That’s what Gabapentin gives me.
At least, that’s my feeling about it at the moment. It doesn’t kill the pain I feel when I stand and/or walk entirely – nor would I want it to, that pain is telling me something important – but it does dull the pain enough to make it more bearable.
And that’s exactly what I asked for, so – score one for Doc Chao.
I took a gabba right before heading out to Wound Care and it helped a fair bit. My legs still hurt but it was somewhat muted and the pain did not radiate as deep into the rest of my leg tissues as before.
There was a SNAFU with my appointment Of course. When I arrived I found the door to the clinic was locked. So I did what the sign in front of me said and waved my hand in front of the sensor. No dice. Waddy fug?
Then some dude on the way out let me in, but told me I was *supposed* to press some button I had not seen and wait to be let in.
Whatever. There was absolutely nobody in the reception area (because it’s Canada Day, duh!) so I just headed straight to the waiting area.
And waited. And waited.
Eventually I got tired of waiting and decided to go peek into the Clinic to see if anyone was even in there.
The irrational thought that I had been booked for an appointment on a day when nobody would be there compelled me to do this.
There I met my nurse of the day, who had been waiting for ME.
Turns out that because I had not pressed the right magic button to be let in, she had no idea I was there. Derp.
Normally they just check the waiting area but she was operating on the fully reasonable assumption that nobody would get in without her buzzing them in first.
What a silly little mess. Ah well, no harm done.
Still looking forward to my scan tonight. I wonder what CT unit I will get?
They have two, and they are both awesome in their own way.
There is the older one, which is awesomely 60’s science fiction in style. That’s the one with the spinning magnetic ring that surrounds you and makes soft whirring and grinding sounds like you’re inside a giant hard drive.
So that’s what I love about that one, and that’s the one I have experienced most often. It’s located right off the emergency room, so it’s the one ER patients go into.
The other is awesome because it’s a combination X-ray, ultrasound, AND CT scanner.
So it’s basically the copier/printer/fax of the medical imaging world.
Only been in it once but man, was it cool.
So hopefully tonight’s scan will shed some light on what the hell is happening to my legs to make them so damned weak.
It would be very nice to be able to walk normally again.
I swear, I will never take being ambulatory for granted again.
When I get better, I am damned well going to exercise.
Just little walks at first, but eventually I am going to be able to walk wherever I want to go without it even being a thing.
Heck, I might even take up hiking.
Can you imagine that?
More after the break.
Oh the decadence!
Ordered more Pizza Slut tonight.
Because that’s just the kind of devil-may-care Sybarite I am.
Joe was nice enough to pay the dude (with my money) and tote it to me, saving me a painful trip to the door and back.
Thank you so much Joe.
Just to mix it up. my pizza’s all crazy tonight. It’s got pesto and raw tomato chunks!
Because the edge is the only place I want to be, baby
It’s pretty good. Dude from the Hut called me to ask if I wanted just pesto sauce, or pesto on top of the usual tomato sauce.
I chose the latter. Because I’m crazy.
Holy crap does Billy Joel look sleazy in that video.
I wouldn’t leave him alone with my pets.
I am pretty sure that as a child of the Seventies, I absorbed the information to stay the hell away from dudes who look like that via cultural osmosis.
I mean, he could be the villain in a “Stranger Danger!” PSA and they wouldn’t even have to stop filming. Just keep rolling and have him say something about having puppies in his van and boom, millions of kids will be safer for his effort.
Now where was I.
Well the scan is soon. Too soon…. I honestly wonder if I should have waited to eat, seeing as there is little chance I will finish this half of the blogging before I have to get dressed and leave for the scan.
But whatever. If I end up having to finish up that last little bit when I get back from having my spine scanned, so be it.
Quick review : pesto + pizza sauce + tomato + pineapple + Italian sausage adds up to a pretty dang good pizza
I have been wanting to see if I liked raw tomato on pizza for a while, because while I do not like raw tomato itself, I thought it might be keen on a pizza.
And it is! Being cooked on the pizza is enough to make it not raw to my tastes buds, and all that lovely zesty flavour is still there.
My dislike of raw tomato is mostly a texture thing.
Today’s been relatively OK. The heat has not been bothering me, thank the stars. Probably because I have been hydrating aggressively.
That might be the cause of my sodium deficiency : drinking too much water. That’s what Doctor Chao says anyhow.
But I am having trouble accepting it because I refuse to believe that there is such a thing as drinking too much water. I was raised to think that the only way to drink too much water is if you drink so much it ruptures your stomach and that most people do not drink nearly enough water to be healthy,
So I’m gonna go with that for now.
And I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.