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[rivka]

Whenever a storm system's moving in after several clear days - on a day like today, for example - it starts up.

"Hey," my body says suggestively. "You have a metal spike through your thigh. A metal spike. Right down the middle of your thighbone. Shouldn't that hurt?"

"Shut up," I say. "I have a little residual stiffness and pain in my hip from the hip replacement, sure. But my thigh never hurt the whole time I had severe arthritis in the hip, and it doesn't hurt nineteen days out of twenty now that I don't have severe arthritis in the hip, so you must just be trying to make me imagine things."

"Throb. Throb. Throb," my body says in response. "A big ol' metal spike, that's what you have. Right through your thigh."

"Shut up," I explain. And maybe it does, for five minutes.

Then: "Throb." "Shut up!"

It's going to be like this all day. Damn it.

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[rivka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, hot baths or a hot tub are the best. A little hard to manage when I'm at work, though. I'm definitely going to hit the bathtub after tonight's Meetup for Dean.

Yay for you having a hot tub in the new house!

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Several years ago, my mother bought me a barley-filled neck warmer/cooler. She got hers for bad headaches, but I've been using it for days when my hip goes on strike. I heat it in the microwave for 3 minutes. I don't have an office at the moment, but if I did, I'd keep it in my desk drawer for emergencies.

[jilesa.livejournal.com]

Yay for you having a hot tub in the new house!

Just so you know, you (collectively, you, Misha, Bill, whoever) are invited to stop by once I'm moved in and settled for dinner and to use the hot tub and/or pool if you'd like. As much as I'll enjoy having it for myself, sharing it with folks is at least part of the fun of having such things. :)