[Woodcarver] Back So Soon? (Chat)

[SantaCarvinLady at aol.com]

Good grief.   Thought I was gone, didn't you?   Well, I was.  For a minute or 
two.   But now I'm back.   But I'll be gone again soon..........

I've been struggling with complications from what was to be a "simple" tooth 
extraction - ended up with an infection and "dry socket" and unbearable pain, 
blah blah blah.   Antibiotics and pain meds now, which are helping, but it's a 
slow process.   Waited as long as I possibly could to start my trek to Ohio, 
but knowing I'd never make it in time if I didn't get out of here by today, I 
packed the car, and left Seattle this afternoon.    120 miles later, the pain 
and nausea was so bad, I just couldn't go any further without some pain relief 
- but my driving would be even worse if I took my meds, so.....what?     
Well, after doing a bit of crying, then stopping to sit awhile in a forest park 
wrestling with "shoulds" and "cans" and other such traveling companions  - I 
realized this was NOT going to work.    Soooooooooooooooo......I turned around, 
came back home, took my meds and went to sleep.    (Okay, I do admit to finally 
taking the pain meds about 30 minutes before I actually got back home)

I just made a plane reservation for Thursday morning so I'll be at my Angel's 
wedding no matter what.     After all, my bags are already packed :-)

Still in Seattle,

Teri

"Santas for the Soul"
Carvings by Folk Artist Teri Embrey
http://www.teriembrey.com/

"The remarkable thing about this gift of ours is that it has its rise, I am 
convinced, in the very woes which beset us...it is our emotional salvation." ~ 
J.R. Fauset

"Serve dinner backward, do anything...but for goodness sake, do something 
weird." ~ Elsa Maxwell

"In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities 
like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall 
I find what glimmering glory?" ~ Jamaica Kincaid
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