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Yesterday afternoon and evening were about as unpleasant as I can stand. I was popping NSAIDS along with all my fancy complementary medicine. Yessir, and they were only giving me enough respite from the pain not to go screaming naked down the road. I had to take two chill pills, which also help with pain, to get any sleep last night. Back two teeth hurting. Jaw hurting. Tongue hurting. Ear hurting. Hurting, hurting, hurting. I, of course, went back and forth between wondering if I'm 'round the bend and taking comfort in the strength of my resolve.
It still pretty much sucked when I woke up today too. I needed some aspirin badly, but I'm not supposed to take my thyroid with anything. So I took the thyroid and tried to man it out for as long as I could. I might've made a half hour. Maybe. So I nuked myself again with immune support extracts of herbs and shrooms and citrus, and NSAIDS, and just tried mightily to find a comfortable enough posture to bear. I note that hot drinks give a bit of relief. Tea or coffee and probably just plain hot water.
The good part of the insane amount of money I had to pay to get a new hot water heater is that this one actually makes the water hot in my not-a-tub. So I poured a shitload of epsom salts and baking soda in it and filled it with water as hot as I can stand. I submerged the top half of me. Got my whole head under and even let the hot water inside my ears. And stayed that way... with just my nose above water to breathe. When the water started getting cooler, I just filled it up with more really hot water. I did that three times.
Now that I'm out of that consarn imposture, I feel a little loopy, but the pain is almost not there. I don't know how long this will last, but I am keeping up with my blood cleaning and making every attempt to endure it until it is either healed or I can't take it anymore and have to dial 911.
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