it keeps raining...now, add these to my list of woes (along with dying hard drive).
Something is wrong with some tooth on my right side. Before I left G.S., I spent $175 at the dentist just trying to figure out what and which tooth. He is a real high-tech guy and we did everything imaginable to isolate the problem. 3 Xrays, ultra-mini tv cameras, ice on each tooth individually, blow air on them , etc...Most of these teeth already have big gold crowns on them, some have already had root canals. He decided it might be sinus inflamation so gave me a Rx for round of Keflex and some weak pain pills. Not helping. I am sick of the vague migrating toothache.
THEN
as I am loading the car to leave, somehow, graceful as i am, i managed to lose my footing, wearing open beach shoes, going up the concrete steps and fall forward into the steps (arms loaded with stuff of course) and in doing so, I jammed my left foot big toe into the concrete step riser. Didn't break the toe. Just damaged the toenail. If Ihad wimpy, thin toenails, they'd just bend, but NO, I have horse hoof, thick, shiny toenails. They usually serve me well. But these guys don't bend or budge a bit, if they get a head on collision, they ram directly back into the drivers seat.
well...That was 2 days ago and my toenail is still throbbing. As I type this it is throbbing. Did I mention throbbing? And it is black. And the skin around it is red. And I cannot wear a sock, much less a closed toe shoe or boot. Isn't that just grand? It is mid-winter in Memphis Tennessee and i am barefoot. Mink coat and barefoot. That is how I will be, well, maybe flip flops. Maybe I can throw together some FUR flip-flops. Hot glue to the rescue. Maybe start a new fashion trend.
BUT
the last time I lost a big toenail, it took almost a whole year to re-grow the entire thing. And in the awful, losing-it stage, I had to protect it while it was half off and hanging by a super sensitive thread. And after it finally came on off, I had to buy Lee Press-On Nails and use teacher's putty to wear a fake big toenail because it looked sooooooo bad that the one day I didn't do that, I went to the post office in flip-flops and of course people stared, but what was worse, a mother grabbed her child and drew her close, so he wouldn't get any cooties from me. It looked that bad.
Then I went to the home of some interior decorator friends of the male type who had yappy little doggies ( I wanted to squish them), the dogs kept trying to lick my feet and all. Before leaving I looked down and MY FAKE TOENAIL WAS GONE ! I had to tell them that their stupid little insect-like dogs might have eaten my toenail, or that if they spotted it on the floor later....don't freak out....it is plastic...and I was forced to go into the whole discussion of wearing a fake toenail with these guys who were probably about to puke and really didn't need to know all that about me in the first place.
Soooooooo...here i go again...........I will lose the toenail, no doubt about it.
Now in a cold region this might not be such a big deal, but at the beach it is like having a mole with a hair growing from it on your nose. I wear nothing but sandals there or I get a weird tan.
Which brings me to this, I think the anti-skin cancer cream I put on my little flakey forehead spot may have actually worked. It is still red a bit but not flakey. And the treatment phase was not nearly as bad as I expected. (Didn't need the bangs, which didn't work out so great anyway--hair just kept on curling up and not behaving as bangs.)
I told my mom today that this Christmas stuff was just too hard on me and next year I might just skip altogether. I think she knew that I meant it.