My beautiful, cute, new
Circa journal arrived today, while I was at the doctor's office over my horrible back problems (more on that later). The good news is that my notebook is perfect and lovely. I even realized that I could tear some pages out of the flower journal, trim the pages, punch them, and add them to the new notebook.
I remembered that I had a rolodex punch from my days at Daedalus. I dug it out, and it works perfectly for adding pages. Okay, so I have to punch it 7 times, but I already own it. I wanted to keep the spending very low until I was certain that this is what I want to do. I may eventually get a punch from Levenger's, but this seems quite perfect for now. Now I just need to transfer information over from the old notebook so that I don't have to carry them both around.
On to the doctor. I did something to my back. AGAIN. I don't remember doing anything. In fact, I've been overly careful, and while my sister was here, I didn't lift anything. She carried all the stuff that needed carrying. Whatever it is, it came on very fast this time. I feel like someone is poking a fork into my lower back and twirling it so the muscles knot around it and tighten (like you'd twirl spaghetti on that fork).
I couldn't even get to the office till 1, and within 30 minutes, I knew I was in deep trouble. I called the doctor, and through some miracle, they had an opening at 1:40. So I went off to the doctor, who gave me prescriptions for Flexeril and Darvocet. She also said I had to go get x-rays and do physical therapy. :( The x-ray tech was very nice, and while it was very, very uncomfortable, it wasn't as bad as the last time. No word on the x-rays till the doctor sees them though.
After all that, I went back to the office. Partly because I knew that if I went home, I would just go back to bed, but also because I knew that my notebook was out for delivery, and I wanted it. I didn't last till 6:30 though. I left around 5. It just hurts too much, and I couldn't think. Took a nap when I got home, then I got up to play with my cute notebook.
I sure hope that the drugs start working soon. It's hard to walk around in the house. How on earth can I walk around the office? It's really painful and hard :(
Posted Friday, 24-Aug-2007 17:08:28 PDT
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