Spidra, if your RSI is well diagonosed (meaning that you know approximately where the nerves are damaged (not neccesarily where the pain is) a physical therapist might help. While it would be better to do multiple visits a good physical therapist may be able to provide excercises that will help. If you explain that insurance is not paying and that this will be your only visit a good one might even provide both initial excercises and ways to raise the intensity as you improve. Also state law on insurance varies; so if you are currently insured the "no coverage for pre-existing conditions" thing may expire after a time depending on the law in your particular state.

Thanks, Typo. I'm uninsured right now. If I get this UC job, I may have somewhere to go. I have bilateral Thoracic Outlet Syndrome so I know exactly what's going on. I have to admit I'm also to blame for not being good enough about doing the stretches and exercises I already know to do.

I'd like to ask Mr. & Mrs. Colbert for Stephen's hand in marriage.

Well you will probably have to pay for RSI related stuff yourself during the first N months; even group insurance often (though not always) excludes pre-exisitng conditions. However stretche s can help a lot. The nice thing about getting them from a PT is that you might get some that give you immediate pain relief (as opposed to just long term). That is hell of an incentive to do them. Do your stretchs and you hurt less right away. If you can come up with the money for one PT session it may be worth it; but make it an excercise session not a PT - cause one PT session is temporary relief, but the right excercises can help reduce your pain forever.

My objectives for the afternoon are to clean out the fridge, and to find my tape measure.

I know where my tape measure is, Sue. Want to come borrow it?

You can borrow my tape measure if you come over and help me do some yardwork!

Perkins? have you gotten off the couch?

Sue, I also know where my tape measurer is, come on over and you can borrow it.

4 loads of laundry are in. Who would've guessed taht Sunday afternoon and the laundry room is EMPTY! YAY! bonus for me. My luck, she is good today.

Clothes packed up so far: wool skirts, turtlenecks, dark colored long-sleeved tees, flannel pjs.

I did! For at least 10 minutes, too. I'm even about to do so again.

No, really, I am.

2nd bag of clothes packed up: wool pants, wool suit jackets, heavy wool suits.

Now to go move laundry.