So I've got this bizarre high tolerance for pain.

[Pacifist Patriot]

I've belt tested in taekwondo with cracked ribs, given birth three times without so much as an aspirin, and barely feel a thing during a waxing. I am woman hear me roar.

So why do I turn in to a sniveling little baby whenever I get a sore throat? Will it get you in trouble with the Secret Service if you express fantasies of breathing on the Bush administration when you have strep?

I've been in excrutiating pain for six days and I can't talk. My definition of hell. Though perhaps not so much for my husband. :)

Ask me anything. I haven't anything better to do and I can't talk to anyone. Which is making primary care of three children quite interesting this week. Thank goodness I taught them a smattering of sign language when they were babies and toddlers. They now seem to have figured out the difference between a request and a screaming order just by the speed of my hands and the size of the motion.

Distract me from my throat. Please!

[MonkeyFunk]

1. ugh

I'm not a big sissy, but sore throats just destroy me. It's acute pain, and you're reminded of it every time you swallow. You can't eat... it sucks.

Hint - get some bottles of liquid yogurt to drink.

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. Liquid yogurt, hot toddy with bourbon, liquid yogurt, hot toddy with bourbon...

Let me get back to you on that. ;)

[MonkeyFunk]

8. you need honey

in your toddies. But it sounds like a good treatment plan to me!

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. No honey in the house. I'm hoping agave will suffice.

[MonkeyFunk]

12. it'll help soothe the throat...

but gad, I had the taste of that stuff.

[taterguy]

2. What's the best hike you've ever been on?

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. Hmmm, tough call. Either...

through the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia or the Black Forest in Germany. Both were in the fall. Common theme there I guess. You?

[taterguy]

7. Grand Canyon late March 2004

18 miles from the South Rim to the Colorado River and back in one day. Eleven hours by myself. There are signs saying not to attempt that in one day but it was one of the most beautiful and intense things I've ever done, especially how good it felt to take my boots off when I finished.

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. Wow, that sounds wonderful.

I haven't been to the Grand Canyon since I was three years old. Needless to say, the experience is lost on me. It's on my list for sometime in the next five years.

[taterguy]

13. Alas there aren't many pics

I didn't have a digital camera back then, just a cheap instamatic, which is probably a good thing. If I had a digitial with one of those 1 gig memory cards I would have spent too much time taking pics and gotten stuck on the trail long after dark

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. Another wow!

[LostinVA]

3. Me too

The oral surgeon was shocked a few weeks ago when I said I didn't want to eb put out -- just some local. They had to grind down, break apart, and GOUGE out a tooth.

:cry:

Most unpleasant.

And, to top it off, I can't take opiate-based painkillers.

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. I over-react to any narcotic.

The doc wanted to prescribe a cough medicine with codeine and I told (gestured to) him not to bother. A quarter dose and I'll feel loopy for the next three days. The feeling is worse than any symptom relief I get.

[taterguy]

11. What song do you wish you wrote?

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. Happy Birthday To You and copyrighted it.

With royalties due every time it is sung. *grin*

[taterguy]

16. Describe a moment of unexpected bliss

That should provide you with a pleasant distraction

[Pacifist Patriot]

17. Good one, but how shallow is this.

I returned home before my husband and kids Sunday before last. I was there by myself for a good hour before they came in. It dawned on me about ten minutes into it that this was the first time I had been in my own home completely and utterly alone for probably well over a year...or two. It was blissful.