Friday - My Favorite Weekday :-)

I am sooooooooooooo sleepy this morning.  I've actually tried to think of a place in this office where I could hide and go take a nap... but no place came to mind.  Which is actually very good; can you imagine the shame of being discovered... hiding and sleeping??  BAD.  Even worse than just being caught asleep at your desk (though I don't plan to do that, either).  If someone found another person asleep with their head on their desk, I imagine anyone's first response would be to make sure they were okay.  Because everyone here is professional and respectable... on different levels... but there's no one I would EXPECT to find snoozing and drooling on their desk.  My first reaction would be one of concern.



But finding someone balled up in the corner of some dark file room... there's no respect to be had for that.  Nope.



So I'm pushing through.  My Fitbit buzzes, urging me to walk at least 250 steps each hour, so that's one help.  Also, I have acquired a large cup of delicious Community Coffee... another plus.  I think I'll make it.  Might have to incorporate a few sets of burpees or situps.  Not planks, though... I can see myself dozing off while planking.  hahaha

These days, I am reading a book by Gabourey Sidibe.  She played Precious, played in some of American Horror Story, plus plenty other stuff; those are just the roles with which I am familiar. 
  I like the way she writes; like a journal, or like she is just talking to you as a friend.  It's made me want to write more, and to write more in that same way.  So that's from whence come these blog posts of late.  Just me chillin, sharing my thoughts.

Part of the reason I'm tired is that I got up extra-early this morning to go for fasting bloodwork.  Because, fasting... I figure I'll get that done early in the morning to save myself from too much hunger while awake.  I did good; didn't even have coffee at home this morning... then I took my handful (small handful) of morning meds.  Rats.  I wasn't sure if that would affect the bloodwork.  I did call the dr's office with the lab where I was going to have blood drawn.  Funny thing... the lab begins seeing patients for bloodwork at 6:45 a.m.  But the phones to the building as a whole are not active until 8 a.m.  So I said screw it and went and got a Smoothie.  $5 Friday, after all.  *grin*

OK, that's enough for now.  Have a great Friday!

Nicole

HELP; I'VE FALLEN AND NOBODY CAN TELL ME WHY!

Here is part of a rant I started earlier, for which I lost the steam before I was able to finish.  I was leading up to the fact that I am dizzy a LOT lately but am frustrated with going to and paying for doctor visits because I never get ANSWERS!  It is reeeeeeally frustrating.  So, might as well put to use these words I cranked out earlier.  Who knows; maybe someone will relate and not feel so alone in their struggle.  THE STRUGGLE IS REAL!!  hahaha...



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I am so tired of paying doctors and never being given a diagnosis.  Copay after copay, referral after referral to specialist after specialist... and, every time, coming away with basically nothing more than a, "Rie doan no, Raggy!"



It's frustrating.  And discouraging.

So, months ago, I had severe pain in my shoulder and down my arm.  Went to the doctor.  He named a few things it could have been and sent me to have an MRI of my neck.  MRI showed nothing outstanding.  The doctor had thought I probably had something wrong with a disk in my neck and would likely need surgery.  Nope.  Disks are fine, fine.  Though he said I do have a bunch of small holes in my vertebrae.  (What???  Okay, THAT's nothing to worry about!!)

Then I fell while running and had pain in my knee.  Went to the doctor who looked at it and said it was nothing major and that I could just wait it out.  But the pain persisted and then I noticed a bone in my lower leg poking out like a... poking out bone... so I asked the doctor about that and he referred me to the Bone and Joint Clinic.  They x-rayed my leg and saw nothing.  So they sent me on my way to a local hospital on another day for an MRI on my leg.  Went BACK to the Bone & Joint clinic AGAIN so the dr there could look at the MRI and tell me he  saw a mild strain to the end of my IT band.  I was instructed to take it easy for awhile, to go to physical therapy, then to come back in like 6 weeks.

My insurance costs a $35 copay to see my primary physician and $50 for each time I see a specialist.  So let's recap... for my knee... $35 to see my regular dr... $50 to the Bone & Joint Clinic... $50 to radiology at the BR General... $50 to see the Bone & Joint doctor AGAIN... which comes to a pretty $185.  THEN he wanted me to pay a copay 2-3 times a WEEK for physical therapy... THEN to pay ANOTHER $50 to come back to have him look at the same leg with his same eyes and tell me... what?

Nope.