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ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

It Be Wednesday

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Good day all.

Oh man Ghost, that's a dental appointment horror story! That gives me the heebeejeebees just thinking about it. Have fun with the painkillers!

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

Wow Ghost, that sounds horrible. I hope that pain goes away quick.

Another cold day here too, but after today, it's looking up . . . the long range shows 30 tomorrow, then 40+ for highs for the next several days.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

Morning all. It's cold and windy but the sun is out. Let me know when it is naptime. It has been some late days for me here this week. I would really like to leave close to on time this evening. We'll see.

Mad Mema · Bad Biker Granny

Good day, all. It is brutally cold here again today. Presently 7*, but with the wind chill they say it feels like -6*. I disagree.... it feels much colder than that. Got about 3 inches of snow last night. That isn't so bad, but I hate having to go shovel first thing. I should have bothered to be a little more awake before hitting that... now my back is stiff and sore. Gonna be a great day... I can feel it already.

Geez, Ghost! That sucks. Sorry to hear that was so horrible. Hope the meds really do take the edge off... or at least make you not care that you are in pain.

Hope everyone has a great day. I'm going to try to get motivated to get some work done. Good luck to me with that.

disco strangler · Smiles everyone, smiles!

Yowch, Ghost! I would rather give birth to 8# twins than have tooth pain! Sorry you had to go through all that. Hope the pain meds make you comfortably numb

I've been lurking around the past few days, but trying to play catch up for the days we missed at work last week and yup, it's snowing again -- so far about five inches -- but it should taper off by quittin' time. By this weekend we might be in the mid-50's! YAY! And hopefully this will be winter's big sign off!

The kids might have to give up Spring Break to make up for all the missed school days. Other options are to make it up on Saturdays & Teacher Professional Days; or going through the first week or two of June -- THAT would stink for seniors!

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

In my senior year of high school, they tacked a bunch of snow days on at the end. We ended up having our graduation ceremony before we graduated, even before we took our finals. That sucked.

WebGuy · Doesn't Do Windows

MzHartz wrote:

We ended up having our graduation ceremony before we graduated, even before we took our finals. That sucked.

I assume then that you didn't get your diploma at the ceremony?

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Nope, we got a diploma cover.

ghostdancer · Ghost In The Machine

disco strangler wrote:

The kids might have to give up Spring Break to make up for all the missed school days. Other options are to make it up on Saturdays & Teacher Professional Days; or going through the first week or two of June -- THAT would stink for seniors!

If we go over our allotted snow days, the seniors still get out/graduate on time. MI builds extra hours into the regular school year just for that reason. The way the school calendar is set up right now, my daughter will be out of school a whole week before graduation; she graduates on June 2nd, her last day of school will be May 26th. Anyone that's not a senior won't be out of school until June 9th, and it's even later if they use up all the snow days.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

That makes a lot more sense.

disco strangler · Smiles everyone, smiles!

The school districts have used up all their snow days plus what looks like will be 4 days IF they get to go back on Monday. This year we had 5 snow days built in. Honestly, I really don't know how it will affect graduating seniors if the school year is extended. I imagine the simplest thing to do would be to have the ceremony on schedule and have them attend the week after, like Mz did.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Good day all.

Wow Ghost. I've been thinking a lot about the dentist lately because I plan to finally get back into going on a regular basis this year. Your story doesn't exactly inspire me!

I hope it's not to painful for you the next few days.

I'm annoyed today because I seem to be getting sick again. I ruined the end of my extended Christmas vacation by getting some weird cold-like illness and now six weeks later it feels like the same thing is coming back.

Not sure if it's allergies (though this time of year that seems unlikely) or sinuses, or just a cold.

It started with a day of soreness in the back part of the roof of my mouth. I actually thought maybe I just poked it with a tortilla chip at the bar or something. Then I started feeling drainage, and now my throat while not sore feels very odd when I cough and feels kind of raw (maybe from the drainage?). At any rate I feel fine otherwise, it's all in my head. Literally.

I remember going ten years with nothing more than a very mild annual cold. Boy, those days are long gone.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

JR, that sounds like a good ol' case of post nasal drip. It's probably just dust. If you haven't dusted recently, it could be building up. Or if you dusted just a few days ago, you could've stirred it up enough to get a nice whiff of it.

Doctor Mz prescribes Claritin D (the decongestant is important in this case) and throat spray.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Thanks Doc. I'll try that! With my job I'm around a ton of dust, particularly in the winter during heating season. So there's a good chance that's it.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

An individual may be diagnosed as suffering from post-nasal drip if they suffer from the following symptoms:

Constant swallowing
Rhinorrhea, running nose due to mucus flow
Frequent spitting
Tickling in the throat
Constant clearing of throat
Rigid burning sensation at back of the throat
Broken or cracking voice
Mucus feeling in the back of the throat
Difficulty in breathing
Congestion in the nasal and sinus passages
Chronic sore throat
Masses formed in the crypts of the tonsils that are generally yellow or white (commonly called tonsil stones, or tonsilloliths)
Halitosis (bad breath)
Snorting to clear mucus from the nasal passage that cannot otherwise be cleared by blowing one's nose
Coughing
Cobblestone appearance of the oropharyngeal mucosa

I highlighted the ones that applied to me. (sorry, that third from last one is probably TMI).

Sounds like this could be my issue, particularly the chronic sore throat. It's not that my throat is sore constantly, but it seems like at least a few days every week or two it'll be sore, particularly after waking up.

We'll try some Claritan-D or something similar.

MZ, go ahead and send me the bill for the office, eh, FORUM visit.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Dust is really getting to me this winter too. When you get the throat spray, don't get the zinc kind, that's for colds. Get the kind that numbs you so much if you mis-spray, you'll be drooling for the rest of the night.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

Those tonsil stone things, I get those. Ew.

MzHartz · Permanent Vacation

While I'm prescribing things, you should pick up some of that throat spray for Ghost too. You can also use it for tooth aches.

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

MzHartz wrote:

Dust is really getting to me this winter too. When you get the throat spray, don't get the zinc kind, that's for colds. Get the kind that numbs you so much if you mis-spray, you'll be drooling for the rest of the night.

lol. The co-workers will love that!

Jeremy Riggs · 2011 Super Bowl Champions!

Well MZ, I really do think you were onto something yesterday. The more and more I think about it, it all makes sense. Going back the last three or four years the signs were there, I just never put em' together.

I didn't get any medication because with the high blood pressure I have to be careful what I take and I didn't feel well enough yesterday to want to deal with it. This morning when I got home from work I filled the bathtub and both kitchen sinks with water. I also filled a bucket of water and put it next to the heater to try and get some moisture in the air. I slept better and woke up less agitated than yesterday.

Now I just got back from K-Mart where I bought two steam humidifiers for the apartment. At some point I'd like to buy one of those big floor standing units. But I think increasing the humidity in here will be a huge help.

confuzzed · Permanent State of Confusion

I keep a humidifier in my bedroom for whenever the heat is on. It is too dry without it.

If you don't have a humidifier available, putting a pot of water right on the heating vent can help. It'll warm up the water and moisten the heat a little.

That remids me, when was the last time I changed the filter in the heater? Guess I'll have to look into that. I may have done that right before I turned the heat on in November.