Am I am healer over achiever?

[susandennis]

This morning I feel way way way better.  There are still store spots when I poke them with my tongue but wow.  It's a huge difference.  I woke up about 4 and it hurt even then so I took a couple of  ibuprofen and went back to sleep.  I slept really well all night (I LOVE this adjustable bed) and now - 9 am - I feel so much better that it's amazing.  No leaden face, no throbbing.  It almost feels like I could chew if I were really careful. Maybe I can eat the dinner I took out of the freezer on Tuesday (pork chops with pears and potatoes).

Maybe I can even go swimming.  The West Seattle pool opens at noon.  Maybe.

I do need to walk over to the post office.  But, that's about it for half to's.

I am so lucky to have the time and means to wallow in recovery.  And it looks like I might just beat that Bad Day 4 with my Bad Day 2 and call it good from here on out.

I got two prescriptions filled this week with my new insurance. Neither were expensive but I was only charged about 20% of the cost.  Yeah.  The two I had filled via Walgreens mail order are still 'in process'  and the insurance website does not yet show any claims so I was not sure my insurance had really kicked in.  But now I know it has.  And that means that at least for a year and maybe longer as long as Premera does what I need, I may not have to worry about insurance shit again!  Whew.

Comments

[zimzat.livejournal.com]

Part of the feeling better may be lingering pain killers in the system (happens to me regularly when I take them) or the sore spot could still be in the early stages of recovery where it's healing and not hurting but potentially easy to bruise and tenderize to the point of becoming painful again. I'd lean toward wallowing in that recovery time. :)

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

I only hurt for about a day after the root canal. There was a dull ache once in a while, but I didn't even use the 10 days worth of pain meds I got.