I have my blog linked to my account over at Ravelry.com and thought to myself this morning that there are probably quite a few people who *wouldn't* want to read about some of the things I have posted recently in my regular blog, so I created a new one! LOL
So here it is! :) I think I am going to post this one on both blogs... I'm still trying to figure it all out...
http://knittinglzrd.blogspot.com/
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
It's been awhile!
I didn't realize how long its been till I checked my blog the other day. *giggle* I guess life is just getting in the way, huh? I have good reasons though... I guess... sorta...
November I was still trying to get settled into some sort of routine and I was almost there. Then I decided that the pain in my wrist I was having should probably get checked out and I should probably get that annual exam done that I haven't had since 2005. So I called to make an appointment, thinking it would be weeks before I could get in about either. I mean I was trying the last year to get in for my annual at our last duty assignment, so I thought they were all like that. (In NY we saw civilian docs so it was a totally different process) Well, I called first thing in the morning on a Monday and it was busy. OK, no big, I'll try again later. I try again an hour or so later and still busy. Hmm... guess it will be the same as in WA. Great. So I try calling every hour or so and my hopes are dwindling with each call. Finally I am about to give up and tell myself just one more call before I call it quits for the day. Its picked up on the second ring! WOW! That was neat! Then I explain what I need the appointments for and she says something like "well let me see what we have available, can I put you on hold for a second?" and I just sort of deflate a little. I think surely its going to take awhile for her to look so I decide let's go potty while being on hold! TMI, I know lol No sooner had I started to go did she come back! YIKES! Then she tells me there is one the next day for my wrist. For reals? I'll take it! Then she starts looking for my other appointment and they have one for that Thursday! HOLY COW! That's crazy! You mean I can be seen in the same week as the phone call to make the appointent? That's unheard of! So I book both appointments and think I am good to go! It wasn't till later that I realized the one the next day was the same time that Boober usually gets home from school! DOH! By this time DH is walking in the door from work and I tell him I have my appointments set so I need to keep the car those two days and the usual "how was work" stuff happens.
THEN I realize I have to figure out the whole Boober coming home thing. She has her own key, but she's my baby so I am a little more leery of leaving her home alone than I ever was with Goblin. I hope that the appointment goes fast enough that I can jet outta there and be home shortly after her, but I know that isn't gonna happen. Lucky for me, DH was still pretty much doing his own thing with studying and such so he was able to leave early and be home when she got here. PHEW!
SO I go in and doc thinks its a Ganglion cyst. A WHAT?!?! He orders some x-rays on my wrist to be sure there isn't some sort of fracture or anything. (I'm a clutz so its entirely possible I have a fracture and don't realize it! LOL) He then suggests I see an orthopedist to be sure its a cyst and not something more serious. I'm given a lovely brown brace that goes almost all the way to my elbow. Can we saw overkill? I tough it out that night, trying to figure out how to wear the dang thing. If I had my palm resting on the plate at the front then my thumb goes numb and tingly. Hmm... don't think that's a good thing so I end up wearing it kinda weird and its doing nothing for my wrist pain and actually causing some in my fingers! UGH No worries, I will talk to my doc on Thursday when I go in for the other stuff. Did I mention I had to do some fasting blood work at that appointment as well? YUP! Silly me though I could wait till after my noon appointment to eat. Who knew I would actually wake up hungry for a change!
So I make it to my appointment with plenty of time to spare. Turns out a guy who had the day off came in and the doc thought it best that he go to the ER so they could better treat him. No big, shit happens! He has the gal that is going to assist with my wonderful exam (I am sure the ladies know which one I refer too) and she tells me what's going on and he should be in soon. No worries, I get it. about 5 minutes later she comes in AGAIN to apologize. Did I mention that this whole time I am sitting on the exam table with the sheet on my lap and the gown that was OBVIOUSLY made for a woman of a much smaller stature than myself? Hmm... good thing it was warm in the exam room, huh? He comes in and we chat the whole time the exam is happening. The usual stuff, how many kids? any surgeries? periods normal and regular?
After the exam I am informed that I might have to have it redone. HUH? I've never been told that before so it was cause for concern. Guess a week before you are due to have a period is an iffy time to do it. GREAT! Oh well... haven't had it done in 2 yrs so why not! Then he asks about the wrist pain and if the brace is helping. Not really, but I am making do. He asks the gal that was assisting to hunt down another, smaller one to see if that makes a difference. While she is looking we talk in his office about what we could do about the wrist pain and he orders the blood work. He then says he will send in a referral for an appointment with the orthopedist. At this point I am thinking I will just take a wait and see approach to the pain. See if I can get it under control with just the brace and some Advil. Weekend comes and I forget all about it all. Then Monday I get a phone call from the hospital to set up an appointment. Talk about service! I expected a letter in the mail in a couple weeks and here I have them calling me to make an appointment! I like the system here already!
End up having the appointment for the next day and get my choice of times. I go in, he orders more x-rays because I didn't bring the others with me and they didn't have time to order my records to be sent across town and we chat about my options. I want to take the wait and see approach and avoid all needles! Besides, the stats I've read about aspirations weren't that great. I don't really have a noticeable lump, just mostly the pain.
So for the next month or so I have a brace and am taking Mobic. The second brace I got at the clinic was better, but I still couldn't use my thumb. So DH and I head to the drug store to see what we can find. End up with a THIRD brace but this one seems to work much better for me. Now I get to figure out the typing! LOL I'm doing much better now with it so am actually able to work again. I took most of that one week off because I was making so many more typos than usual and I can't afford to do that in my line of work.
Which brings me to now... I can't believe its already the second week of December! WHERE has the time gone? December 10th sort of snuck up on me this year. Can you believe its been 22 yrs already? I told DH Sunday night that if I could I would make him and the children all stay home on the 10th. Shorty ended up staying him sick though. For those reading that wonder the significance, lets just say bad things happen on the 10th of December for me... I'm sure most will say its all just coincidental, but I'm one of those that thinks, there really are no coincidences in life. So 22 yrs ago, my father died. He was 39. I can't remember how many years ago it was now, but DH had a really bad accident at work and had it gone just slightly different, I would have been widowed that day. Thank the gods he was just really bruised and beat up looking!
OK, I'm rambled enough and you probably know WAY more about me than you ever wanted to by now. So I will end with this...
I want a nap! LMAO
November I was still trying to get settled into some sort of routine and I was almost there. Then I decided that the pain in my wrist I was having should probably get checked out and I should probably get that annual exam done that I haven't had since 2005. So I called to make an appointment, thinking it would be weeks before I could get in about either. I mean I was trying the last year to get in for my annual at our last duty assignment, so I thought they were all like that. (In NY we saw civilian docs so it was a totally different process) Well, I called first thing in the morning on a Monday and it was busy. OK, no big, I'll try again later. I try again an hour or so later and still busy. Hmm... guess it will be the same as in WA. Great. So I try calling every hour or so and my hopes are dwindling with each call. Finally I am about to give up and tell myself just one more call before I call it quits for the day. Its picked up on the second ring! WOW! That was neat! Then I explain what I need the appointments for and she says something like "well let me see what we have available, can I put you on hold for a second?" and I just sort of deflate a little. I think surely its going to take awhile for her to look so I decide let's go potty while being on hold! TMI, I know lol No sooner had I started to go did she come back! YIKES! Then she tells me there is one the next day for my wrist. For reals? I'll take it! Then she starts looking for my other appointment and they have one for that Thursday! HOLY COW! That's crazy! You mean I can be seen in the same week as the phone call to make the appointent? That's unheard of! So I book both appointments and think I am good to go! It wasn't till later that I realized the one the next day was the same time that Boober usually gets home from school! DOH! By this time DH is walking in the door from work and I tell him I have my appointments set so I need to keep the car those two days and the usual "how was work" stuff happens.
THEN I realize I have to figure out the whole Boober coming home thing. She has her own key, but she's my baby so I am a little more leery of leaving her home alone than I ever was with Goblin. I hope that the appointment goes fast enough that I can jet outta there and be home shortly after her, but I know that isn't gonna happen. Lucky for me, DH was still pretty much doing his own thing with studying and such so he was able to leave early and be home when she got here. PHEW!
SO I go in and doc thinks its a Ganglion cyst. A WHAT?!?! He orders some x-rays on my wrist to be sure there isn't some sort of fracture or anything. (I'm a clutz so its entirely possible I have a fracture and don't realize it! LOL) He then suggests I see an orthopedist to be sure its a cyst and not something more serious. I'm given a lovely brown brace that goes almost all the way to my elbow. Can we saw overkill? I tough it out that night, trying to figure out how to wear the dang thing. If I had my palm resting on the plate at the front then my thumb goes numb and tingly. Hmm... don't think that's a good thing so I end up wearing it kinda weird and its doing nothing for my wrist pain and actually causing some in my fingers! UGH No worries, I will talk to my doc on Thursday when I go in for the other stuff. Did I mention I had to do some fasting blood work at that appointment as well? YUP! Silly me though I could wait till after my noon appointment to eat. Who knew I would actually wake up hungry for a change!
So I make it to my appointment with plenty of time to spare. Turns out a guy who had the day off came in and the doc thought it best that he go to the ER so they could better treat him. No big, shit happens! He has the gal that is going to assist with my wonderful exam (I am sure the ladies know which one I refer too) and she tells me what's going on and he should be in soon. No worries, I get it. about 5 minutes later she comes in AGAIN to apologize. Did I mention that this whole time I am sitting on the exam table with the sheet on my lap and the gown that was OBVIOUSLY made for a woman of a much smaller stature than myself? Hmm... good thing it was warm in the exam room, huh? He comes in and we chat the whole time the exam is happening. The usual stuff, how many kids? any surgeries? periods normal and regular?
After the exam I am informed that I might have to have it redone. HUH? I've never been told that before so it was cause for concern. Guess a week before you are due to have a period is an iffy time to do it. GREAT! Oh well... haven't had it done in 2 yrs so why not! Then he asks about the wrist pain and if the brace is helping. Not really, but I am making do. He asks the gal that was assisting to hunt down another, smaller one to see if that makes a difference. While she is looking we talk in his office about what we could do about the wrist pain and he orders the blood work. He then says he will send in a referral for an appointment with the orthopedist. At this point I am thinking I will just take a wait and see approach to the pain. See if I can get it under control with just the brace and some Advil. Weekend comes and I forget all about it all. Then Monday I get a phone call from the hospital to set up an appointment. Talk about service! I expected a letter in the mail in a couple weeks and here I have them calling me to make an appointment! I like the system here already!
End up having the appointment for the next day and get my choice of times. I go in, he orders more x-rays because I didn't bring the others with me and they didn't have time to order my records to be sent across town and we chat about my options. I want to take the wait and see approach and avoid all needles! Besides, the stats I've read about aspirations weren't that great. I don't really have a noticeable lump, just mostly the pain.
So for the next month or so I have a brace and am taking Mobic. The second brace I got at the clinic was better, but I still couldn't use my thumb. So DH and I head to the drug store to see what we can find. End up with a THIRD brace but this one seems to work much better for me. Now I get to figure out the typing! LOL I'm doing much better now with it so am actually able to work again. I took most of that one week off because I was making so many more typos than usual and I can't afford to do that in my line of work.
Which brings me to now... I can't believe its already the second week of December! WHERE has the time gone? December 10th sort of snuck up on me this year. Can you believe its been 22 yrs already? I told DH Sunday night that if I could I would make him and the children all stay home on the 10th. Shorty ended up staying him sick though. For those reading that wonder the significance, lets just say bad things happen on the 10th of December for me... I'm sure most will say its all just coincidental, but I'm one of those that thinks, there really are no coincidences in life. So 22 yrs ago, my father died. He was 39. I can't remember how many years ago it was now, but DH had a really bad accident at work and had it gone just slightly different, I would have been widowed that day. Thank the gods he was just really bruised and beat up looking!
OK, I'm rambled enough and you probably know WAY more about me than you ever wanted to by now. So I will end with this...
I want a nap! LMAO
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