How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle

[flemmings]

(It's not like I ever read the Old Testament in childhood, and a good thing too because the lesson I take away from 2 Samuel 1:14 is 'don't do what a king asks you to do.' But how come I know all these random passages from it?)

I used to live on codeine and tylenol, after codeine and aspirin turned against me. So today the emergency dentist (Scots, and nearly incomprehensible; my childhood familiarity with Scots accents, then ubiquitous, wore off several decades ago) gave me a prescription for Tylenol 2 for my unhappy tooth nerve, and the pharmacist said 'last time you had tylenol 3, just so you know.' (When was last time, she wonders- 2013? 2014? for my ganglion surgery and totally not needed)  No problem, I can take two if it doesn't work. And then the pharmacist gave me a kit to counteract opioid overdose and I said Err what opioid am I taking? and she looked at me oddly, picked up my prescription, and said 'this'.  I nearly laughed. Oh yeah codeine's an opioid, oh sure people OD on it, tee hee hee. 

Get home, eat some soft noodles, take a Tylenol 2. Fifteen minutes later, Wham. Like back in the day when I'd miscalculate and take too much, leading to back pain and  malaise. Yes well, it's been a few years since I've had codeine, and guess what, habituation does wear off. But I didn't even get to have a codeine high. So, much as I like drugs, I think I'll stick to my regular anti-inflams until I can see my dentist about what will probably turn into a root canal.

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[kore]

LOL I read through the Bible precisely once, for some college courses, but it was the KJV and a lot of the music in the language stuck, with the odd effect that sometimes people think I am religious! because otherwise why would you remember all those Bible quotes anyway? I mean, I grew up being able to quote Mary Baker Eddy, but somehow she is way less musical and applicable than something like I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Also now that I think on it, I found Jane Eyre when I was about eight or nine, and if you read and reread certain Victorian novelists, you wind up absorbing a lot of the Bible anyway.

TEETH. Teeth become such a problem as we get older! It's like something out of a Stephen King novel. When I had my recent extraction they were cheerfully pointing out the structure of the THREE roots of the molar to me on the x-ray and I was just like, do you want to give me nightmares? Then they went on to tell me how thin and frail the bone in between the sinus and the roots is! or something like that, I don't even know.

[flemmings]

Reading the entire Bible is like- yeesh, even in lovely sonorous conlang King James. But yeah, probably a lot comes from reading 19th century novels, and some may be my Protestant father's love of quotations.

Teeth have always been a problem for me, a literal pain and a money sink for the last 45 years at the very least. And I hear you about the delicate bone structure between sinus and roots. My dentist doesn't believe this and keeps pushing implants at me. And I'm nope nope nope. I've got crowned root-canalled teeth up there that she says cannot possibly hurt me anymore, but when allergy time comes, sorry, they hurt.