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[kittydesade]

And nobody told me that the aunt had a dentist appointment for her root canal Monday, so I ended up getting worried and then getting sort of freaked when she didn't show because she's usually hella punctual, and then this morning the same fucking thing happened only instead of not telling me it turned out no one knew what the fuck was going on and the uber-dentist (something-dontist, I forget what specialist it is) called her all "hey where are you" and she was all "oh fuck scramble" and I didn't get in to work until five after the hour while simultaneously wondering if I was still carpooling or should take the bus or if something had happened to everyone... yeah.

(And yeah, root canal, although she's less stressed over that than I might have been before I had three root canals in a year. This is what happens when you don't have dental insurance for five-six years. If you live in a civilized country with generally available basic health care for its citizens, GO TO YOUR REGULAR DENTIST APPOINTMENTS.)

Also my hand still hurts. And it's slightly red where it's swollen, not red and veiny, just reddish tint and swollen? So I'm assuming that's a natural feature of muscle swelling. The redness seems to go away when I sleep. Also it's barely warmer than the rest of my hand, basically it's I-could-be-being-paranoid-or-it-could-be-half-a-degree-different? warmer. But I'm getting really, really sick of my hand hurting, since it's the join of thumb and forefinger on my dominant hand and I do everything and argh.

Also the shit I'm hearing out of Agents of Shield makes me want to scream a whole rant about WE ARE NOT THINGS and WOMEN ARE NOT PROPS FOR MEN'S CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT and YOU REALIZE THIS DEVALUES MEN'S RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER MEN RIGHT and a whole bunch of other shit, including WHY IS NO ONE SWEARING VENGEANCE FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO MIKE PETERSON. But this is just what I'm hearing out of Agents of Shield, so maybe it's not that bad. Maybe? I'm not holding my breath but that happened this morning.

I really need to start just keeping a list of things I have done and of things that make me happy today because otherwise I am going to have a too-angry non-productive capoeira.

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[synecdochic]

Root canal is probably an endodontist!

(PS: ice your hand -- 20 minutes every hour -- and brace it while you're sleeping; that will probably help a hell of a lot. Pain at the base of the thumb is usually a repetitive stress injury and you can injure your hands pretty badly while asleep by the way you hold them. I wear these to sleep in and they're pretty comfortable.)

[kittydesade]

That doctor there!

Oh, this is definitely the cat bite from yesterday, though good to know that ice is the right way to go! Definitely the cat bite. Impact injury, at a guess, going by what happened the last time I got cat bit exactly this bad.

(And yes, I'm keeping an eye on it for infection, but after 24 hours it doesn't seem to be getting worse, just the red and swelling slowly fading. The swelling before the red, whatever that means.)

[synecdochic]

Yeah, I commented before I'd read back, heh! oops :/

But ice is almost always a good thing -- for injury and overstrain both.

[kittydesade]

It seems to have been that day all around yesterday. :/ 's okay. And thanks, luckily I have icepacks at work and at home both.