Damn — headache

[Oeditpus Rex]

The kind that'll keep me awake either way, because I have to medicate it with Excedrin. I already took my last Vicodin.

Anybody around who can help take my mind off it?

Would it help if I :cry: ?

[Wonk]

1. Apply directly to the forehead. Apply directly to the forehead.

Apply directly to the forehead.



:shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Oh, sure

Lookit what happened the last time I tried that:





:cry:

[NMMNG]

2. Well,

I can't help but give you a finger wagging for wasting your Vicodins on "recreational" use. If you hadn't done that you'd have some left now for your headache.


But now that I'm done with that... :hug: I can definitely feel for you being a migraineur. I wish I could send a Vicodin through the Internet "tubes" for you.


Would thinking of sexy women dancing nude help?

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. I rarely recreate with 'em

(Funny... in my head, that came out like Elmer Fudd.) :crazy:

I've been having a run of late-night back pain for the last... christ, quite awhile. It's not a great deal of pain, but it keeps me awake. Vicodin relaxes the offending muscles as well as my brain and, often as not, lets me pop my back for further relief.

And, just 'tween you 'n' me, it's also rare that I take an entire Vicodin. My normal dose is half a 5-milligram tab. Yeah, I'm a lightweight. :blush:

This stupid headache just snuck up on me. I don't get many like this anymore. x(



Now... which women? :evilgrin:

[NMMNG]

17. I was just lightly teasing you anyway

It's not like I'm Polly Pure or anything. :evilgrin:


And whatever woman helps.....:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. I know

:hug:

I got a little defensive because... well, dammit, I don't abuse meds. I take a lotta pride in getting by on low doses.



So, uh... even though you're not, y'know... interested, would you... uh...



Aw, hell. :blush:

[In_The_Wind]

4. I'm sorry, O R.

If you were still awake I'm sure I could find some way to help take your mind off of the pain.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. I'm awake

And likely to be for awhile, since I just took another Excedrin. x(



:hug: :hi:

[In_The_Wind]

7. geeze, I'm sorry to hear that.

We've been on a different time schedule for months. :hi:

How is Lucy doing?

and
What about that awesome truck of yours ~ any fixin's going on there?

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Lucy's good

Although I question her sanity, since it's been raining and she still wants to go outside. :shrug:

Haven't tinked much with the truck lately. Couple weeks ago I fixed an exhaust leak — had a blown header gasket, and I replaced both of 'em with layered-aluminum gaskets. That was such a pain in the ass that I haven't wanted to mess with it much since.

It did lead me, though, to getting a busted exhaust hanger re-welded, so now the tailpipes hang evenly again. I oughta put chrome tips on 'em, huh?

[In_The_Wind]

9. chrome tips sounds totally cool

x( I miss my truck.


Lucy isn't nuts ... she just wants to see if you'll be her slave and bring her right back in, dry her off and rescue her like the first time.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Yeah, that's the screwy part

She still wants out the front door — where the carport ain't.

I thought cats hated being wet. :shrug:

[In_The_Wind]

14. I think that's an old wives tale.

Personally, I think it would be nicer to curl up in front of the fireplace with a saucer of warm milk than chase mice and such on a wet morning but it's all a matter of your point of view. For a young cat like Lucy that might be boring.

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. She hasn't brought me a mouse in a long time

Three or four months or so.

Maybe they realized what they're up against — the Blitzkat — and fell back and established a new perimeter.

Or maybe she et 'em all.

:shrug:

[In_The_Wind]

19. Or maybe she's made pets outta 'em!

My Dad laughed his ass off at our tomcat Skipper one night. You see ... Skipper used to bring home squirrels so we thought he was the great hunter. Then late one night my stepmother walked into the closet scaring the bejeebus out of a little mouse. The mouse ran straight to Skipper and curled up under his chin, between his paws, and just stared at Ruth. I guess they had a special understanding. :shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. Oh, jeebus!

I would've paid to see that. :rofl:

[In_The_Wind]

24. I was just a little kid so I missed it because it happened past my bedtime

:wow: x( like most of the fun in my house if you can believe sounds coming from the rest of the house after lights-out.

Why do kidlets have to go to bed so early anyway? I can remember being in bed for the night while it was still light outside ... *stamping foot* no fair!!!

[Oeditpus Rex]

25. Yup

First bedtime I can remember having was 8:30.



I think I was around 22.

[lizziegrace]

26. Is that am or pm?

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. Ha. Ha.

Oh, we are the witty one, aren't we?

:spank:

[lizziegrace]

31. We're punchy

we get that way. :evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. But we apparently don't lose

our snark.

:spank:

[lizziegrace]

37. Snark's the last to go

:evilgrin:

[vickitulsa]

42. Whenever my childhood pal and I were taking off on one of our

long horseback rides in the late afternoon, his dad would wave at us and say, "Be back before breakfast!" ;)

My bedtime as a kid was 9 p.m., same as my brother who was three years older. Guess that was one time I actually benefited from rules made for him that applied to me!

Don't ever remember having to go to bed while it was still light outside ... I'm a lifelong insomniac and nighthawk anyway, so that would have been hell. Often I can't get to sleep before one or two a.m., but now that I'm a "senior" I seem to be waking up regularly at THREE a.m.! Makes for some mighty short nights....!

[In_The_Wind]

40. I say there O R "What happened to everything up until 22?"

I don't remember most of my childhood but there was this one time when I woke up from a nightmare one night and freaked because I thought I was home alone. I wasn't, my parents were sitting next door having a beer. Oopsie I ran over to the other neighbor's house. :blush: Boy were they mad at me! :( I was always in trouble for something.

[lizziegrace]

10. Sorry O.R.

:(


I don't have any suggestions.

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Hey!

Whada you doin' up?

:hug: :hi:

[lizziegrace]

13. Can't sleep

:(

:hi:





:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. Brain stuff?

:hug: :loveya:

[lizziegrace]

18. Yep

that and the storms stirred up lots of allergens. I had a nightmare that I couldn't breath and woke up with a bad asthma episode. At least my dreams wake me up in time.

Gracie's still sick and I'm not sure what to do about her. I have to put drops in her ear twice a day but she hides and if I can get the drops in her ear, she shakes her head and liquid flies everywhere. There's some stuff coming out of her ear and matting the fur around it, so I know the infection's still there. It's hard trying to handle her alone. Lelapin used to hold her for me. (Gracie won't let Lelapin come near her!)

Sorry to ramble. I'm tired.

:(

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. Ew

I've never experienced it, but I can imagine not being able to breathe — or, at least thinking you can't — is hellaciously scary. :hug:

I had a similar problem with Lucy some time back. Her paw got cut in a fight, or so the vet figured, and I had to give her a liquid antibiotic. The vet told me the trick about wrapping her in a towel to keep her legs contained and sticking the dropper in the side of her mouth, but it was still quite a job without an assistant.

I guess she liked the taste of the stuff, though (it looked and smelled like Pepto-Bismol) because the more I did it, the easier it got.

I think we need to be rougher with our creatures than we want to be at times like this, since we love 'em and stuff. But if you watch how the vet handles 'em, they keep pretty still and don't seem to mind the extra forcefulness.

Gracie's just pretty. :loveya:

[lizziegrace]

23. Gracie thanks you

and you're right. I need to be more agressive with her when it comes to these drops. She could lose her hearing or worse. Besides, she's 8 pounds and I'm - bigger. I can take her. ;)

She's funny. She even sees the bottle in my hand and she's under the couch. Little goof.

The only way I can describe asthma to someone who doesn't have it? It's like someone's holding you under water and you can't breathe. I've been lucky. At night, the dreams always wake me up.

How's you head, friend? :pals:

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. I've tried to imagine that

Sometimes at night I'll think about what it's like to not be able to breathe — at all. Like if all of a sudden there just were. no. air. Or if I were trapped underwater.

:scared:



But, hey — I popped my neck a few minutes ago. Headache's goin' away. :bounce:

Thanks to alla you fine folks for stickin' with me. :grouphug:

[lizziegrace]

30. Yay!

I'm glad it's fading. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. That's why I love Vicodin

My headaches are almost always of the "tension" variety — or, at least, I react to them by tightening my neck, shoulders and TMJ. Two and a half milligrams o' Vikes relax the muscles just enough that I can pop whatever needs popping — or, if the muscle tension's the problem, it takes care o' that.

It also puts me in a really good mood. But that's not why I take it.

[lizziegrace]

35. the good mood

is just a lucky side-effect. ;)

I have TMJ. I had surgery when I was in college. It helped, sort of.

So glad you're feeling better. :hug:

[lizziegrace]

28. Gracie doesn't eat out of her bowl

I hear her tearing open a new bag of food. You can take the cat off the streets but can't take the street out of the cat. :shrug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. LOL!

She opens the bag herself and eats outa it?

I'd love to see that. :rofl:

[lizziegrace]

33. Widget (aka Tank) would starve

He sits and looks at the bowl and cries. Gracie takes matters into her own claws and rips the bag open with her teeth. No one's gonna deny her sustinence. :)

[Oeditpus Rex]

38. She must 've paid attention to her leader

"There mutht be thum way for a puthy cat to get thum thuthtenanth... th."

[lizziegrace]

39. LOL!

Yes, she read the manual.

:rofl:

[lizziegrace]

41. Soda straws and throw rugs

It's playtime for the cats at my house. They're having too much fun. :)