Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[Sunny]

I'm cold.

If I turn my heater on it will be too hot.

sigh.

[saosmash]

depression

[Ganymede]

@saosmash

anti-depressants

[Auspice]

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@saosmash

anti-depressants

when they work.

One of the most infuriating parts about anti-depressions is

a) chemical imbalances are assholes and don't always stay consistent, so sometimes it's just TOO MUCH FOR THE DRUGS for a few days or so
b) meds need to be adjusted every year or so

ETA:
my frustration/depression today is finding a clinic I can go to. My knee is just getting worse. I'm putting off basic chores like 'take out the trash' and 'do laundry' because it requires going down/up the stairs from my apartment.

Called the clinic I applied to: no record of my app (and that was after waiting over an hour on hold to learn!)
Called another clinic: no appts until November and they can't book for November until October
The third clinic (that I've been able to stir up) is walk-in only on Tues/Thurs so I'm gonna go tomorrow and hope I can be seen...... or else I'll just waste gas and aggravate my knee for no reason (which is part of why I hadn't counted them in the first place; I literally cannot afford to drive out there over and over).

[Ganymede]

@Auspice

I understand.

Here’s some more anti-depressants.

[surreality]

So, had nothing gone wrong, I would have all the implant work, top and bottom, done now.

Instead, there are still temporaries up top that keep being trimmed down as new and interesting(1) problems keep coming up.

For all that I am a bigmouth, my actual mouth is fucking tiny. Way tiny. 'Use the kiddie tools' tiny. 'We don't make a mold frame that small so the dentist had to kitbash one' tiny.

This also means 'not a whole lot of bone to fuck around with'.

This also means 'well we don't do implants in tiny children so there are a limited range of sizes for implant posts, and we're already using the very smallest they make and they're still a bit big for you'.

We could have been closer to the finish line here, but the implants on one side failed early in the year, ***avoid this detail dental phobics***

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since the initial extraction ripped out large chunks of jawbone with the teeth in that area. Not the first time this has happened, either; apparently when I grind my teeth, the cracks that form have a bad habit of fusing with the jawbone trying to 'heal'. Nnnnnngh!

Just before Covid hit, they did bone grafts. There are a lot of options to use here, but I could have gone my whole life not knowing they weren't using coral or the synthetics, but... donor bone. THANKS GUYS NOW I'M FRANKENSTEIN'S CHOMPSTER.

They wanted to check on them bi-weekly to ensure they took... but then everything closed for months. Welp.

Temporary piece cracks AGAIN, and in a way that breaks one of the posts, so it now needs to be replaced. FUCK ME. This 3-6 month process for the top is now on month 14 or 15.

I go in to see what's what. They do xrays and a full 360... I don't actually know if it's a catscan or some kind of head-only MRI, but they do it. 'Welp, the grafts didn't go well, so we can maybe put one post over there and it'll have to do'.

Yesterday -- my poor husband's birthday, no less -- we go in with a plan: remove newly broken post, put in one post in the previously grafted area.

There is suddenly a new plan. Remove the newly broken one and graft that, place the one he knows he can on the other side, AND put in a second over there surrounded by graft material at the same time to all heal up at once.

Again, the moment he starts working, he realizes the scans were not showing him anything remotely like what was going on in there. NOT the first time this has happened; it's happened to him 3x now with me and it's happened with another oral surgeon years ago. My skull is apparently x-ray-defying levels of fucking WEIRD, so he has to improvise along to a plan #3.

I'm further frankenboned. Two new posts are in... one to be placed later, after months of the other graft healing, which, IF EVERYTHING WORKS THIS TIME, means that 3-6 month process will have taken 2 years.

My face is so swollen on the left that, if I look down at the keyboard, I can see how huge my cheek is in my lower peripheral vision, in the way that you can sorta see your nose when glancing in certain directions.

Ow. Ow? Fucking ow.

Frankenbone, titanium and something (some kind of porcelain I think, we couldn't afford the zirconium obvs) teeth, weird custom organ from years ago. This shit is all very Cyberpunk 2020, and while conveniently it is 2020, I would have preferred the magic robospine and those color-changing fingernails from The 5th Element if I had to be a cyborg or a flesh golem.

1. Interesting in that 'may you live in interesting times' sense of the word.

[Sunny]

The coworker that always laughs at my jokes is on vacay for a week.

Team meeting calls are really awk atm, let me tell you.

[Tinuviel]

@Sunny 7.25 an hour and I will hang around in any group discussion and giggle at your witticisms.

[RightMeow]

@Ganymede

Someone brought her kitten into work. Now as the boss, I had to say no. Take it back to your car. -- Which I did.

After I snuggled it like it had never been snuggled before.

[Ganymede]

@RightMeow

I don't care who you are or where you've been or what you did, as long as you let kittens warm your heart.

We have an office cat. Office cat loves me. Fates willing, I will have a kitty in the new year.

And then y'all will never see me again because I'll be loving it totally and wholly alla time.

[surreality]

@Ganymede I am happy to hear this. I know it's been a hard issue to consider, and I hope it means you're feeling at least a little better about things.

[SixRegrets]

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@RightMeow

I don't care who you are or where you've been or what you did, as long as you let kittens warm your heart.

We have an office cat. Office cat loves me. Fates willing, I will have a kitty in the new year.

And then y'all will never see me again because I'll be loving it totally and wholly alla time.

Adding 'office cat' to my list of ideas for the game I'm working on, don't mind me none.

[Ganymede]

@SixRegrets

Office cat is awesome.

Office cat is a staple in a law firm.

Like, we don’t know where the evil is, but we’re pretty sure he does and doesn’t give a fuck as long as we keep hurling treats at him to keep the evil in check.

We believe they keep the undead away.

[SixRegrets]

@Ganymede Oh, that's easy. The evil's in the c-suite.

[Ganymede]

@SixRegrets said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Oh, that's easy. The evil's in the c-suite.

[Derp]

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@SixRegrets

Office cat is awesome.

Office cat is a staple in a law firm.

Like, we don’t know where the evil is, but we’re pretty sure he does and doesn’t give a fuck as long as we keep hurling treats at him to keep the evil in check.

We believe they keep the undead away.

I humbly request pictures of office cat. Because I want to see the kitty, and not at all to convince my boss that other professionals allow live office mascots. <.< >.>

[Derp]

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@SixRegrets said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Oh, that's easy. The evil's in the c-suite.

That looks like it could have been a scene from Sleepwalkers.

[Ganymede]

@Derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I humbly request pictures of office cat. Because I want to see the kitty, and not at all to convince my boss that other professionals allow live office mascots. <.< >.>

Not mine, but here you go.

It's really not uncommon. But someone has to be a primary care provider for the office cat, and willing to take them on weekends or vacation days.

[Macha]

I wish they would let us have something like that, but as we're a public service office, it's a no go. Otherwise I would totally be pitching Logan for office doggo. He would totally just wander the floor, answering calls to be pet and given treats. And then curl up near mom, when he decided he was tired.

If only I could afford to have him trained as an actual diabetic dog, as he already signals when my sugars are way out of whack without the training. But then I could take him places.
Which would be way better for me in my life, no lie.

[Ganymede]

@Macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I wish they would let us have something like that, but as we're a public service office, it's a no go.

So, I keep hearing that public service offices cannot have office pets, but am reminded constantly of how pets have held public office and seriously question if that policy may be bullshit.

Also, this.