Yeouch!
A little lesson in stupidity for you today. For the last three weeks or so, I've been in moderate pain with an infected big toe on my left foot and have chosen to basically ignore it as I moved through my days doing my thing with my girls. I had a variety of reasons for this, none of them all that great.
1. I was afraid of being seen as a big, whiny baby going to the doctor about a stubbed toe. Or whatever.
2. I was afraid of going to the doctor and finding out that I had some kind of crazy flesh-eating bug that was going to require amputation of the toe and/or eventual death.
3. Getting someone to watch the girls so I can go to the doctor is a royal pain in the ass.
4. Going to the doctor with my girls in tow is a giant royal pain in the ass.
5. I wasn't sure which doctor to go to - urgent care? a podiatrist? witch?
6. Every time I considered making a doctor's appointment of some kind, there was either a child needing my attention or it was after any doctor's office would have been long closed for the evening.
7. Every other fucking time I've ever scheduled a doctor's appointment for something remotely like this, the problem disappears right before I walk in the door and I feel like the whiny baby mentioned above and then rinse, wash, repeat the cycle.
Finally, it was clear that this problem was not going to go away on its own, so I bit the bullet and dragged myself into the doctor's office this afternoon, two girls in tow. Turned out it was an ingrown toenail (yuck!) and I got to have a little very minor surgery right there in the office. I can't believe I managed to keep both girls calm and well-behaved for the almost two hours the appointment took start to finish, including the time while I was up on the table having painful things done to my poor toe.
Speaking of pain, today has again proven out that Lidocaine may work great for numbing up some people, but it doesn't work on me. I have to say, even though I was sweating from the effort of staying calm and cheerful through the very painful pain so that Julie wouldn't have a little freak-out, this pain was far less than the pain I felt a year ago when they were sewing up my hoo-hoo and the Lidocaine wasn't doing its job then either.
Anyway, I'm all bandaged up, I've taken a handful of Motrin, and I'm feeling maybe even better at the moment than I did before the little procedure. Which was the end goal, after all. I am, however, extremely tired and will have to go to bed soonish.
I'm going to watch a bit of a DVD (MI-5 season 2) and hopefully finish up a pair of socks - pictures later in the week. By the way - that post about the deep freeze? It was from a few years ago, when the blog was new. I was going to go through and add tags to the archive posts, plus fix a few typos along the way. I still want to to this as time allows, but I don't like the idea of all my old posts showing up on everyone's readers and forcing everyone to look at my drivel from 2004. There has got to be a way!
1. I was afraid of being seen as a big, whiny baby going to the doctor about a stubbed toe. Or whatever.
2. I was afraid of going to the doctor and finding out that I had some kind of crazy flesh-eating bug that was going to require amputation of the toe and/or eventual death.
3. Getting someone to watch the girls so I can go to the doctor is a royal pain in the ass.
4. Going to the doctor with my girls in tow is a giant royal pain in the ass.
5. I wasn't sure which doctor to go to - urgent care? a podiatrist? witch?
6. Every time I considered making a doctor's appointment of some kind, there was either a child needing my attention or it was after any doctor's office would have been long closed for the evening.
7. Every other fucking time I've ever scheduled a doctor's appointment for something remotely like this, the problem disappears right before I walk in the door and I feel like the whiny baby mentioned above and then rinse, wash, repeat the cycle.
Finally, it was clear that this problem was not going to go away on its own, so I bit the bullet and dragged myself into the doctor's office this afternoon, two girls in tow. Turned out it was an ingrown toenail (yuck!) and I got to have a little very minor surgery right there in the office. I can't believe I managed to keep both girls calm and well-behaved for the almost two hours the appointment took start to finish, including the time while I was up on the table having painful things done to my poor toe.
Speaking of pain, today has again proven out that Lidocaine may work great for numbing up some people, but it doesn't work on me. I have to say, even though I was sweating from the effort of staying calm and cheerful through the very painful pain so that Julie wouldn't have a little freak-out, this pain was far less than the pain I felt a year ago when they were sewing up my hoo-hoo and the Lidocaine wasn't doing its job then either.
Anyway, I'm all bandaged up, I've taken a handful of Motrin, and I'm feeling maybe even better at the moment than I did before the little procedure. Which was the end goal, after all. I am, however, extremely tired and will have to go to bed soonish.
I'm going to watch a bit of a DVD (MI-5 season 2) and hopefully finish up a pair of socks - pictures later in the week. By the way - that post about the deep freeze? It was from a few years ago, when the blog was new. I was going to go through and add tags to the archive posts, plus fix a few typos along the way. I still want to to this as time allows, but I don't like the idea of all my old posts showing up on everyone's readers and forcing everyone to look at my drivel from 2004. There has got to be a way!
posted by Shelly Kang at 10:10 PM
4 Comments:
So sorry about the toe. I've never had to endure the ingrown toenail but I can imagine.
Talked to my friend who does alot of wheat/gluten-free cooking and here's what she suggests for the cookies.
"have her check www.allergygrocer.com for mixes. we rotate soy, so i'd have to doublecheck the mixes. but i love the miss robens and 123glutenfree brands.
as to recipes, she can google celiac recipes and tofu recipes to find one. im short on time these days...but this should get her some good starting points. i havent done anything from scratch (except breads) in a couple of years."
Hope this helps!!
Glad you're feeling better! If it helps, you're not alone. About the tagging, I didn't mind reading an old post and I think if it was timely, then all the better. So if you tagged something on a relevant topic or time of year, I think it could be fun.
Owie!!! I had an ingrown toenail before, and it was *not* fun!!! *hugs*
Did you get that cookie recipe I sent you? I forgot to mention that my mom uses parchment paper instead of greasing the cookie sheets. It makes clean-up a lot easier, and you just slide the whole sheet of parchment off the cookie sheet and onto the newspaper for cooling. Fast!
I hadn't realized that deep freezer post was an old one. I find that when I use the page that shows lots of posts to add labels that they don't show up in rss feeds again.
P.S. Sorry for including my friends comment about tofu recipes. It's soy and obviously won't work for you.
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