Things Comma Five--I Mean Six

[truepenny]

1. My Storytellers Unplugged post for January, "Taking Another Tilt at the Windmill," is up. It's about fantasy, science fiction, and genre theory.

2. I was woken up this morning by a call from the sleep clinic. While the irony is bright and shiny and very pointed, I am glad to know my GP went ahead and made the referral, because I was going to have to call him today to tell him to do so. RLS is evil.

3. Gynecologist appointment also today, in which we agreed to try taking the Mirena out, and see what happens. (Taking it out was about 5 MILLION TIMES less painful than putting it in, so that was good.) The Mirena lessened my menstrual flow, but it made my periods MUCH too frequent, and it also randomized my menstrual cramps so that they became like drive-by stabbings. Double-plus ungood, thank you.

This is a new-to-me gynecologist, and I like her. She asked if I wanted to keep the Mirena. (I did.)

4. RT @pnh Elise, about to be Discharged, manifests as a Figure of Allegory and asserts Control over Time. http://yfrog.com/h7eieaj

5. It is snowing. Nevertheless, I plan to go to the pool in another hour or so.

6. ursulav is right on the money.

Comments

[slimequeen.livejournal.com]

So glad the Mirena removal went well! I still find it odd that I had no issues with pain or anything unpleasant, even though my Mirena went on the grand tour of my pelvic region. The human body makes no sense sometimes.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

The human body makes no sense sometimes.

TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER TYPED.

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

I love that you kept the Mirena*. My family has a history of keep the inappropriate things doctors put in and then take out of us - my brother kept his port-a-cath after he finished his chemotherapy. My mother kept my wisdom teeth, which I realize I made all on my own.

*typing that just now I realized that I've been mispronouncing it in my head all this time. I tried to write "minera" and that wasn't right, so I checked.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I kept my wisdom teeth. Also the stitches from when I split my chin open when I was seven. Both sets of items are lost now, I think. At least, I know I don't know where they are.

We'll see if I do better with the Mirena.

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

I didn't get to keep my stitches from when I.. uh... split my chin open when I was five. But they let me keep every single cast I had as a kid - I think my mom and I had a fit about fifteen years back and threw those out.

My mother put all of the teeth in the flower beds about ten years ago. We're not sure what she was trying to grow. (Probably an army of nerds)