I probably should know this one but it was new to me ( Read more... )

"Hey, but my song has the same note as in Ave Maria!"  Well, yeah, but it's still Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer. - CT ( Read more... )

 dagnabbit.

My company has blocked the LJ "friends" page from work.   I wonder if I could run it through tinyurl and trick the server.

Anyway, I'm alive.  Back at work, but still in the walking cast for another 3-4 weeks.     Feeling better overall, but still trying to get back in the swing of things.

AJ

Valium and Darvocet are interesting drugs.   I'm on the valium because after the surgery he put my leg in a cast.  I don't mind the cast because I know it is keeping me from moving the ankle and hurting it again.   Surgery was generally successful, he's going to take off the cast to check the wound dressing either tomorrow or Friday depending on ( Read more... )

The good news is I'm not completely crazy or irrational like I thought I was.   The ankle was supposed to be getting better.  Last week the doc gave me permission to drive again.  I drove a couple of short trips, but considering how stir crazy I've been, I wondered what was wrong with me that I didn't want to go anywhere or do anything extra on the ( Read more... )

 
Ok, so I got a 2nd opinion yesterday from my podiatrist.   I've been in pain for 3 weeks now.   While the ortho doc wasn't unhelpful, I figured talking to the podatrist couldn't hurt.  I've trusted him with my feet before, he's the one that did the bone spur surgery last year.

This podiatrist does ultrasounds, which he finds extremely helpful for ( Read more... )

Steve got a major promotion today, to both of our shock.    He is now the acting IDOT materials supervisor of South Cook and Will counties.    The previous supervisor just left for private industry.   He will be overseeing 300-400 million of construction this construction season.  While they will put the position out for bids, it is likely he will ( Read more... )

So, after a quite a bit of research on "loose joints"  it is almost certain that I have "Joint Hypermobility Syndrome" that is also sometimes called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Type III.   It turns out that it is genetic.  Not necessarily directly inherited from one parent, but normally a combination of questionable genes from both parents.  The thing ( Read more... )

 http://www.cardigancorgis.com/NS2008/crez08.asp

Don't know who is going to show him for Best of Breed, but oh well.

AJ

So, back from the orthopedic doc.    He saw what the hospital radiologist saw on the x-rays, and asked for more from his on-site lab, to see other angles.   Anyway, after the next set of x-rays, he decided that it wasn't broken, I'd just popped a bunch of ligaments.   It might have been better if it *was* broken, I might actually get over it faster ( Read more... )