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Today and tomorrow I have as vacation days. Not for any particular purpose, but just because I can either have pointless vacation days or I can hit the cap and stop accumulating vacation. It seemed useful to take a couple days off before that happened.
I also needed an appointment with the dentist to get a tooth worked up for a crown before it would turn into an emergency appointment. So, seeing my opportunity to avoid arriving at the dentist trailing to-do lists and work stresses, I scheduled it for this morning. This proved to be a wiser move than I knew, though not for reasons that make me happy.
The workup went as planned. However, it's in the back of my mouth, had to be drilled, ground down, etc., and then they found a decayed spot on the adjacent tooth that had to be drilled and filled. Easier to do it then before the crown went in, by far, so I okayed it. Net result: the anesthesia was starting to wear off as they finished the drilling. I was literally ready to demand they renew the anesthesia and wait in spite of the inconvenience when he said there was ten more seconds worth of work, only. And he was true to that word. I wasn't yet pain-sensitive - the scrapes and presses on my gum were not felt at all, including when the ring they put around the tooth when doing the filling was placed - but I was cold and pressure sensitive and neither is fun with a drill going in there. Bleh.
Anyway, now have new filling, temporary crown crammed into gum, and very little brain. Came home, ate lunch, fiddled about on computer, looked up to discover a couple hours gone. Had a conversation with an old friend via IM that I can only say makes me very grateful it was with an old friend, because I believe I managed (in barely any text at all) to be both whiny and amazingly vague and un-directional. I don't like sounding like an idiot, but it's much easier to take if it happens only in front of people who know that you are not, in fact, a complete idiot, and that if you are sounding like one it is probably a situational thing. Hopefully.
Proceeded to haul myself away from the computer and settle in to pet the cats. Cuddled up with Babe on the floor, my positioning awkward so as not to disturb her highness. And...fell asleep. In that position. My left shoulder hurt so much when I woke up after the impromptu hour-plus nap. Something about having it folded backward and my weight resting on that side. It's fine now, so apparently the only thing sprained is my dignity, which should be used to it.
I woke up only slightly before I got a survey call. It was a company wanting to get information on how satisfied I am with my health insurance's claims process (on behalf of said insurance company). Unfortunately, they actually wanted me to rate my satisfaction with (and other things, maybe, but the call ended real quick 'cause I was useless) a particular claim. Guess what? I go in every week or two to get allergy shots. The shot clinic compiles a set of sessions, ships it off as one bill to the insurance, gets their money, and I get paperwork of what was paid. Frankly, I don't track it closely - I keep the papers and I check if there's a problem - and I don't really have an opinion on any one transaction. It's a background noise to me. And it's hard to have an opinion on a particular transaction that went just as smoothly as all the other transactions. It's just the system doing what it should. My overall opinion of my health insurance is fairly positive, really. There isn't much wrong with the claims process, if anything, because I don't have to get involved or think about it. But that makes it hard to give an opinion on a particular event and they weren't interested in general impressions. And I wasn't completely awake. (I'm not sure I am now.) Oh well. The world will not end just because I wasn't helpful for their survey, I imagine.
I also needed an appointment with the dentist to get a tooth worked up for a crown before it would turn into an emergency appointment. So, seeing my opportunity to avoid arriving at the dentist trailing to-do lists and work stresses, I scheduled it for this morning. This proved to be a wiser move than I knew, though not for reasons that make me happy.
The workup went as planned. However, it's in the back of my mouth, had to be drilled, ground down, etc., and then they found a decayed spot on the adjacent tooth that had to be drilled and filled. Easier to do it then before the crown went in, by far, so I okayed it. Net result: the anesthesia was starting to wear off as they finished the drilling. I was literally ready to demand they renew the anesthesia and wait in spite of the inconvenience when he said there was ten more seconds worth of work, only. And he was true to that word. I wasn't yet pain-sensitive - the scrapes and presses on my gum were not felt at all, including when the ring they put around the tooth when doing the filling was placed - but I was cold and pressure sensitive and neither is fun with a drill going in there. Bleh.
Anyway, now have new filling, temporary crown crammed into gum, and very little brain. Came home, ate lunch, fiddled about on computer, looked up to discover a couple hours gone. Had a conversation with an old friend via IM that I can only say makes me very grateful it was with an old friend, because I believe I managed (in barely any text at all) to be both whiny and amazingly vague and un-directional. I don't like sounding like an idiot, but it's much easier to take if it happens only in front of people who know that you are not, in fact, a complete idiot, and that if you are sounding like one it is probably a situational thing. Hopefully.
Proceeded to haul myself away from the computer and settle in to pet the cats. Cuddled up with Babe on the floor, my positioning awkward so as not to disturb her highness. And...fell asleep. In that position. My left shoulder hurt so much when I woke up after the impromptu hour-plus nap. Something about having it folded backward and my weight resting on that side. It's fine now, so apparently the only thing sprained is my dignity, which should be used to it.
I woke up only slightly before I got a survey call. It was a company wanting to get information on how satisfied I am with my health insurance's claims process (on behalf of said insurance company). Unfortunately, they actually wanted me to rate my satisfaction with (and other things, maybe, but the call ended real quick 'cause I was useless) a particular claim. Guess what? I go in every week or two to get allergy shots. The shot clinic compiles a set of sessions, ships it off as one bill to the insurance, gets their money, and I get paperwork of what was paid. Frankly, I don't track it closely - I keep the papers and I check if there's a problem - and I don't really have an opinion on any one transaction. It's a background noise to me. And it's hard to have an opinion on a particular transaction that went just as smoothly as all the other transactions. It's just the system doing what it should. My overall opinion of my health insurance is fairly positive, really. There isn't much wrong with the claims process, if anything, because I don't have to get involved or think about it. But that makes it hard to give an opinion on a particular event and they weren't interested in general impressions. And I wasn't completely awake. (I'm not sure I am now.) Oh well. The world will not end just because I wasn't helpful for their survey, I imagine.
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And what we won't do for our cats.
*L*
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The body-mind connection is.