Going to be a long whinge and maybe kind of gross.

But also kind of a rave.
Maybe venting will feel better, but...my pregnancy has kind of sucked. Not as bad as many people! The baby is fine, but the pelvic instability has made my life increasingly painful. Its led to a need for permanent low level pain relief and physio and I've just felt generally ( Read more... )

Things that are weird about being pregnant, #167 ( Read more... )

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Muscle weighs quite a lot, and these days I have fairly muscly arms - especially when I'm doing chin-ups, when I get quite defined groups. But they get assumed to be all fat by some folks, who then tell me to go to the gym. Which is hilarious. Essentially, anything that is not incredibly slender on a female is fat, and fat is always, always bad ( Read more... )

I've been very absent for the last week because I haven't been able to see. I had LASEK surgery last Friday (a week ago), and while the ability to see things far away is now there, I have had no reading or computer vision. I'm typing this blown up to 100 points since my near vision is returning at about a meter per day and could take four weeks ( Read more... )

Is now on. Again, I mean ( Read more... )

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Called the surgery this morning about my numb mouth. I was told that about 1% of patients have this as a side effect...ah well. Lucky me. Apparently the nerves are 'traumatised' from the operation and have deactivated as a result. They will probably heal, but might not. They don't know. It's 'wait and see'. Though if they don't fix up within ( Read more... )

The surgery went pretty well, I think. Mindful of what clockworkhands reported regarding her love's experiences of his local anesthetists as a doctor (most go outside the room to read a book O.o) I was a little nervous. Mostly I'm concerned by this point by the aftereffects, I'm really a lot more trashed than I thought I would be, and in a lot of pain. ( Read more... )