A Handful of Dreams

Well, I survived the surgery with my gums (mostly) intact. It was a pleasant surprise that it wasn’t as painful as I thought that it would be… at least until the Novocain wore off. The oral surgeon was nicer than most of my dentists have been. He swabbed the area where he injected Novocain with [...]

At 2pm this afternoon, I’m having gum surgery. I’d ask you all to think good thoughts for me, but I’m not sure if I want to force you all to contemplate my gums. Besides, the dentist claims that this will be relatively painless and I am steadfastly attempting to believe him. He also claims that [...]

I feel like I’ve done a lot of complaining lately. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this feeling might have something to do with all of the complaining that I’ve been doing lately. Considering the fact that I’m usually one of the first people to get annoyed when someone [...]

The orthopedist called me Monday and said, “Good news! You don’t have a stress fracture… but you do have an inflamed plantar fascia, achilles tendon and [another tendon whose name I can't remember.]” I’m thinking that this guy and I have different definitions of “good news.” Also, is it wrong of me to feel kindof [...]

How does the phrase go? Don’t write checks that your ass can’t cash. And pay your parking tickets or they’ll put a boot on you. Yeah. I ran a half marathon a little over a month ago and I finished, even though my foot was in so much pain by mile 10 that I was [...]