Some teachers do sort of add that in, but not at student's request, I'm sure.

Yay Dr Esse! (or however your preferred nomenclature)

I have good news on the medical front. FINALLY got a diagnosis on my primary pain source, and it is a labral tear in my right hip. Took most of a year to figure it out, and now, knowing the source and what tends to cause it (ongoing wear and tear, mostly pivoting on a weight-bearing leg) I can look back and see that it has been coming on for years but each time it hurt after dancing or zumba I always thought I just needed to stretch better or avoid a certain move or step.

Anyways, YAY DIAGNOSIS! Have my first 'procedure' of ultrasound-assisted lidocaine/cortisone injection next week and fingers crossed it *might* knock out the pain for a week to a year or altogether. At the very least it'll make it clear whether the pain is coming from the damaged labrum.

Unrelated but discovered as part of all that imaging...my liver adenoma (or 'badenoma' as my friend refers to it) is officially in the hands of a surgeon now. Gonna wait another 4 months to see if cessation of BCP leads to any regression. Hoping it does get at least a little smaller because at the current size and location removing it (which is heavily recommended due to possibility of rupture or turning into a carcinoma at some later time) would also involve removing the gallbladder. While I know I don't *need* my gallbladder, it's never caused me any problems and just happens to be butted up against the adenoma. I much prefer to keep all my bits that have a purpose. Regression might get the adenoma to a size and position where it can be removed without taking the gall bladder with it. *fingers crossed*. Either way, it puts off dealing with surgical reality for another 3-4 months at the least and gives me some time to bank up comp time. Plus my med flex account resets June/July so I can put aside considerably more pre-tax $$ to cover what will be a ridiculously expensive procedure, even with "good" health insurance.

As for the ovarian cyst...just can't fit it into the picture ATM and I've had enough over the years just reabsorb that waiting and seeing is my primary plan. GYN appt on Friday will confirm whether it's still there/growing/shrinking/whatever. I'll think about it again then.

Your innards really need to start taking more care.

Yay for a diagnosis!

Yay for diagnosis! Here's to a positive prognosis!

erin,

I have had my gall bladder out (and a couple of others here). Unlike with my surgery, sounds like yours won't be laproscopic (sp?), sounds like you may have a longer recovery time?

That is something to consider as you weigh options.

Aside from that, the first several months post-no GP was an intestinal adventure. Still is, but not with the same frequency.

Ugh, yeah, intestinal adventures are not something I look forward to! Can't imagine any benefit of not having a gallbladder, since i've never had any gallstones (knocks on wood). Surgery is proposed as laprospcopic, with the possibility of having to go to open if...complications? Either way should be back to normal functioning within a wk (lap) or 2 wks (open) and either way up and walking next day.

erin, supposedly most of us have gallstones. it is whether they act up or not.

that's what a doctor told me. don't know if he is a quack.

laproscopic is really good. I didn't eat solid food for about a week afterward. I think their diet restrictions were pretty stupid, I would have preferred to eat other things.

I wonder what the advice is now.

Glad you have a diagnosis and I hope everything goes well.

I'm in NH for sales training and today had issues. I got in an argument with some during a role play exercise. He skipped a step to find out how a customer is going to use the product and what they want I pointed it out (although I did so badly) and he got defensive- I'm the expert not the customer I know what they want. It was frustrating because he just assumed based on 2 non specific comments.

Plus when we did my role play he was the customer but kept talking over me and correcting me. 2 more 8 hour days of this and on the last day the drive home.

I'm not good with not having plans. I don't know whether I'll have a new job next year or not, so I don't know whether I'm moving during the summer or staying here for another year. Which means I don't know whether I can sign up for summer classes. Whether I should be buying boxes and tape, or if I should get a coffee table that fits nicely into my current living room if I see one at a good price. Whether I can stock up on frozen food if it's on sale, or if I should be trying to eat through the stuff that's in my freezer. Should I be trying to digitize some of my current lessons plans, for teaching the same class again next year, or should I be reading through new books to see how they introduce totally different material? Exploring new places around here, or learning about a totally new city? I had a typed schedule for my trip to France several weeks before I left. This kind of uncertainty does not sit will with me, and it's just making me antsy.