cornerofmadness

when the neurologist says I'm sorry and I feel so bad for you. How are you doing this? I'm like it's fine, I already know I have arthritis and diabetic neuropathy and I suspect I have a radiculopathy on the left, spinal stenosis and I severed the nerves in my right leg.

Well you're right. NONE of the nerves work below my knee on the right. none of them. Thank god it's just sensory and not motor. I have stenosis. I have the radiculopathy. I also have a bad disk l4-l5.

So she's like what do you want for pain? Um nothing. Thanks. If you think this is painful, you literally have no idea what the rest of my body is like. This is nothing. Give me some PT in January and it's all good. Just tell me do I have a shot to slow down the nerve death progression. Well I can't take lyrica/neurontin (and they're not great drugs. I almost never prescribed them myself.) But really it's not particularly painful, more numb than anything.

Tomorrow I see the ortho for my hip which actually does hurt. She wants an update on that. No problem. Really the only big pain I have is over my sacrum from sitting so much. My students are like sit down we'll get it. You don't understand. Sitting is the only thing that hurts. I'm fine if I'm up and moving. Movement is medicine in its own way. It improves the fit of the cartilage and decreases the arthritis pain, the more you sit the worse it'll get, the cartilage literally disintegrates faster Hell that was on your test a couple weeks ago...

SHockingly they did stay for the lab review for next weeks practical. Well about 6 students per class. I SHOULD have had 40 students today. 12 showed up. I had one miss a different class but was in another class today so when she tells me she was ill and that's why she didn't turn her paper in, that ain't flying.

Came home put up another chapter of my whumptober story only to find ch 4 had entirely disappeared. I'm pretty annoyed by that. You can find Digging Up Bones here.

She went the loss and gear too, as keenly as Grace. - The most incomprehensible thing I've typed in a while. I'm pretty sure I mean she felt the loss and fear....

SNippet - The astringent odor of cleaners made Alessia’s headache as they walked down the hall. Vivian stayed with them but detoured to the nurse’s station. Javier left them at the hospital, going back to do more research. That was far more important than them all sitting in Dan’s tiny room.

Alessia applied the brakes when she entered the room and Grace careened into her. Not only was Mr. Abadiano in the room so was Efrem, Dan’s older brother. Alessia recognized him from pictures. The beautiful older woman looked vaguely familiar but Alessia couldn’t place her.

“Oh, sorry we don’t mean to intrude,” Grace said.

“Nonsense. Come in. They won’t let you stay long,” Mr. Abadiano said, crossing over to them. He took their hands. “Are you two okay?”

“We’re fine, sir,” Alessia said.

“I heard you two banished the demon.” Efrem pushed off the wall he’d been standing against. “You kept it from killing Danilo. Thank you.”

“I wish we had been fast enough to stop it in the first place. Dan shouldn’t be in that bed,” Alessia replied.

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