{"id":2439,"date":"2016-05-24T21:51:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T01:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2016-05-24T21:51:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T01:51:28","slug":"tuesday-is-the-new-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/tuesday-is-the-new-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday is the New Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"
Happy Thur… er Tuesday All!!!<\/div>\n
Well, hasn’t it just been a most eventful couple of weeks? It’s rhetorical … it has been.<\/div>\n
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Ok… where did we leave off?\u00a0 Ummmm…. waiting for surgery I do believe.\u00a0 So that was Friday the 13th.\u00a0 13 is lucky in Chinese Culture and we are sticking with that.<\/div>\n
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Let’s roll back to Monday before the surgery.\u00a0 After a long day at the office I go out to get in my car (scooter in scoot) and Rrrrrrrr nothing.\u00a0 Rrrrrrrrr nothing.\u00a0 Really!? So I call David & AAA in that order at 4:30pm.\u00a0 At 8 pm (NEVER EVER tell AAA you are in a safe location it bumps you to the bottom of the tow list) Ronaldo final comes to tow Ruby to the garage.\u00a0 Thank God for Chris Ann who came and kept me company and listened to my whine (we were are work so no wine!).\u00a0 It was the fuse panel. We had it replace.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Tuesday before surgery I work up with a huge nagging pain in my shoulder.\u00a0 I figured I had just slept wrong and it would go away.\u00a0 No biggie right?\u00a0 Wrong.\u00a0 But we will get there. So the rest of the work week was a bit difficult because of the pain which didn’t seem to be diminishing. We’ll get there.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Surgery day.\u00a0 Other than starting horribly early it went mostly well.\u00a0 The automatic BP cuff was on WAY too tight during surgery and left little marks on my arm.\u00a0 So I really made the surgery center nervous when I told them that.\u00a0 So I have finally lost my screws (giggle) and 6\/1 will be able to put weight back on my foot again.\u00a0 Yup, I’m back to scootering until Dr. Very Handsome is convinced the hole in my bone where the screw was is healing.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Moving on.\u00a0 The pain in my shoulder really didn’t abate so I went to the Quick Care by mom on the Sunday following surgery and had a fainting spell.\u00a0 Yup!\u00a0 I figured it was lack of food, pain and a hot flash all rolled into one. It was very exciting.\u00a0 But I had my very first (this is a year of 1st’s for me) EKG and it came out just perfect.\u00a0 And I got a prescription for muscle relaxers which did diddly squat.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Scootering forward to one week after my waking up in pain I went to my GP and she gave me something else that did diddly squat.\u00a0 And so I started taking 2 Advil every 2 hours.\u00a0 Yeah, I know. Shhhhhhhh. I’m not taking them anymore.\u00a0 And yes, I ate something with each and every dose.\u00a0 I’ve eaten more crackers in the last 2 weeks than I’ve eaten in the last 2 years.\u00a0 I was thinking of buying stock in Keebler!<\/span><\/div>\n
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So after the pain didn’t subside I got an appointment with Dr. To The Point last who just happens to be in the same practice as Dr. Very Handsome.\u00a0 So today I had a whole new round of X-Rays with my favorite X-Ray Tech Jess.\u00a0 Well I got the good\/bad news on my shoulder pain.\u00a0 It’s not my shoulder.\u00a0 It’s my vertebra. The disk between C4 & 5 is a degenerate.\u00a0 Oh wait… it’s degenerating. That’s it. So Dr. To The Point prescribed that steroid pack that you take a whole boat load of pills to 1 pill in a week.\u00a0 So looking on the bright side… it’s not a new condition. It’s been like that for a while.\u00a0 I irritated the nerve when I slept soundly on Monday (when my car let me down). And I did sleep. I didn’t move all night long.\u00a0 More good news.\u00a0 This isn’t going to happen again. (Well the doctor said might, but I’m not claiming that.) The other good news is the steroids seem to be working already and I’ve only had 1 dose.\u00a0 My elbow hurts, but it’s not that sharp, stabbing, please cut my arm off, pain.\u00a0 And same with my shoulder.
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Didn’t I just slam into 50 and trip right on over it? But that’s it. I’m done. No more illnesses for me.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Oh I forgot.\u00a0 Thursday a last week I finally did what I didn’t want to do.\u00a0 I tripped over my scooter and face planted in the office.\u00a0 I banged up both my knees (left one much worse than the right) put a huge bruise on my left hand and, well, thought I aggravated my shoulder. Which wasn’t the case.\u00a0 Talk about embarrassing.\u00a0 But I have the best co-workers! They all came running to make sure I wasn’t dead.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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So that is long and the long of it.\u00a0 Over all it’s not great news… but it’s not bad AND I’ve been able to type this whole e-mail without stopping or without much pain.\u00a0 My darling Beloved David has been wonderful.\u00a0 He keeps going to the doctor’s appointments with me and asking the questions I miss.\u00a0 My mother is a saint for putting up with my increasingly (and now decreasingly) crabby self.<\/span><\/div>\n
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And that campers is my last 2 weeks.\u00a0 Love to everyone!<\/span><\/div>\n
T<\/span><\/div>\n
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Happy Thur… er Tuesday All!!! Well, hasn’t it just been a most eventful couple of weeks? It’s rhetorical … it has been. Ok… where did we leave off?\u00a0 Ummmm…. waiting for surgery I do believe.\u00a0 So that was Friday the 13th.\u00a0 13 is lucky in Chinese Culture and we are sticking with that. Let’s roll …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[193,220],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-adventures-on-mill-road","7":"category-medical-adventures","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taciej.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}