Saw the ortho doctor on Thursday, got x-rays, was told that I didn't need to see them any more, to get an exercise and physical therapy program from my HMO, and that, in a year or so, my arm would be back to normal. Okay, so that last bit wasn't so hot, but basically its good. I have most of my range of motion back after cracking my humerus in my ( Read more... )

saw the orthopedist on Thursday. The humerus is definitely healing properly, no surgery will be needed. Physical therapy started ( Read more... )

While dashing across the street this afternoon I tripped and came down hard on my right shoulder. I spent the rest of the afternoon at GHC, where they sent the X-ray image over the network to a radiologist at UW (and how cool is that, this is something I saw at Internet2 some years ago, and now it’s running in my local HMO ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went in for cataract surgery on my left eye. A year ago January I had a trabeculectomy in that eye to lower the pressure; this January I had cataract surgery in my right eye. Yesterday's surgery was the last in the series, and I don't really expect to need anything else done till I hit my 60s, at which point the warranty on my ( Read more... )