It's Definitely Windsday Here in Arizona
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Good morning, my friends.
Freezing, Snow, Rain & Wind… Oh, My!
Weather here in my little corner of Arizona has been a cold mess.
Granted, it was all melted by noon. NerdKid saved the snowman and snowball ElderSpawn made him in the fridge. They’re still there.
Today is super windy.
Yesterday was rainy.
This is screwing with all my chronic conditions, and the migraine I’m nursing today is better than the big blow out one that I had yesterday. I’m not comfy, but eh, I don’t need to climb into bed and stop existing for a little while.
Little things, right?
More Shots and Insurance Nonsense
Tomorrow I go for the second set of test shots for my back before I can be approved for the Radio Frequency Ablation in March. Means I’m pretty much out of commission for the day, since I have a reaction to lidocaine. Not adverse, just… well, it makes me a little loopy.
When we were trying to figure out what almost killed me in 2017, I had to get a shunt inserted into an odd pouch of liquid attached to my bladder. In order to do this, I had to be awake for the procedure of insertion. They gave me lidocaine as a local anesthesia. I warned them that it made me loopy, but the staff laughed, as they had never heard of anyone else with that reaction. I don’t really remember much else from the procedure after they gave me the lidocaine, except for two things:
The doctor had to put me in and out of the CT machine to see where he was going with the tubing for the shunt, so he and I could both see the monitor next to me. One time when I came out, I distinctly remember saying, “Oh, you did a good job! You should put that picture on your fridge!”, much to the delight of the surrounding staff.
The second thing was not so fun: lidocaine does nothing when there is scar tissue in the way. I cried a lot for the two minutes it took to break through the scar tissue, but it didn’t hurt after it was in. Yay?
Our collective health is so bad that we are $156 away from meeting our $3k deductible. In February. How insane is that?
I hope you’re all feeling better than I am right now. *hugs*
New Resource
Isn’t it crazy how we find our people through the 1s and 0s of the internet?
Found this website when I was looking up information on Rejection Sensitivity Disorder for an article I’m writing for my Medium account. She’s very bright, yes, but there’s a lot of good information here, motivation without the toxic positivity. She’s got a lot of free resources you can download, too.
All right, I am off to finish some work, so I can rest tomorrow.
Much love,
Connie