This doesn’t hurt but I have this strange throbbing/tingling sensation in the center of my left thumb tip where the nail meets the nail bed. That nail has always been the worst too, as far as the discoloration goes. No idea what the hell is wrong with my nails, but I have a feeling it’s not going away anytime soon and that it’s not a simple matter of too much nail polish.

Anyway, yesterday was the first time I didn’t have to take Ibuprofen just to sleep. Just when I woke up starting to think maybe I killed my tooth infection, I was in the worst pain ever trying to eat my delicious home-cooked meal of garlic tilapia and seasoned broccoli. It was so bad I almost cried out in pain. So I’m back to a mix of ibuprofen, ice, and this new mouthwash Tom got with analgesic and astringent in it. The only thing that really does me much good is to not eat or drink anything too cold or too hot. All it takes is something like that hitting the nerve since the root is exposed and it’s like OMFG! Tomorrow morning can’t come fast enough.

I haven’t noticed the lump at the lower base of my neck lately so maybe that was a case of occasionally swollen lymph nodes and had nothing to do with my thyroid. I don’t know.

I totally see what Christine and so many others mean when they say that sex over 50 is nothing like when you’re younger. If you can get in the mood in the first place, you don’t even get off like you used to. You do but you don’t. It’s almost like you start to cum and then your body changes its mind at the last minute. If this is TMI for some people, sorry! Happens to the best of us, though.