The affair continues
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lumy12So! I saw my doctor today.
*happy sigh*
Now with less squeamish medical talk (sorry for that last post, peeps!).
I got stupid-nervous in the waiting room. Texted my nervousness to G who thinks this whole thing is just too funny :) And they made me wait half an hour after my appointment time. That's why going in the morning rocks, but I couldn't do that today thanks to having to work at 5:30.
They called me back and I handed over my "report card" to his assistant, who noted that I was all smiley and happy. Ha! I suppose I was a little too happy for this damn appointment. She looked at my hand and had me do some stuff and we discussed arm hair :) Hehe, she's cool. She said she "wanted the doctor to see me" -- the way she said it was like, he doesn't see everyone. Jeez, do people normally go to see him and not see him? I thought last time was a fluke. I mean, he's a specialist, it's not like going to any old doctor for a flu shot.
So I waited again and lo and behold, Dr. Hottie finally came to see me. And closed the door so we could be alone. ;) Heh. So uh... yeah, he's still hot. Damnit. This reminds me, I neglected to mention this in my last update -- I kinda sorta sent him a congratulations card the day after my last appointment. Even though my unofficial poll was split as to whether that was creepy or not. But I did it, felt kinda dumb after, then thought, eh, he won't remember by the time he sees me.
HE TOTALLY REMEMBERED. The first thing he did was thank me for the nice card! *facepalm* Did so few people send him one that he remembers mine so easily?Oh no, of course not, mine just made SUCH an impression on him! Because obviously he luuuuuuurves me. *cough*
I didn't get to ask him how he was finding fatherhood so far or anything. He kept things focused on me the entire time. (jeez, what nerve!) So he had me do some stuff and I asked if I was normal, and whined that the therapy people dodged that one by saying "everyone's different." Heh, he didn't actually say that, but he wasn't pleased with my lack of progress wrist-wise. He said he was really surprised at how awful it is, even. O.o My fist action was decent, though. Ring finger is droopy, which didn't surprise him too much cuz it's sharing the pinkie's workload. Interesting! Again, he gave me more technical explanations, complete with anatomy book illustrations, and I listened and understood but now the detail escapes me. So, time to get more aggressive in therapy (translation: increase the pain!) -- for one thing, I will be wearing a finger splint (dynamic-flexion-something? I suck at remembering medical terms) for an hour at a time, which I balked at at first but am okay with now because I've been assured it will be at a tension I can tolerate.
I asked him questions, made him smile and chuckle a few times ♥ and when things were wrapping up, I consulted my sticky note to make sure I'd remembered to ask everything. He teased me about the size of the sticky note and the fact that I kept adding tiny writing to the front instead of using the back. My defense was that I was afraid I'd forget to turn it over!
Next appointment (another 4 weeks away, boooo) I'm supposed to remind him to get Xrays of my wrist. Does that mean I should be seeing HIM and not just his lovely-but-not-the-doc assistant? I should think so, given that he was expecting things to be going faster.
He mentioned another type of surgery that could help, but said we'll do everything we can with therapy first. I honestly don't care about having another surgery if that will help me gain range of motion in that hand -- is that weird? I know lots of people who are like OH NOES ANYTHING BUT SURGERY. The thing I DO care about is having to pay for it. If worker's comp cuts me off for some reason, then that's it, I'm done -- I can type, and that was the most important thing to me. But so far both the doctor's office and the therapist's have said there's no way they would do that yet, not with all the work I had done. Whew!
So he gave me my note for work and thanked me AGAIN for the card -- that was soooo nice of me. a;skldjf;iljqoiyrghe;yabhsgimh/oidtyh/mked
Okay, I'm nice. If he only knew about my Exhibit A fantasy!
My "gimp hand" tag should have a corresponding "hot doc" tag. But nah, the love life one is fine ♥
Someday I will update about other things! Oh yes, it will happen! (but...sorry, next up will most likely be this weekend's to-do list :| which is hardly exciting) I hope this all makes sense, I'm about to faceplant in the keyboard. Really need to get some solid sleep for once this week.
*happy sigh*
Now with less squeamish medical talk (sorry for that last post, peeps!).
I got stupid-nervous in the waiting room. Texted my nervousness to G who thinks this whole thing is just too funny :) And they made me wait half an hour after my appointment time. That's why going in the morning rocks, but I couldn't do that today thanks to having to work at 5:30.
They called me back and I handed over my "report card" to his assistant, who noted that I was all smiley and happy. Ha! I suppose I was a little too happy for this damn appointment. She looked at my hand and had me do some stuff and we discussed arm hair :) Hehe, she's cool. She said she "wanted the doctor to see me" -- the way she said it was like, he doesn't see everyone. Jeez, do people normally go to see him and not see him? I thought last time was a fluke. I mean, he's a specialist, it's not like going to any old doctor for a flu shot.
So I waited again and lo and behold, Dr. Hottie finally came to see me. And closed the door so we could be alone. ;) Heh. So uh... yeah, he's still hot. Damnit. This reminds me, I neglected to mention this in my last update -- I kinda sorta sent him a congratulations card the day after my last appointment. Even though my unofficial poll was split as to whether that was creepy or not. But I did it, felt kinda dumb after, then thought, eh, he won't remember by the time he sees me.
HE TOTALLY REMEMBERED. The first thing he did was thank me for the nice card! *facepalm* Did so few people send him one that he remembers mine so easily?
I didn't get to ask him how he was finding fatherhood so far or anything. He kept things focused on me the entire time. (jeez, what nerve!) So he had me do some stuff and I asked if I was normal, and whined that the therapy people dodged that one by saying "everyone's different." Heh, he didn't actually say that, but he wasn't pleased with my lack of progress wrist-wise. He said he was really surprised at how awful it is, even. O.o My fist action was decent, though. Ring finger is droopy, which didn't surprise him too much cuz it's sharing the pinkie's workload. Interesting! Again, he gave me more technical explanations, complete with anatomy book illustrations, and I listened and understood but now the detail escapes me. So, time to get more aggressive in therapy (translation: increase the pain!) -- for one thing, I will be wearing a finger splint (dynamic-flexion-something? I suck at remembering medical terms) for an hour at a time, which I balked at at first but am okay with now because I've been assured it will be at a tension I can tolerate.
I asked him questions, made him smile and chuckle a few times ♥ and when things were wrapping up, I consulted my sticky note to make sure I'd remembered to ask everything. He teased me about the size of the sticky note and the fact that I kept adding tiny writing to the front instead of using the back. My defense was that I was afraid I'd forget to turn it over!
Next appointment (another 4 weeks away, boooo) I'm supposed to remind him to get Xrays of my wrist. Does that mean I should be seeing HIM and not just his lovely-but-not-the-doc assistant? I should think so, given that he was expecting things to be going faster.
He mentioned another type of surgery that could help, but said we'll do everything we can with therapy first. I honestly don't care about having another surgery if that will help me gain range of motion in that hand -- is that weird? I know lots of people who are like OH NOES ANYTHING BUT SURGERY. The thing I DO care about is having to pay for it. If worker's comp cuts me off for some reason, then that's it, I'm done -- I can type, and that was the most important thing to me. But so far both the doctor's office and the therapist's have said there's no way they would do that yet, not with all the work I had done. Whew!
So he gave me my note for work and thanked me AGAIN for the card -- that was soooo nice of me. a;skldjf;iljqoiyrghe;yabhsgimh/oidtyh/mked
Okay, I'm nice. If he only knew about my Exhibit A fantasy!
My "gimp hand" tag should have a corresponding "hot doc" tag. But nah, the love life one is fine ♥
Someday I will update about other things! Oh yes, it will happen! (but...sorry, next up will most likely be this weekend's to-do list :| which is hardly exciting) I hope this all makes sense, I'm about to faceplant in the keyboard. Really need to get some solid sleep for once this week.
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Date: 2009-07-09 05:26 am (UTC)Glad you got to see McDreamy. Haha
♥
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Date: 2009-07-09 11:22 am (UTC)**is confuzzled**
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Date: 2009-07-09 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-09 12:50 pm (UTC)Yeahhhhhhh... *dreams more*
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Date: 2009-07-09 05:47 am (UTC)Glad you're making progress on your
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Date: 2009-07-09 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-09 06:33 am (UTC)*goes to read previous post that I missed*
Good Gods, woman, that surgeon is SMOKIN'!!!!!!! *jealous*
And yay for progress!!!
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Date: 2009-07-09 12:55 pm (UTC)HE REALLY IS. HE'S HOTTER IN PERSON TOO.
Everyone I show his website to is like "Hmmmm, I think my hand hurts........." Heh, my boss really DOES have a hand problem, I keep bugging her to call him.
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Date: 2009-07-09 01:13 pm (UTC)And LOL.
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Date: 2009-07-09 06:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-09 12:57 pm (UTC)I do! IT'S HARD BEING ONE-HANDED.
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Date: 2009-07-09 03:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-09 07:45 pm (UTC)(yup, I'm still a dork who quotes Star Wars)
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Date: 2009-07-09 07:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-09 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-09 11:21 am (UTC)Sorry to hear that the wrist isn't progressing as quickly as Dr. Hottie would like. But, since that means you get to see Dr. Hottie again, I suppose that's not all bad news!
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Date: 2009-07-09 01:07 pm (UTC)They were on a sticky note because there was only 3 things on there at first. I kept squishing more stuff on. And I stuck it to the report card -- if I'd used a regular sheet of paper, I might have forgotten to pull it out completely, right? See, there's a method to my madness!
I suppose I could have paperclipped the two together. Bah.
Oh! But the paperclip might have come off in my purse, see? Yeah.
He was able to turn the wrist up completely in surgery as soon as he hacked off the offending bone (I kind of wonder HOW he did that though...must have been immediately after???). He did say there's "muscle memory" - and since it's been like this for 14 years it would take therapy. I said it did seem a little better and he said I was being generous. Ha! I AM A CHALLENGE TO HIM.
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Date: 2009-07-09 01:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-09 01:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-09 03:13 pm (UTC)We need to log.
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Date: 2009-07-09 10:28 pm (UTC)Yes, our characters do need to have a log together.
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Date: 2009-07-09 10:39 pm (UTC)I'll put it on my weekend to-do list, unless you start it before then!
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Date: 2009-07-09 10:42 pm (UTC)I guess I could start the shower log and just wait for you to respond.
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Date: 2009-07-09 10:48 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-07-09 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-07-09 11:03 pm (UTC)Hopefully you wont have to get another surgery.
<3
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Date: 2009-07-10 12:52 am (UTC)