i hope this semester is going good and you are as busy as you need to be but not more so than you want.
i am doing fine basically. last week however i incurred an odd injury while sleeping. when i woke up on monday morning my jaw didn't work right. turns out i sprained it in the night. it is however possible that i have temporomandibular joint disorder, which would be something wrong with my jaw joint and can be rather nasty since that joint is the most complex one in the whole body.
how did this happen, might ask? my best guess is a combination of things. Sleep apnea which leads me to sleep on my side with my jaw open, a habit of supporting my neck in this position by resting my chin on my hand, wrist, or arm, a cat who has become a horrible bed hog and who has recently developed the habit of using my head as an back rest all night long (in order to protect potentially innocent felines here i won't mention the name tiki at this point, but i've been sleeping in this position for the last 20 years and it's never happened before), and last but not least, medications that make me sleep so very deeply at night that discomfort apparently has to reach the level of real pain in order to wake me.
at rest i am in no pain, it only hurts when i try to close my jaw. it hurts so much then that i can not close it all the way. I am on a total liquid diet, i have been ordered not to use my jaw, not even to talk, yawn, or paradoxically to laugh (that's a hard one at the moment!).
ahhhh! the wretched furry cuddle critters jinx us from time to time.
fortunately it does not happen often. the last major injury i sustained that involved a cat was about eighteen years ago when i stumbled and broke my big toe while trying to avoid stepping on mothra who was doing her best to rub my legs, and feet, and herd me in the opposite direction from where i wanted to go.
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