I have an actual snow day! I am sort of half assed working, though, because I am so behind and it is perfect to catch up on emails and all the small things that are overwhelming me. Also trying to gear myself up to go next door for coffee and to shovel some.
I have to go to work tomorrow no matter what, because I need to refill a prescription and that is where my pharmacy is. There isn't really one I can get to near me in all this snow anyway. And I have a Doctor's appointment tomorrow, which is a pain because I don't drive and it is not on the bus route. I usually take a cab there, and then walk back to work, but it is 2 miles on a road without sidewalks, so that doesn't seem like a good idea. And cabs are very unreliable in Rochester. They pretty much take snow days too!
Regarding the podcast- there are two Jon Favreaus, right?
Oh yeah, Pod Save America was just recommended to me. I said I was full up on white guys (no offense!), but I'll probably check it out some time.
One of them is gay if that helps.
Went to back doctor. Definitely sciatica, but it could be caused by the herniated disk that was diagnosed years ago, or a whole new one! But it doesn't really matter. Two prescriptions and physical therapy.
The important thing? NO MRI. At least not unless nothing gets better. But still, NO MRI RIGHT NOW. Hooray.
Ugh, Dana. But yay for diagnosis and NO MRI!
One of them is gay if that helps.
Haha! I think the other recommender might have mentioned that.
Two prescriptions and physical therapy.
When horrible sciatica reared its ugly head a few years after my back surgery, physical therapy helped enormously. Like some kind of weird witch doctor shit.
Though witch doctors are not covered under our insurance.
physical therapy helped enormously.
Oh, good. Scheduling physical therapy just means I don't have to carve out extra time in the day to exercise.
We had the inevitable talk about weight and how that puts pressure on the musculoskeletal system, and then he asked about my numbers, and I told him that my blood pressure and blood sugar were always great, and that my cholesterol was borderline. (The nurse literally said that my blood pressure couldn't be better.)
And he didn't use the word "genetics", but said that some people just seemed to handle excess weight better. So hopefully the medical profession will stay on this route, instead of the "all of your problems are because you're fat" route.
