This has been a shitty winter. Too much rain and ice and sleet and not enough snow. I love snow. Snow is the drought killer. I hate droughts. Although apparently some reservoirs in the Upper Delaware Valley are full and an aquaduct that feeds NYC is closed for repairs this spring. So flooding might occur down stream.
When I was visiting my parents for Christmas I remarked that the second of three steps on the front porch seemed a bit weak. A few days later my grandmother was going to visit and I reminded Dad that the step was loose and that having Grandma fall would be a bad thing. He went and did something to it. I can't remember if it was loose after that but I think it was. Anyway I was back visiting this past weekend and the step was loose again. Well let me explain better. It felt like the riser underneath was too far back, and the edge of the flat part of the step was hanging over the edge. I didn't pay much attention to it the few days I was there. Then when I was packing the car to come back to NE PA, I stepped on to the second step and wham. I was on my ass. Worse though my right ankle was hyper extended backwards again. Luckily it was not serious, although driving back was painful.
I can add the ankle, my back, my lungs, and my teeth to the list of crap that's wrong with me. The ankle will work itself out, and once I start biking again, that should be okay. The same with the back. The lungs. I want to say it's bronchitis, but there's no phlegm. And I don't have shortness of breath or anything. The teeth. I know what's wrong there. I just have this fear. Last tooth I had pulled was via twilight sleep, while it was great for not feeling much at all, it sucked beforehand, in that the nurse couldn't find the vein. I was under laughing gas so it was not so bad but I couldn't feel my arm because it was leaning against the railing. Also the coldness of the IV fluid was eerie. After the extraction it was okay except I wasn't allowed to drive. I have no one out here that'd be able to drive me after a procedure like that again. The tooth I had pulled before that was via novacaine. No pain there either, and no side effects. Irrational fear, I know. They're not gonna drill, it's gonna have to be an extraction, and that will solve the problem. But I can't get myself to make an appointment. There are two rational reasons for this.
1. I don't know any of the dentists out here. A weak argument, yes.
2. The last extraction fucked up my jaw, on the left side, which is where the tooth was pulled from. This tooth is on the right side and I don't know if I can handle having both sides of my jaw messed up. Maybe I have TMJ. I know that the left ear canal would close and open, or feel like I was on a plane and the ear needed to pop. After the extraction this got worse, and over the years I've grown used to it. The loss of hearing in that ear, while slight, is exacerbated by background noise, and is the main reason I didn't communicate well with THAT GAL when we had our not a date at the winery.
So yeah. I guess I should look in the yellow pages. Ask co-workers Etc Etc. Also I wonder if asking if I go on antibiotics before the extraction is an odd question to ask.
Anyway, I have video and pictures of the eclipse but I've not had time to get them up anywhere. Hopefully this weekend, after I start reading The Power and the Glory
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