fantastic_jackie: (Boogie)
The asthma's gone!

Well, not gone, but definitely lessened significantly. Also, physical therapy was far less painful today: thank you prednisone! :D

I finally get to go to work today. I'm sure I'll be wondering later on why I'm excited about this: I'll try to keep my boredom over the past 1.5 weeks in perspective.

Obviously, as a registered representative in the financial sector, I'll be dealing with a lot of Debt Downgrade talk today, and I have a quick question for y'all if you'd be so kind to fill it out. I'm ONLY looking for a general measurement of perception - what you've heard or haven't and how you feel about it. I know the vast majority of y'all don't dabble into politics as much as I do, which is why I'm asking y'all.

Namely for work purposes, I'm just curious about the general feeling out there based on news coverage out of curiosity's sake.

[Poll #1768116]

Y'all probably have a good idea of what my opinion is, but that may be because I'm so entrenched in watching this stuff play out. :) People will be asking me a lot of questions today about it, so this kind of random information - poll posted in a few places, btw - will help me gain some more generic perspective. So THANK YOU if you answer the poll. If you'd like to comment in more detail, feel free; y'all should know that I will NOT bite your heads off. ;)

I've recently become more involved in Facebook: did you know it's MUCH easier to keep track of from your iPhone/Android? I still much prefer LJ - and all y'all on my friends list - to Facebook, but it has kept me midly entertained. I've been playing a lot of Words with Friends, and apparently I'm pretty good at it. Either that, or I just have REALLY good luck. lol
fantastic_jackie: (Disney - Dug)
So the verdict is in: I probably need surgery.

I went this morning after everything got cancelled Wednesday. (Doc had an emergency.) They took x-rays of my hands to make sure I have no arthritis. Then the doctor did a physical exam of my hands.

After I explained my long history of trial and treatments, he said I'd tried everything else. Which I knew.

So he ordered a nerve exam, sending my information to a neurologist. Which I also knew would happen and deeply dread: they stick needles into your arms and send jolts of electricity through your nerves to map what happens. I am not looking forward to this.

This is a way to test positive that it is indeed the nerve in my carpal tunnels that are causing the issues. If it comes back positive, then the surgery will be a roughly 10 minute procedure: he'll open my wrists and cut the tissue around my nerves so they don't apply that pressure when they swell from simple usage.

...

All I have to say is that if it comes to that and my company refuses to give me time off, I'm soooo quitting. >.>

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