Extra Innings

I have been in overdrive all day. I feel like this is the first minute I've had to just be by myself and not have to do anything. And the day started out so well.

Uh, yeah. Started with the mammogram, which went into extra innings. Just go back for two more shots. Now go back for four more. Hey, know what? Forget the mammogram, we're going to ultrasound those suckers! This is a great place that we go to, and the mammograms themselves are actually painless. The ultrasound, not so much. I was in there for so long that my sister was getting nervous out in the waiting room. (An easy year for her, no retakes, all fine.) And all is fine with me, too. The radiologist is being extremely cautious and is checking and rechecking some calcifications that I've had for maybe twenty years and that have been dismissed as nothing by any number of doctors, but hey, she's doing her job. She wants me to have 'em MRI'd, too, so I'll do that over Christmas vacation. Boy, everything hurts; I kept having to turn and change position, arms up, arms down. So that was fun.

Then lunch, then to the internist, where they did a bone density test WHICH IS MY FAVORITE MEDICAL TEST EVER!! This is like Star Trek medicine. You lie on a comfortable table, fully dressed, and a monitor with a light passes over you, up and back. And you're done. It even makes noises like a gentle little video game. And my bone density is, amazingly, fine, but the doctor says that may change once I'm off the lady meds for good.

And in other news, yes, I have a stomach virus, which she says is killing off the good bacteria in my gut. Yay! Anyway, she says I need to drink more water and also take acidophilus, which is good gut bacteria in a capsule. I expect to make a total recovery by tomorrow. And yes, I have tendonitis. So no news here, really, except that I'm actually healthy, despite feeling like crap. Good, I suppose.

Came home in the light snow, where the kid is still kvetching on the couch. This is just the way she is, always has been. I appreciate the suggestion to just let her be, but this is just not the dynamic we've developed over the last 23+ years. (She is very nice to me when I'm sick, btw.) Even so, her going up to her room a half hour ago is a bit of relief for me. Not that I'm always jumping up and doing things for her, I'm not; but she sits two feet behind me looking like death warmed over, so that's hard to ignore.

My food arrived today, in a huge box (which she took in while I was at the doctor's) and it took me forever to sort it all out, check against the packing slip and my order, and so on. Part of the problem was that it came with a free week of food, none of which I got to select, so there's all this stuff that I have no interest in eating, and I had to put that aside, repack it, and get it ready to send back for exchange. I'm still not starting until Monday, since I don't have all the salad and other stuff you have to have with it, but I think I will take one of the lunches with me tomorrow. I hope it's good, because otherwise I'm in big trouble.

And that's it. I am just spent. Looooong day.


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