Looks like it'll be surgery for me...
Jul. 20th, 2007 07:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rayvyn2k...went to the Ortho yesterday...
Or should I say I went to his office. He had emergency surgery so he wasn't there. We were there for THREE HOURS. Had regular X-rays, then waited...
...when the...I don't know, intern? resident? nurse? assistant? came in and looked me over--strength tests, flexibility etc, he said "Well, these things don't heal themselves" and compared the injury to a tear in fabric... unless you sew it back up it just keeps getting bigger.
The aggravating thing is that the Doctor himself has to see me before we can schedule the surgery AND apparently he's a bit of a sadist. He does not prescribe any pain meds before surgery because he believes it makes them less effective after.
Yes, that's correct. So, because I basically wasted yesterday afternoon NOT seeing the specialist, I now have to live on Aleeve or something like it until I can see him and then schedule the surgery--which could be up to two weeks.
That sucks big ol' donkey balls, because the only thing that's been keeping me sane and able to work has been the careful (and I do mean CAREFUL) application of the pain meds I currently have. I do not use them to get high, I take a half a Lortab with the muscle relaxer in the morning, then another dose at night.
Can someone please tell me how that small dose is going to build up a resistance to pain medication???
Anyway.
The new Harry Potter book gets here tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to it. I've been really fortunate that the LJs I read, the comms I visit and the websites I care about all have been spoiler-free. I will be going into the book with no knowledge of its mysteries--happily so. I'm a bit nervous because I do believe that my favorite character, Snape, will be the tragic anti-hero (please do not tell me if you know!! I don't want to know until I actually read it myself!) and I also believe that Harry will live.
In a couple of days, we'll see if I'm right about my "bold" (heh) predictions.
Or should I say I went to his office. He had emergency surgery so he wasn't there. We were there for THREE HOURS. Had regular X-rays, then waited...
...when the...I don't know, intern? resident? nurse? assistant? came in and looked me over--strength tests, flexibility etc, he said "Well, these things don't heal themselves" and compared the injury to a tear in fabric... unless you sew it back up it just keeps getting bigger.
The aggravating thing is that the Doctor himself has to see me before we can schedule the surgery AND apparently he's a bit of a sadist. He does not prescribe any pain meds before surgery because he believes it makes them less effective after.
Yes, that's correct. So, because I basically wasted yesterday afternoon NOT seeing the specialist, I now have to live on Aleeve or something like it until I can see him and then schedule the surgery--which could be up to two weeks.
That sucks big ol' donkey balls, because the only thing that's been keeping me sane and able to work has been the careful (and I do mean CAREFUL) application of the pain meds I currently have. I do not use them to get high, I take a half a Lortab with the muscle relaxer in the morning, then another dose at night.
Can someone please tell me how that small dose is going to build up a resistance to pain medication???
Anyway.
The new Harry Potter book gets here tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to it. I've been really fortunate that the LJs I read, the comms I visit and the websites I care about all have been spoiler-free. I will be going into the book with no knowledge of its mysteries--happily so. I'm a bit nervous because I do believe that my favorite character, Snape, will be the tragic anti-hero (please do not tell me if you know!! I don't want to know until I actually read it myself!) and I also believe that Harry will live.
In a couple of days, we'll see if I'm right about my "bold" (heh) predictions.
