It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

[lebateleur]

The worst of times. I woke up at 6:30 Saturday morning and ran errands until 11:30 when, feeling highly virtuous, I got into my car to begin the first of the long weekend's slate of fun activities. Then I sneezed and DESCENDED DIRECTLY INTO A LIVING HELL.

Namely, a herniated disc. I do not exaggerate when I say I did not realize the human body could register pain of this magnitude. It hurt so badly I was trapped in my car because I was physically unable to open the door to get out. Four hours and a harrowing combination of public transit and taxis later (because the closest urgent care center that accepts my insurance and is open on holiday weekends is in another goddamn state) I was sent home with painkillers and muscle relaxants, which I was told would knock me out. And they did, until pain woke me up again--22 minutes later and well before I could take additional medication. So that has been uniformly horrible.



The best of times. Being housebound, but without the enervation of an illness, I've spent a lot of time reading and Interneting. Thanks to i_am_zan's reminder, I finally backed my LJs up...

...and discovered the URL--that I've spent an eternity try to recall--to my pre-LJ blog. The majority of which was crawled by the Wayback Machine. Including the complete Vampire Chronicles fic I was whimpering about here. Including several Saiyuki, XF, and HP fics I had forgotten I had written. Including an XF fic by metal_dog5 and a Koori fic by HazardBlue. (Alas, the three Snape FQF fics weren't crawled, but could they still be out there somewhere else?) Including the majority of my blog archives. Fifteen-years-ago me was kind of an asshole, but damn did I have some good web design skills.

Seriously, guys, I could not be more tickled to have located this stuff again. And you best believe I've downloaded the lot of it to my computer.


これで以上です。

Comments

[flemmings]

Yikes! to the herniated disc. I hope you get some healing in there.

[lebateleur]

Thank you--strangely enough, moving around is good for it, which I'm trying to do more of each day. I was skeptical when the physician told me that, but it does seem to be helping.

[flemmings]

A coworker herniated one of her discs and was off for eighteen months. There must be different kinds of herniation-- she couldn't move at all for the first two weeks. Glad yours is the semi-mobile kind.

[lebateleur]

Thank you, and good lord, your coworker has my absolute sympathy. I can't even imagine.

[i_am_zan]

Oh gosh! Please heal up fast and be pain free.

... and yeah back it up ... back it all up!

[lebateleur]

Thank you! I'm working on the healing...in the meantime, there is plenty of time to make sure I've got copies of everything on the computer, on DW, on a thumb drive, etc. etc.

[kalloway]

*careful hugs* Best of luck in your recovery. Ow!

But yay for finding all that old stuff. That's great!

[lebateleur]

Thank you. :) And yeah, even though much of it is objectively not good, it's still nice to have the record of what I was thinking and writing from all those years back.

[just_ann_now]

Ohmigosh! I'm so sorry to hear that! At least you have the Internet, and books. Eeep.

[lebateleur]

Thank you--and yes, both are helping tremendously. And thank goodness for Overdrive. :)

[villeinage]

Sooo sorry about the disc!

I did that a few years ago, and luckily for me, the ER doc had ALSO herniated a disc a few years before, and said the single most helpful thing anyone has ever said about it, so I share:

You WILL get better. It may not feel like it, it may heal much more slowly than you think it should, but you will get better.

(Also, personally, I totes recommend the oral steroids, if warranted, notwithstanding the miserable side effects.)

[lebateleur]

Oh god, I'm sorry to hear that happened to you too! I knew these sorts of injuries were painful, but I had no idea how much more so than a sprain or twinged muscle until it actually happened. The first few days were unbelievable.

They did prescribe steroids, which make me woozy and dry-mouthed, but they are indeed helping. And thank you for passing on the doc's words too--very helpful to hear indeed!

[metal_dog5]

Ow! I hope you are starting to feel better and are able to move around without too much discomfort.

Yay for you finding your old blog & fic. :D

[lebateleur]

Supposedly moving around is one of the better things you can do for it, so I've been trying to do a little more of that each day. (I was skeptical, but it does seem to be helping, or at least not hurting.)

And yeah, it's kinda crazy to think the WayBack Machine picked it up at all, given how few people probably ever read it. But there it was!