not slipped but rather twisted vertabrae
that's the good news! the bad news, no quick, painless fix, but with a good osteopath & a few weeks I should be back to normal. the osteo spent close to an hour talking & examining it (unlike NHS doc) and then explained the difference between slipped & twisted and then moved it back into place. not instant solution, but it's been about 10 hours & i can say it is feeling better. tomorrow night i have an appt with a personal trainer at the gym so i'm sure not to injure myself more in this "getting better" time period.
on different notes
1) i'm still awaiting news from my cousin in dallas, tx who was suppose to give birth to a girl yesterday - fingers crossed the delay is just cause their side tracked with excitement!
2) went to see surveillance (movie) tonight & i will give it 2 thumbs down!
Labels: doctors, injuries, movies
The NHS must just love urine samples!
I'm back from doctor's office and he said he's going to refer me to a physiotherapist who then if needs be will refer me to orthopaedic doc . . . but first before they can do anything they need me to pee in a cup (since I'm changing my registration from N10 to NW5 and until I've done that they can't do anything for me) so tomorrow at 11.30am I'll do that to get this SLOW process going . . .
I'm back on the bandwagon of disliking national health care systems!!! When I got back to the office my coworker told me how when she went to the neurologist they only took her blood pressure & made her pee in a pot . . . how does that diagnosis "everything?" The poor lab techs who work in the NHS system must just be up to their eyeballs in pots of wee!
Also apparently I need a brain transplant cause I realised last night at 7pm that Patty & I were not going to make it to the theatre we'd booked since I thought it was tonight instead of last night, what a Muppet I can be sometimes . . . luckily the tickets only cost me £12.50 each!
Labels: doctors, healthcare, knee, stupidity, theatre
hmmm
thinking of things to write is kinda hard when I've done bugger all since I last posted.
I don't think I've told you about the annoyance of my credit card number being stolen & used, BUT the wonderful folks at Bank of America caught it & have cancelled that card & sent me a new one :)
I spent most of the weekend watching american football (Go Pats!!) Dan arrived on Saturday so I got to hang out with him as well, which is cool since I haven't seen him in about a year & he's getting married on Feb 17th to the wonderful Julie - congrats!!!
Other minor things I've had to do which have been kinda annoying is tracking down paperwork for my work permit - I need COPIES of my diploma from Norwich, I'm sure is packed safely away in one of the million boxes in my storage unit in upstate NY, so I'm leaving Friday to head up to find it - ugh that is a waste of gas, time & energy (to top it all off doesn't the weather have to become freezing cold when I need to search through boxes). Someone who shall remain nameless, who lives very near to the boxes is apparently unable to look through them for me, find it, scan it & email it to me, which annoys me, but I'm over it now.
Showed up to the doctor's today & apparently they were going to do blood work but didn't remind me to fast so now I have to go back next Wednesday - another minor annoyance in my lil world.
My friend Matt will be moving into his place a week from this Sunday (day after my big party!!) & I'm guessing I'll be invited to help him move & set up. Not too bad since I kinda like to set up kitchens & arrange furniture & I know that his friends will have to carry all the heavy stuff so I'll just sorta stand around & "bark orders", not really but it sounded good!
Okay, off to read my newest book,
London by Edward Rutherfurd, I'm only on page 32 but so far so good!!
Labels: books, credit cards, doctors, work permits
