Damn. Smonster woke up in a fighting mood this morning.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Pix and Maria!

Last night I colored my hair, and had a blob of dye fall on the carpet. Then, when I was putting back my brush, I knocked my foundation off the shelf onto the floor, where the bottle broke and splattered foundation all over the place. Luckily I was in the bathroom, with the tiled floor, for that one. Somedays I am such a klutz...

Happy birthday, Maria! Wishing you good things this year.

Happy birthday, Pix! You too could use several buckets worth of good things this year. I'm wishing health especially for yourselves and those people dear to you.

Wishing also that ita got the damn drugs listed in her damn file like the goddam pain specialist wrote it up.

There's a reason that tiled floors are popular!

Any one who is trying to rape me with actual or reasonably likely violence (gun, knife, etc.), I'm going to assume is also going to kill me during or after. There is no such concept as "unfair fighting" for someone who is smaller and weaker under those circumstances.

billytea, evidently some of those SE Asian pitcher plants that are big enough for vertebrates have an alternate adaptation for food-gathering -- the squirrels and monkeys and other small mammals use them as toilets!

Happy birthday to Maria and Pix! And happy belated to -t!

Co-signed on smonster's response to ita !'s doctors.

Man, I did not sleep well last night. I had three decent nights in a row before that, though, so I can't complain too much. But I sure could use a nap.

Happy birthdays to Maria, Pix, and -t, with cake!

I don't understand how the ER staff can simply disregard written orders. Something's wrong with that system.

Happy Birthdays*, -t, Maria, and Pix!

I hope you are home and in at least less pain, ita !, despite the doctors.

• Belated and otherwise.

Happy birthday, Maria and Pix and -t!

I endorse smonster's plan for ita's doctors. Dammit, why do they think the dosage is written in her file if it wasn't meant to be given? ita, I'm so sorry you have to go through this so often. How dare they tell you your "perception of pain" is wrong. That's the stupidest, most useless thing I've ever heard.

Well, the attending has said it doesn't matter, he's not giving me the recommended and coincidentally sometimes effective dosage. So I can either take the smaller doses or leave. I wish there were something in it for me to leave, but the 5% chance that it will work....

I love how the nurse started out with all these statements of what is and isn't true. Save me getting emotional and just read the damned file, will you? Enough with the "never". She's on my side too (she noticed I seemed unaffected by the slow dosages I've been given, but recommended I refuse all meds until someone talks to me first.

I'm headachey with the same month old pain, I'm both nauseous (fuck off) and hungry, and above all, really not looking forwards to starting another week feeling so sick. But I'm aiming not to leave here without a conversation with the attending and the social worker, hopefully...

Happy birthday wishes to -t, Pix, and Maria!

I'm already tired and it's only 8:30. K is taking a Krav belt test today. Oof.