Good if confusing news
So I saw the spine specialist today. He said the MRI of my back was a B+, mild arthritis but nothing bad. I told him there wasn't much pain. It's the neuropathy that bothers me. He suggested lyrica and I said no.I know it's standard but a) it never helped MY patients much b) it causes depression/suicidal thoughts and I have enough of that already. We're going to set me p with a specialist who works on stimulating nerves and since I DO respond well to TENS/IFC I think that's a good course of action.
I was at loose ends in Chillicothe after that so I went to the pizza joint I wanted to try for a while in the historic (pay to park) area. It was good but not great, not worth the quarters to park. I did try an antique shop in that area (since I paid for an hour and only needed half that) but it was antique + country art where in it was 90% the latter and yeah no.
I did find a nice coffee shop to chill in Rost. I think it was once a small car dealership based on the glass giant garage door. It was coffee shop/clothing boutique. Their brown butter coffee was a take on caramel machiatto and omg good. I lingered there writing by hand.
I went to TJ Maxx to look for something for the bathroom. Weirdly it was completely different halloween & Christmas decorations than the one in Huntington. I mean usually chains have the same stuff. I didn't find what I wanted. Went to Petland to get flea meds didn't like their prices or how they had the animals randomly jammed in there. A ferret nibbled my finger b ut i didn't buy the meds. Went to Lowes to see if there were any left over Halloween stuff. Yes but not my thing but the christmas stuff was amazing. Didn't buy it either but really fun stuff.
I told Mom I wasn't staying in Cincinnati she was shocked until I said it was 50 miles away and really if I go now I have to keep the christmas gifts here for nearly 2 months and I won't get to do anything else really. I can go back after finals before I go to PA. I can get fancy cheeses then for the holidays. I said I looked to go to the Music Hall (turns out they dont' update their own website but they do on the ticket sales place and I nearly fainted. ALL the tickets were 100-300$ per ticket even for the nutcracker.
I'm like that cannot be right. I checked Pittsburgh. Same prices. Columbus was more and now I'm a little heartbroken. Look, I get that you have to pay the venue and all the performers but my god, this is priced way beyond the average person's budget. I mean if I wanted to take my kid to see the show I'm looking at a house payment for a family. I could see Hamilton in Columbus as it turns out 250 in the nose bleeds and 1300 for on the floor... and that's the heart break. I don't see me ever going back to the ballet/symphony/theater and I used to go all the time. yeah it's been a while but this is shocking.
I did get my hotel for next weekend though and either i'll go to Blennerhassett Island OR to the haunted hocking thing my friend is doing (I could even do both!) But the Lafayette truly was sold out so the microtel by the highway it is. That's fine, free brekkie and it's not downtown which it occurs to me will be nothing but drunken revelry and the odds are good I'll get annoyed if I was in the middle of it.
Somehow my knee was fine all day but somehow here at home I pissed it off and it's swollen badly around the patellar tendon. The TENS unit helped but now that it's over the pain is back. I'm not sure why it's swollen where it is now.
I was at loose ends in Chillicothe after that so I went to the pizza joint I wanted to try for a while in the historic (pay to park) area. It was good but not great, not worth the quarters to park. I did try an antique shop in that area (since I paid for an hour and only needed half that) but it was antique + country art where in it was 90% the latter and yeah no.
I did find a nice coffee shop to chill in Rost. I think it was once a small car dealership based on the glass giant garage door. It was coffee shop/clothing boutique. Their brown butter coffee was a take on caramel machiatto and omg good. I lingered there writing by hand.
I went to TJ Maxx to look for something for the bathroom. Weirdly it was completely different halloween & Christmas decorations than the one in Huntington. I mean usually chains have the same stuff. I didn't find what I wanted. Went to Petland to get flea meds didn't like their prices or how they had the animals randomly jammed in there. A ferret nibbled my finger b ut i didn't buy the meds. Went to Lowes to see if there were any left over Halloween stuff. Yes but not my thing but the christmas stuff was amazing. Didn't buy it either but really fun stuff.
I told Mom I wasn't staying in Cincinnati she was shocked until I said it was 50 miles away and really if I go now I have to keep the christmas gifts here for nearly 2 months and I won't get to do anything else really. I can go back after finals before I go to PA. I can get fancy cheeses then for the holidays. I said I looked to go to the Music Hall (turns out they dont' update their own website but they do on the ticket sales place and I nearly fainted. ALL the tickets were 100-300$ per ticket even for the nutcracker.
I'm like that cannot be right. I checked Pittsburgh. Same prices. Columbus was more and now I'm a little heartbroken. Look, I get that you have to pay the venue and all the performers but my god, this is priced way beyond the average person's budget. I mean if I wanted to take my kid to see the show I'm looking at a house payment for a family. I could see Hamilton in Columbus as it turns out 250 in the nose bleeds and 1300 for on the floor... and that's the heart break. I don't see me ever going back to the ballet/symphony/theater and I used to go all the time. yeah it's been a while but this is shocking.
I did get my hotel for next weekend though and either i'll go to Blennerhassett Island OR to the haunted hocking thing my friend is doing (I could even do both!) But the Lafayette truly was sold out so the microtel by the highway it is. That's fine, free brekkie and it's not downtown which it occurs to me will be nothing but drunken revelry and the odds are good I'll get annoyed if I was in the middle of it.
Somehow my knee was fine all day but somehow here at home I pissed it off and it's swollen badly around the patellar tendon. The TENS unit helped but now that it's over the pain is back. I'm not sure why it's swollen where it is now.