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[cjsmith]

indyansel, I don't believe this! They're awesome! They arrived in styrofoam with an ice pack. And you knew I liked dark! How'd you know/remember that??

apparentparadox, that pillow thing is a GODSEND. I used it all day yesterday and I'm using it now.

The long-acting local is definitely all gone now. It's interesting learning how to get around without letting either forefoot touch ANYTHING. I am realizing how much easier things would be with one good leg, particularly in the bathroom. But I'm still glad I don't have to go through surgery twice!

I suspect, as ouchy as this is, that I have it easy in the post-surgical pain department. After all, at the bottom of the incision just coincidentally happens to be a spot where I don't have a nerve any more.

Since the local's worn off I can feel my toes... most of them. On each foot there is a spot I will never feel again, and let me just say right now that is the weirdest sensation I have experienced in thirty-seven years on this earth. It's not half so freaky when I know it's an anaesthetic. This is ME; this is how my body is, forever. A local is also, somehow, not quite as complete a loss of sensation. I touch these toes with my fingers and it's like they're not there at all. Someone substituted plastic toes. Except that the other side of each toe is there. At that point my brain segfaults. It simply cannot make sense of the input it is getting.

For some reason I am still thinking of all this as a grand adventure.

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall you preferring dark chocolate. It seems to be the more common preference among my friends. And I like to remember those kinds of little details for just such situations. And, hey, you have a bonus ice pack. ;-)

I'm glad you like them. I thought you might be interested in trying the ones with ancho and chipotle chili powder - after my first try, I wish that was a more common find. I can't get Moonstruck locally here - closest is in Champaign, IL, oddly enough.

It definitely sounds like a non-feeling spot would be weird.

And it is a grand adventure - you're journeying into the unknown. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

The bonus ice pack is handy! I can't have too many ice packs right now.

I.LOVE.THAT.DARK.CHOCOLATE. I hadn't tried it when I wrote the post. I now have a new favorite dark chocolate vendor. MMMMMMMMMMMM. The chili pepper one is intriguing and enjoyable, but that plain dark, WOW.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Of course, discussing this has made me go get some out of the pantry to have (Valrhona, though - don't currently have any Moonstruck here). :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I am going to have to see where I can get some Moonstruck locally. If I can, of course. Mmmm. Valrhona is just about as delicious -- enjoy your Valrhona!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Looks like it's carried at a couple of markets in Palo Alto (http://www.moonstruckchocolate.com/Stores.aspx), as well as farther north in the Bay area.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ooo, yum!

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

You enabler you!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I live to serve! ;-)

[airporter.livejournal.com]

Total dark freak, here. Who do I have to kill to get some?

If it makes you talk like this, please, please tell me!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It's called "Moonstruck Chocolate", and here is their store locator. Also available by mail order, evidently!