain in my temple and eye were gone. My ear still feels a little uncomfortable today, but the tooth pain is almost nonexistent.

The worst of it is the wicked awful headache.

I spent an hour and a half in the chair, and there were a couple of points where the novocaine wasn’t quite enough, so I was tensed up for most of it. Add in that I was getting serious grinding and drilling, and you have the makings of just the kind of pain I have. But it’s nothing like before, and I know it’ll get better now, because the abcess is out. I don’t want to have to use the Percocet this weekend, but I will if I have to.

Tuesday everything gets cleaned up and sealed, and Wednesday I go to a new GP to see if the ear has managed to escape an infection of its own.

I can hardly wait to start feeling normal again, and get something done during the day other than napping and popping pain pills.

Feb14

Two Years Ago This Week

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Two Years Ago This Week

I was recovering from surgery on my gums to treat an abcess from a root canal. I remember because I had stitches hanging out of my mouth while we were at our annual Presidents’ Day Weekend Retreat.

It looks like deja vu all over again. The pain is back with a vengeance, up into my temple, around my right eye, from my right ear down along my jawline into my throat. I have to schedule something with the endodontist (may I crash at your place until the drugs wear off, Gayle? 😉 )

The weather is so horrible today that his office might not be open, so my appointment might not be until next week. Maybe I’ll ask the dentist so phone in some more Percocet to the pharmacy.

*sigh*