Skill and Talent

[aceofkittens]

So, I managed to separate my rib cartilage during a particularly violent coughing fit. Now, every time I cough, there's an additional knife-stab in the side. Unfortunately, the only cure for this is time and possibly an Ace bandage. (ha ha, Ace!) Fortunately, painkillers help.

I guess I just didn't know my own strength! :)

Comments

know my own strength

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

the amazing collapsable woman,..you shoud snag the handle Ace Bondage

Re: know my own strength

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

Hahah! Ace_Bondage! I love it!! :) Maybe I should make another LJ! :)

make another LJ

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

hehe, i can be your faithful sidekick "Stub Tow",..;D

[ex-chose.livejournal.com]

holy crap! are you ok????
this must be beyond painful. :[
feel better soon!

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

It's pretty painful, but apparently not painful enough to get Vicodin! :) So I am making do with Motrin. Since it was a "floater" rib, not one of the ones connected to the sternum, it won't take too long to heal. Hopefully. :)

[ex-chose.livejournal.com]

owie. :(

[spican.livejournal.com]

Rib cartilage -- separated??? Is that what you'd "pulled" when I talked to you? Oh, poor baby! {{{{AoK}}}}

I'm glad you're listening to Neil Finn in that case. :) He's very soothing for torn cartilage, though you may still need the Ace bandage. {{{gentle humhug... mmmm...}}}

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that turned out to be the problem. The way the doctor diagnosed it was by gouging the area with his fingers. After I screamed like a little girl, he nodded, "Yup, you separated your rib cartilage." Great bedside manner! :) But the Neil Finn makes me feel peaceful and relaxed! :)

[saladbar.livejournal.com]

That sounds like major pain.

When are you going to get better?

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

Well, if it is pertussis, then I'll be better, oh, two months from now. :)

However, I think I need the liberal application of kittens to myself to truly feel better!

[saladbar.livejournal.com]

Don't say that too loudly. If you were at your mom's I'd run get a litter from the humane society and dump them on you.

[ninjakitten]

Gods, you poor thing! So much sympathy from over in my abdominal trauma corner. Ow, ow. You've seen a doctor, I assume? can they at least give you anything to prevent more coughing?

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

Well... I've been to the doctor 4 times so far. :) And cough syrup w/ codeine isn't enough to make me sleep, nor prevent this cough, so... I'm stuck. But it's good to get all the gunk out. Cough suppressants make all that nummy phlegm sit where it shouldn't sit! :) TASTY!

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

Ow ow ow. Poor you. :-(

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

I'm a sad, broken person... it hurts to laugh, so I can't even watch Wallace & Gromit! :) Not even Wensleydale!

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

Oh no!

Have some virtual cheese that will hopefully cheer you up but not make you laugh.

[brigidshine.livejournal.com]

i find it TOTALLY unfair that you get pain medication for your cough and I HAVE NOTHING FOR THIS WEIGHTED DOWN BLOATED ASS REALLY PAINFUL KIDNEY IN MY BACK WHICH IS WHERE KIDNEYS LIVE.

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

Actually, I didn't get any good pain meds. I've just been taking Motrin. But the crap in the cough syrup is an opiate narcotic, so that did help. But I've stopped taking the cough syrup, as I have to function at work. :/

[black-felt-hat.livejournal.com]

OMG!

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

I just have to add that the solution to all of these medical issues wasn't to run any sort of diagnostic test(a blood test, for example, or maybe the actual test for whooping cough), but, rather, to prescribe 4 courses of antibiotics and steroids.