Walking back to my office. The day is nearly done. It’s clouding over, but still unseasonably mild. A wonderful day to experiment with leaving your jacket behind in the office and walking outside with nothing but your cotton shirt between you and the elements. My path took me past one of the loading docks. A…
Yesterday I briefly feared that what allimom had predicted might well come to pass. My arm was feeling much better; if its rate of recovery continued unchecked, I would have been perfectly healthy by tomorrow morning. This afternoon I can safely predict that this isn’t going to be a problem. The current temptation is to…
I’m at that sweet spot in the pain med where my mind is clear but the pain hasn’t come back yet. I’ll take advantage of it to make a brief update. Yesterday I hurt. There was one thought in my mind, and that was the countdown until I could go home. I had one last…
The soonest Dr. Disc can take me is Thursday morning. I’m not going to make the mistake of accepting a substitute again. Last week taught me my lesson. Thursday morning it is. I should have enough pain killer to last until then.
This weekend has been about stoicism. Or the lack thereof. The predinisone I was taking ended today. I started with a large dose of pred on Monday,and tapered down to the smallest last dose today. Mid-week things were starting to feel better. This weekend they are worse than last weekend. My arm feels as though…
Enough about eyeballs. Let’s talk about me. First of all, the pain is improved from my disc problem. In its place, I’m starting to get transient numbness/pins and needles. This is like the hypoesthesia I experienced back in ’96 or ’97 or whenever the heck my neck went out the last time. The prednisone seems…
This is one of the stranger entries I’ve made. I started with the intention of making this a comment in Wolf’s journal, but it just got way too big. By the way, what do you know about Uveitis or honer’s syndrome? Both eye related problems.. and it would have been bilateral. If it’s alright that…
In his updates of today, AussieDeafMan speaks of researching control freaks. My own observations of Freakus controlus may be of some limited use. Control freaks come in several different subspecies. I have had the dubious pleasure of having four of these subspecies competing for space within my own work environment. They seldom herd together, although…
Perhaps I’m hanging by my neck. But I’m still hanging in there, and I guess some days that’s all that matters. I can’t decide if the neck-arm thing is feeling a little better, or if I’m just getting used to it. At this point I’m happy enough with either option, though. I was apparently more…
How quickly we forget our basic pharmacology. A common side-effect of morphine is nausea. sigh