Thursday, January 15, 2009

That line from "Juno"

One of my favorite lines from the movie "Juno," and there are many, is one the main character utters while in the first stages of delivering a baby: "Ow, ow, fuckity OW!" Honest and an understatement. But that's how I feel every time I get up to do something simple like brush my teeth. Here's how it goes: Sit up from my reclining, foot-elevated position on the couch; grab crutches; hobble over to the bathroom; start brushing. As gravity does its thing and my foot begins to swell inside the cast, the pain comes in waves, and it feels like an approaching cannon sounds: boom, BOom, BOOM. I start thinking the wise thing to do is brush fast. None of this flossing business. Finish up, hustle back, assume the foot-up position, ask my husband for an ice pack, apply pack to the back of my knee and grit my teeth until the booming pain recedes to a blessedly dull ache. The only reason I am brushing my teeth this week is that my dentist is uncannily good at knowing when I've slacked off. Bastard brushes AND flosses, three times daily. I am on a mission to get through a teeth cleaning without a lecture and handful of pink stain pills from him. So I keep getting up, brushing, and thinking of Juno.

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