So good news is not happening here
On the other hand it's not as bad as it could be either so there's that.
My uncle came through the surgery okay so that's good.
As for me, last time it took over an hour to get to Chillicothe (should take 40 minutes) so I gave myself an hour and fifteen minutes (after not sleeping all night) I get there in 40 minutes...so I go to TJ Maxx. Keep in mind it's 1030 on a Friday. I find a few things, go to pay and it looks like Black Friday (And I had to hear Mariah Carey singing Christmas songs) No lie the line up maze they have at check out is filled and lined up outside it too, no less than 30 people. I don't need a half broken wooden tombstone and a wood spatula that badly. I put it back.
The Sports Med guy goes, yeah can you hang out and see the neurosurgeon today? YEs I can. Sports guy thinks that much of this is just the sheer amount of damage I did in that fall. Fair. He wants to start the cock'scomb hylaronic acid injections (fine). The neuro is the one who did my nerve conduction study. I'm friend's with his mother in law and taught his wife. He comes in and hugs me like I'm a family friend. (well he does know me from family parties)
He thinks as well this is a combo party. Usually neurogenic claudication is from stenosis which I don't really have and the foramina narrowing/pinched nerve is on the left. He agrees that the claudication symptoms could be from the nerve damage in the knee BUT also I have femoral acetabular impingement syndrome, a cracked labrum plus the spondylosis. We could do a spinal stimulator (Nope, I'm not in that much pain) or radio ablation of the nerves going to the facets of the spine and deal with the arthritis that way. Yes we can do that. He think it stands a chance because exercise makes it better. I'm fine walking (backwise that is) it's sitting/standing still hurts and has done since I was a surgeon (leading us to think the impingement syndrome is in play) so we're going to start with a nerve block which if that works the ablation will too. Might have to try epidural steroids too (let's hold off on putting steroids into my CSF)
We have a treatment plan but at the end of the day there is no cure (i knew this) so welcome to yet another chronic illness to go in the bag with all my others.
But this has now run until 130 in the afternoon. My work webinar has started. By the time i get home it'll be over so I'm like screw it. Let's go do something so I go into a part of the historic district of Chillicothe (and got yelled at by some fucker who made a right turn on red and nearly hit me as I'm going through the intersection) I go to Grandview Cemetery. It did have a grand view and some things I've not seen before, like modern day crypts, mini ones but there. I saw an older than the graveyard family graveyard in its center (THe Felix Renick family. I looked him up, a pioneer into Ohio when it was still Native territory who was an 'Indian Hunter' who came to regret it later in life saying there was a huge debt that couldn't be paid) I saw some other weird names (where I wrote them down I don't know) but my favorite last name was Quick Valentine and some poor bastard I thought was named Donald Duck. Nope. It was Dick. Donald Dick which is somehow worse.
I go to Tim Horton for a caramel apple latte, large, hot with a splenda in it. They ask Can you repeat the size and I say large. I pull up to the window and the young woman there has napkins in her hand and a medium drink. I said is that a large. She glares at me, 'you ordered a medium.' No, I didn't. You asked me to repeat it so I said twice I wanted a large. She slams the napkins down and storms off. I call after her, it's fine, I'll take the medium. She stalks back over. 'It wasn't me that took your order,' as storms back off (she was wearing the drive thru head set so I assumed it was her) I can hear her complaining about me in the back and she sends someone else out to take my money and give me the drink which she obviously did nothing but pour cold milk into because it was cold but I wasn't about to send it back. I don't think I need to go to this Tim Horton's again. I know they don't get paid well (and I did plan to tip) but there was no need for this level of rudeness when all I did was say I asked for the large but that's fine I'll take the medium.
I get home and start updating my monthly reading thing, sitting my task chair. I suddenly have pain in my neck and I look at the monitor and see it's 6:15pm. How can that be? It's 8 in the morning. I look down and think WHY am I in yesterday's clothes and how did I even get into the computer room. It takes a good two minutes before I realize, it's still the same day and I fell asleep sitting up for an hour. I'm just glad I was home before my brain turned off like someone flipped a switch.
And now that trip to Mexico might be back on which means I'll have to come back down here if we go. I can't say how much I do not want to go until March.
I have the weekly fandom recs
Cat’s Quill Harry Potter
A Night In (This Is Home) Hazbin Hotel
The Glasshouse Star Trek: Voyager
Boil, Boil (And Nothing But Trouble) Batman
Wound Horizon
[ART] Time to go Deadpool/X-Men
[ART] Venom re-do Venom
Monsters The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Dealing with Memories Harry Potter
Revenge of the Sentient Cheese Hazbin Hotel
Bittersweet Symphony The Owl House
Night Of The Harvester Torchwood
Art: Winged 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei沙海 | Tomb of the Sea (TV)
suk-tauk Star Trek: Voyager
Once Upon a Graveyard The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Investor Interruptus Hazbin Hotel
Someone You Can Bet On Hazbin Hotel
Once More, With Clarity Hazbin Hotel
Cover Art for The Dawn Star Firefly
[ART] Who wants to go first? X-Men
Take the A Train The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Five Funerals and a Wedding Teen Wolf
Doing It Again Hazbin Hotel
When You Have A Lot Of Birthdays, You Are Old Hazbin Hotel
Awakening Call of Duty
Something Wicked The Trixie Belden Mysteries/The Three Investigators
O Come All Ye Faithful Prodigal Son
The Night of the Vogelscheuche Grimm
The Night of the Spider The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
If I Could Give You A Second Chance Hazbin Hotel
Visiting the Hale Vault Teen Wolf
All For A Pair Hazbin Hotel
Morning Moose PatrolStargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis/Marvel Cinematic Universe
My uncle came through the surgery okay so that's good.
As for me, last time it took over an hour to get to Chillicothe (should take 40 minutes) so I gave myself an hour and fifteen minutes (after not sleeping all night) I get there in 40 minutes...so I go to TJ Maxx. Keep in mind it's 1030 on a Friday. I find a few things, go to pay and it looks like Black Friday (And I had to hear Mariah Carey singing Christmas songs) No lie the line up maze they have at check out is filled and lined up outside it too, no less than 30 people. I don't need a half broken wooden tombstone and a wood spatula that badly. I put it back.
The Sports Med guy goes, yeah can you hang out and see the neurosurgeon today? YEs I can. Sports guy thinks that much of this is just the sheer amount of damage I did in that fall. Fair. He wants to start the cock'scomb hylaronic acid injections (fine). The neuro is the one who did my nerve conduction study. I'm friend's with his mother in law and taught his wife. He comes in and hugs me like I'm a family friend. (well he does know me from family parties)
He thinks as well this is a combo party. Usually neurogenic claudication is from stenosis which I don't really have and the foramina narrowing/pinched nerve is on the left. He agrees that the claudication symptoms could be from the nerve damage in the knee BUT also I have femoral acetabular impingement syndrome, a cracked labrum plus the spondylosis. We could do a spinal stimulator (Nope, I'm not in that much pain) or radio ablation of the nerves going to the facets of the spine and deal with the arthritis that way. Yes we can do that. He think it stands a chance because exercise makes it better. I'm fine walking (backwise that is) it's sitting/standing still hurts and has done since I was a surgeon (leading us to think the impingement syndrome is in play) so we're going to start with a nerve block which if that works the ablation will too. Might have to try epidural steroids too (let's hold off on putting steroids into my CSF)
We have a treatment plan but at the end of the day there is no cure (i knew this) so welcome to yet another chronic illness to go in the bag with all my others.
But this has now run until 130 in the afternoon. My work webinar has started. By the time i get home it'll be over so I'm like screw it. Let's go do something so I go into a part of the historic district of Chillicothe (and got yelled at by some fucker who made a right turn on red and nearly hit me as I'm going through the intersection) I go to Grandview Cemetery. It did have a grand view and some things I've not seen before, like modern day crypts, mini ones but there. I saw an older than the graveyard family graveyard in its center (THe Felix Renick family. I looked him up, a pioneer into Ohio when it was still Native territory who was an 'Indian Hunter' who came to regret it later in life saying there was a huge debt that couldn't be paid) I saw some other weird names (where I wrote them down I don't know) but my favorite last name was Quick Valentine and some poor bastard I thought was named Donald Duck. Nope. It was Dick. Donald Dick which is somehow worse.
I go to Tim Horton for a caramel apple latte, large, hot with a splenda in it. They ask Can you repeat the size and I say large. I pull up to the window and the young woman there has napkins in her hand and a medium drink. I said is that a large. She glares at me, 'you ordered a medium.' No, I didn't. You asked me to repeat it so I said twice I wanted a large. She slams the napkins down and storms off. I call after her, it's fine, I'll take the medium. She stalks back over. 'It wasn't me that took your order,' as storms back off (she was wearing the drive thru head set so I assumed it was her) I can hear her complaining about me in the back and she sends someone else out to take my money and give me the drink which she obviously did nothing but pour cold milk into because it was cold but I wasn't about to send it back. I don't think I need to go to this Tim Horton's again. I know they don't get paid well (and I did plan to tip) but there was no need for this level of rudeness when all I did was say I asked for the large but that's fine I'll take the medium.
I get home and start updating my monthly reading thing, sitting my task chair. I suddenly have pain in my neck and I look at the monitor and see it's 6:15pm. How can that be? It's 8 in the morning. I look down and think WHY am I in yesterday's clothes and how did I even get into the computer room. It takes a good two minutes before I realize, it's still the same day and I fell asleep sitting up for an hour. I'm just glad I was home before my brain turned off like someone flipped a switch.
And now that trip to Mexico might be back on which means I'll have to come back down here if we go. I can't say how much I do not want to go until March.
I have the weekly fandom recs
Cat’s Quill Harry Potter
A Night In (This Is Home) Hazbin Hotel
The Glasshouse Star Trek: Voyager
Boil, Boil (And Nothing But Trouble) Batman
Wound Horizon
[ART] Time to go Deadpool/X-Men
[ART] Venom re-do Venom
Monsters The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Dealing with Memories Harry Potter
Revenge of the Sentient Cheese Hazbin Hotel
Bittersweet Symphony The Owl House
Night Of The Harvester Torchwood
Art: Winged 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei沙海 | Tomb of the Sea (TV)
suk-tauk Star Trek: Voyager
Once Upon a Graveyard The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Investor Interruptus Hazbin Hotel
Someone You Can Bet On Hazbin Hotel
Once More, With Clarity Hazbin Hotel
Cover Art for The Dawn Star Firefly
[ART] Who wants to go first? X-Men
Take the A Train The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Five Funerals and a Wedding Teen Wolf
Doing It Again Hazbin Hotel
When You Have A Lot Of Birthdays, You Are Old Hazbin Hotel
Awakening Call of Duty
Something Wicked The Trixie Belden Mysteries/The Three Investigators
O Come All Ye Faithful Prodigal Son
The Night of the Vogelscheuche Grimm
The Night of the Spider The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
If I Could Give You A Second Chance Hazbin Hotel
Visiting the Hale Vault Teen Wolf
All For A Pair Hazbin Hotel
Morning Moose PatrolStargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis/Marvel Cinematic Universe