A Pause During The Battle of Hogwarts
They’re both leaning on the same half destroyed soot covered wall both trying to act casual as if the wall isn’t more than half holding them up.
“So,” he says. “What House were you in?”
“Hufflepuff,” she says and waits for the surprised laugh or the look of pure incomprehension because Everyone Knows that Hufflepuffs can’t—, that they aren’t—and before her thoughts can continue down that well-worn path he’s replied.
“Loyalty,” he says and nods like it makes sense, as if he’d expected it.
And she’s looking at him dumfounded and too tired to hide it and says, “So what about you then?”
He looks away and stares into some middle-distance, “Slytherin.”
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As most of you know I have chronic pain and fatigue (fibromyalgia, arthritis, insomnia and cfs) and even before all that I was prone to anxiety. So I've been in a cycle of bad-place, better-place for the last 8 years. I think I might be finally hitting a "good" place now rather than just a "better" one. Of course I've felt that way every time I've come out of my depression! Bah! It's hard to tell from the inside.
Let me see if I can give the quick update.( I can't! It's not that quick so have an LJ cut...Collapse )
Right so I'll leave you with a gen HP drabble that just sort of spilled out. 115 words not counting the rather long title *thbbt* :-P
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contemplative
I had a nasty reaction on waking up from the anethesia where I was in horrible pain but since I had mostly anticipated that and warned everyone I was able to get some decent drugs. Whenever I have surgery and occasionally due to other things (three times due to bouts of tonsillitus!) my nerves get hyper-sensitive and almost nothing calms them down but HEAVY narcotics. Once I get that single dose of drugs though my nerves are pacified and I don't need the heavy drugs again. It's weird. They kept giving me fentanyl but that did nothing and when the doctor came back I heard the nurse tell him I was "sucking up narcotics" and still in horrible pain. So he authorized a dose of dilaudid and that did the trick.
After that they were able to move me from post-op into the general recovery ward where I stayed for a few hours. I was quite hungry actually and had a pudding cup as well as some sherbert. I was giving vicodin and a script of it to bring home. I am being very careful to wake up every few hours now and hydrate as I guess it is VERY important my throat stay moist. I had one small amount of bleeding at 5:30pm or so but was able to stop it with ice water. Bleeding is the big danger to watch out for apparently but so far so good!
Wednesday: Meet new Primary Care Doc
Thursday: ?!?
Friday: Getting my Tonsils Out!!!
PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC
- Current Mood:
nervous
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amusedStupid insomnia, stupid tonsillitus. Argh.
Am still not better from tonsillitus that started on Sunday evening despite almost a complete round of antibiotics, something that has always worked in the past.
Couldn't sleep last night after basically sleeping from Monday afternoon through Thursday afternoon (with a brief resurrection and prompt over-doingness on Wed evening). Then went to bed today (nice and gloomy with eye cover, heated blanket, chilly room, and no hubby to hog covers) and COULDN'T FRIGGEN SLEEP! Aiiiieeee. The CFS/ME (chronic fatigue) is irritating enough on its own the insomnia is not necessary! (Sleep study confirms that I come to awareness approx 17 times PER HOUR!) Boo hiss.
The cherry on top of the illness sundae is that I was supposed to go see the new baby cousin (5 weeks) this weekend but hubby and I are both on the tail end of sick and so may not be allowed. :(
Tried to call unemployment office as they are withholding my monies due to confusion about me apparently refusing a job offer. I did not refuse anything, I haven't received one! But I apparently checked the wrong ticky box when filing for my weekly benfits. Boo hiss. This week they have been "out of order" or "experiencing unusually high call volume" and then auto HANGING UP on me. Gah, I'd rather be on hold for an hour just to get this bloody solved!
Ooh and at the moment husbeast and I are both freaking out a bit because he graduates in Dec and then both of us are unemployed and he will have $700 of student loans due every month starting January!
The real sticky point is my parents want to fly us to visit them in Florida over the holidays (something we've been planning since they moved over a year ago) and they will pay for the WHOLE THING but hubby is resistant and being an asshole because... he doesn't feel like going on vacation is right when he doesn't have a job yet. So NOT going will magically conjure one from thin air? I could understand if we were paying for it but....... aaaaaargh. Am I being unreasonable or is he?
*grumps*
Sorry for depressive, grumpy post everyone.
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