cabbitzilla

Eleven doctor and therapy appointments in five days. I'm not sure what I did to deserve that kind of beating, but I survived it, at least. I just wish the results had been a bit more on the positive side; there were some good moments, but the overall wasn't very nice.

Good Points:

I have a new therapist, at long last. Her name is Stephanie, and she seems thus far to be immune to the Omni Bullshit Threshold problem that's plagued the last three. Her last gig was federal government, which means she's accustomed to it.
After a truly frightening upward spike a couple months back, my blood pressure is proving to again be stable and good. I'm the healthiest overweight, crippled, and chain smoking cabbit in all of cabbit history.

Bad Points:

Three months of hard push in physical therapy down the pipes and useless? Why? Next point...
The knee will require surgery to repair. The ACL (ever wonder what that stands for? Anterior Cruciate Ligament) is torn completely through, there're several mediscus, and severely abused inner and outer ligaments. The problem seems to be that the forward musculature in my calf and thigh are damned determined to pull the knee apart whenever weight comes off it, hence to frequent (chronic) relapses.
My stress levels have been through the roof, which has kicked the psoriasis back into hyperdrive. Hands, feet, elbows, and yes, knees. This is so much fun. Crippled and bleeding.
The clusterfsck that is Apple's announced abandonment of PPC architecture. I'll not pound this one, as others have done it to death... but it sucks, and has a goodly chance of killing any chance I had of getting the upgraded CPU for this G3. Not pleased, I am. Nooo. Mmm. [/yoda]

( To give a taste, this was yesterday morning... )

Bumpy, to say the least. But it's Friday, which counts for something. No phys therapy appointments next week, one appointment with Stephanie, and one appointment with Dr Nwaneri to try and get a surgery date locked down. A much lighter load.

On a final note... how many of you (that're still reading, that is) knew they could use tendon tissue from cadavers to rebuild an ACL injury? I may end up the world's only undead cabbit...

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