The Latest

I have not written much because there's just not a lot to tell. Things move pretty slowly these days.

We are still tinkering with my meds a little bit, but nothing drastic there. I'm about ready to be done with the pain management folks. Except for the questionable effectiveness of one med I'm still taking, they aren't of very much use. Pretty much everything they've tried has been ineffective at best and they've even admitted that there's nothing else they can do for me. So why keep paying the office visit fees?

PT is the same ol' routine except insurance is being a pain. Accordingly, we are cutting back on the visits so we don't run up a HUGE bill we can't pay if they come down on the wrong side of that decision. If they keep pushing I may have to stop going entirely and run my own program based on what my PT folks have told me. We sure can't afford it on our own.

I got some new orthotics last week. The jury is out on their effectiveness. I think they have helped some, but certainly not as much as I had hoped. They probably need more adjusting some more. Of course, my feet were REAL beat up and feel differently from hour-to-hour and they hurt in different ways or are hard to walk on at different times and under different circumstances. So I'll play along, keep an open mind, give 'em a chance, and see how that goes.

I've not heard from work about going back in except that HR would just as soon I keep working from home as long as my bosses are cool with it. Up to now they've been talking about how they'd really like to see me back. I guess they're afraid either Julie or I will get hurt there or something and sue the daylights out of them. So I suppose I'm still working from home for the foreseeable future, but I've not heard a definitive answer from my bosses yet so we'll see. In the meantime we save oodles of gas money!

As many of you have already heard (and it's no secret) my company is being sold. We don't know yet to whom so we have no idea who will be kept or dumped when it happens. So come springtime I may be scrambling around looking for a job again. Soin the words of Rosanne Rasanadana, "If it's not one t'ing it's a-nudder!"

The biggest thing lately is that my right ankle and achilles area has flared up and has made it VERY difficult to walk. We've cut quite a bit out of my PT routine to try to rest it a bit, but it just isn't giving up this time. It's better than when it first acted up, but it is still causing plenty of difficulties. If I can just get past that, I think I'll be in pretty good shape to make some more progress.

I just realized how rambling and disjointed this is. Sorry about that!

Well, I guess that's about it for this time. Thanks, again, to everyone for your support!