Feeling pretty darn shitty today. Either I didn’t hear this part of it, or the dentist didn’t tell me until today in his follow up email to me, that it gets worse before it gets better. The swelling and pain is up, and may get worse tomorrow.
I am surprised, relieved and tired. I’ve wanted to take a nap all day, but like that cranky little kid who wants to stay up to see what happens next, I have stubbornly stayed up all day.
I did the surgery- am so sleepy and my pain mounts as I write this as the Novocain and the one and a half dose of Ativa wear off. Eric Niver, my sweet and humorous dentist, told me the Ativan would work, I did not believe him, but if you take 1 and a ½ [...]
I had this image of myself this afternoon standing on a very steep and deep precipice with my arms outstretched, my head held back, my chest arched forward as I leaned into the fear of the fall and defied it. It was a wonderful fantasy and as soon as I had it I picked up [...]
My Beautiful Albatross is this. This writing, posting, outing, (in more ways than one), of my life.
My body feels like crap, but my spirits are lifted. A few bits of good news and a beautiful warm day can chase the salivating demons away.
“Don’t worry about a thing, ‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right. Singin’: “Don’t worry about a thing, ‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right!”
