Archive for March, 2007
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26
Mar
2007
Progress
My knee is 80% better today.
I talked to the doctor today – she called – what kind of weird parallel universe am I in??
She said Read the rest of this entry »
23
Mar
2007
R E L I E F
So, I saw the doctor today. Not my regular doctor who is sick but another in his practice. I was telling my Mom last night (appointment was yesterday but rescheduled because doctor was out) that I was kind of glad that I was seeing another doctor. Read the rest of this entry »
22
Mar
2007
The Dead Sexy Penguins
Dead Sexy Penguins
Now there’s a blog title that will confuse a lot of people…
Okay, if you realllly desire to, you can click for a far larger version. I uploaded the full size for this since I figured others on the trip might want, you know, a poster to remember us all by!
At our last stop in Dunkeld.
Awesome group to travel with!
Standing (left to right) Matt, Rachel, Mark (me), Mallory, Kylie, Bronwyn, Scott, Sandie, Alex, Alison, Katherine, Conor, Steve, Max, Rodian
Kneeling (left to right): Rachel, Megan, Maria, Alison
Taken by Rab, Tour Guide Extraordinaire
I have a couple more days of Scotland photos to go… but it’s wrapping up fast…
19
Mar
2007
Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah
First for just an FYI, in case you haven’t noticed, I’m selling prints of some of my shots at Imagekind, a print on demand service. These are nice prints and you can get them professionally matted and framed by the same service.
Feel free to spread the word. If there are shots you’ve seen here that you are seriously interested in but I haven’t put up prints for sale, let me know.
Meanwhile life is life. The knee has not acted up badly but it continues to aggravate. After three weeks on the pain medicine, my poor stomach could take no more. I should have known this would happen as I’ve had this reaction from mere aspirin before. I took a few days off wondering how my knee would do without it. To my happy surprise, it never returned to the level where I couldn’t climb stairs, which gives me some hope, but it also was not 100% better and by Friday last week, the knee pain was enough I decided to try over the counter… yep, you guessed it stomach howling again. So, I called the doctor today and moved up my first of April appointment to this week. Time to see if I can go ahead and get moved on to see a specialist and get an MRI or whatever is necessary to see what we can do about this. Meds are not the answer…
On a happer note, Roger Clyne and The Peacemakers have a new album coming out this week. Being a fan, I of course pre-ordered. Now, the album doesn’t come out until Thursday, so I figured, I’d see it early next week. Oh no, surprise, showed up in my mailbox today. As if the world knows when you’ve been kicked around enough to make it up a little! Yayy!!
And they also come here in late April. Of course a weeknight. We’ve been lucky enough to have one Friday night in years in the ATL, but I still plan to be down front, as usual, bouncing and hopping, maybe crying when my knee snaps, but damn, I’m looking forward to it!
1
Mar
2007
Not that I Needed This
Saw the doctor today for my follow-up on the knee problem.
And…
Arthritis… or rather the beginnings of arthritis… possibly caused by some sort of injury to my knee earlier in life. I think I may remember it. I’m not the most graceful person on earth, so lord knows I could have banged my knees a dozen times in a given year of childhood, but I do remember somewhere around 6th grade running flat out, tripping, and ending up with a black and blue bruise that lasted a week… on this knee…
Now, compared to the hundred horrible scenarios my imagination had cooked up, this was one of the more benign diagnoses. But at the same time, it’s not so simple. Arthritis – at 35? I could have 30, 40, 50 years more of my life… with arthritis? Not amused… And I think of all the things I want to do, the places I want to see, and I wonder if this is a sign…
For now, I stay on the medicine, which is helping. The pain is gone, but my knee feels… I don’t know… unsteady? I don’t know how to describe it, and I’m even willing to believe it’s just based on my own uncertainty – i.e. pscyhological… I go back in a month for another look. If there’s no improvement, next is a referral to an orthopedist and an MRI to see what they can do for me. When the doctor was telling me that I was alarmed. Then I called home to tell what I found out. Ironically, my Mom had suggested arthritis (her sister had arthritis at my age). And that’s when it hit me how long I might have to live with this, and I’m open for whatever can be done… I’m not going to be hobbled the rest of my life…
You may return to your own drama now…
