Funny will probably be out of commission for a few days. I’m sick as a dog, having picked up some kind of enteritis to complement the unremitting hip pain. Mountains of work are incoming; I missed the deadline for the corporation’s annual report, a fiasco aggravated by the fact that the idiot Corporation Commission’s website is not accessible on a Mac and emits printable forms in a format readable only in IE, which I refuse to install because of its chronic security issues; and I haven’t done the course prep for the online magazine-writing course.
{sigh} My poor old dog. If I’d known how much pain that GerShep was in — the vet said virtually every bone in her body was arthritic — I’d have put her down a lot sooner than I did. Wish there was someone to extend the same favor to me.
LOL!! Speaking of IE, here’s a hilarious review of the program as it relates to Apple.
MacFanBoy, meet Allosaurus.
State of Arizona, meet the 21st Century.
Hope you get better soon! I’ve been so busy recently – working right through the weekeneds, 14 hour days.
Thanks! Hope you get through the crazy workload…remember, part of the reason the Old Bat is in this shape is from putting in all those 14-hour days, seven days a week. Over time, it’ll do ya in!
Get better Funny!
Get well soon. Your sharp wit and concise advice and wisdom are missed….
Oh I’m so sorry to hear you’re feeling so sick. If I can help with anything, you be sure to let me know, I’ll make some room on my plate for it.
I hope you get better soon! I find summers so busy, and being sick makes it so much harder to deal with. Poor puppy, but you had no way of knowing.
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I know you’ve had your go-around with doctors, but you first wrote about this back/hip pain issue over a month ago. Maybe there is something the doc can do (besides prescribe more meds that make you feel ill)?
From reading of your experiences with doctors, it seems that (sadly) they think older people should just get used to pain, and that it is expected. I know our joints start wearing down as we get older and muscles can’t recuperate as fast from trauma, but that’s no excuse for relegating an older person to the “just deal with it” pile! Grrr!
I *finally* went to a sports medicine doctor this week about the pain in my left foot. I’ve started physical therapy to work on it, too, and I’m determined to have this foot and ankle much better by October. I’m taking a trip then that will involve a lot of walking and hiking, and I need that foot in much better shape!
Maybe, just maybe the doc can take another stab and figuring out what is going on with you and determine if PT would help. (Yeah, I know you had a lackluster experience with PT in the past, but maybe that was an anomaly?) And then there are the alternative treatments like acupuncture to consider, too. I know it’s an expense you’re not counting on, but it’s terrible to think that you’re living with such pain all the time!
Hopefully the enteritis is over and you feel better now.
Actually, I’ve decided to rent a room at his office, since I practically live there anyway. 😉
Ha hah! When I said that to him, he replied, without batting a single handsome lash, “We have some extra space!”
At least the man is scenic, if nothing else. {sigh}
Actually, the accursed back thing goes back to about May of 2012. I’ve used up all my 2013 Medicare benefits for physical therapy, and so won’t have access to that again until January of 2014. It did help enough that I was able to go on the hike I’d planned last spring, so that was excellent.
My mistake was taking Young Dr. Kildare up on his recommendation that I see a cardiologist. Apparently the vigorous exercise needed to lose the 22 pounds CardioDoc said were threatening my life is what kicked off the hip pain — at least, that’s YDK’s theory. This then led YDK to conclude that my problem is not a bad back but a bad hip. He is, IMHO, wrong about that; we will see come the end of next month, when I get in to see a rheumatologist who is not connected with YDK’s practice.
The enteritis is clearing up — apparently it was a “24-hour” virus, which for someone my age means a “48-hour (or more)” virus. The belly hardly hurts at all any more.
After three days flat on my back, the back/hip pain also improved dramatically. Hmmm…
It hasn’t been my experience that YDK and CardioDoc expect that one should just put up with pain, although YDK, who is gifted with more than the usual share of common sense, acknowledges that sometimes there’s a limit to how much medicos can or should do. To the contrary, what I’ve found is doctors who want to REALLY lay on the tests (often, one learns, utterly unnecessary), to consider surgery, and to prescribe medications that frequently do more harm than good. As a practical matter, I’m the one who operates by the theory that time is the best healer. Wait long enough, and whatever ails you will either go away or kill you.