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It's Thursday and we're sliding towards the end of the week! We can do it!
Yesterday I had my ortho appointment. It...did not go as well as I could have hoped. The doctor had already decided that any damage I had was because I'm 51. He was more concerned about me not having a primary care doctor than anything I had to say. He also said that he thought the radiologist was wrong and that it wasn't a full thickness tear. He informed me that a lot of 50 year olds have rotator curr tears, and most of them don't even know it, because it's just normal wear and tear. I tried to explain that the really bad pain happened after helping the paramedics put dad to bed, but that didn't seem to make a difference. He prescribed physical therapy and nothing else. He "can't" prescribe pain medication, and suggested going to pain management to deal with my various aches and pains.
I felt so small and stupid. How dare I bother him for something as trivial as a normal facet of aging? I wanted to just curl up in a ball and cry, but instead I went to work. By the time afternoon rolled around, I was pissed. I did make an appointment with a pain management clinic for tomorrow, but I'm also thinking about finding another ortho and getting a second opinion. Maybe they tell me the same thing. It's possible. But I feel like I got hung out to dry with this one. Please go do potentially painful physical therapy with nothing but ineffective over the counter NSAIDS, which will 100% wreck your stomach and cause new problems. If the second ortho agrees with the first than I'll deal with it, but I need someone to actually listen to what I say.
So, I'm looking at potential doctors. I don't *want* surgery. I just want someone to validate that yes, I have an injury. Not an inevitable part of aging, an injury. And tell me how to heal it, or at least reduce the pain.
It just was not a good visit, and I'm still salty about it.
After all that, work was a bit of a struggle, but I did okay. Only 46 calls, but still. Then we had game, which was a lot of fun. I'm weaving a bit of a twisty plot with Blades in the Dark, and it's going to be interesting to see what happens next session.
Tonight we have another game, this one the one based loosely on the movie Toys. Then, tomorrow, we have a continuation of another game. Which I need to do some serious prep for. I have literally done nothing. I have no maps, no plot, so that's what I'm going to be working on this morning.
Okay, I should get to work on that. Everyone have an excellent Thursday!
Yesterday I had my ortho appointment. It...did not go as well as I could have hoped. The doctor had already decided that any damage I had was because I'm 51. He was more concerned about me not having a primary care doctor than anything I had to say. He also said that he thought the radiologist was wrong and that it wasn't a full thickness tear. He informed me that a lot of 50 year olds have rotator curr tears, and most of them don't even know it, because it's just normal wear and tear. I tried to explain that the really bad pain happened after helping the paramedics put dad to bed, but that didn't seem to make a difference. He prescribed physical therapy and nothing else. He "can't" prescribe pain medication, and suggested going to pain management to deal with my various aches and pains.
I felt so small and stupid. How dare I bother him for something as trivial as a normal facet of aging? I wanted to just curl up in a ball and cry, but instead I went to work. By the time afternoon rolled around, I was pissed. I did make an appointment with a pain management clinic for tomorrow, but I'm also thinking about finding another ortho and getting a second opinion. Maybe they tell me the same thing. It's possible. But I feel like I got hung out to dry with this one. Please go do potentially painful physical therapy with nothing but ineffective over the counter NSAIDS, which will 100% wreck your stomach and cause new problems. If the second ortho agrees with the first than I'll deal with it, but I need someone to actually listen to what I say.
So, I'm looking at potential doctors. I don't *want* surgery. I just want someone to validate that yes, I have an injury. Not an inevitable part of aging, an injury. And tell me how to heal it, or at least reduce the pain.
It just was not a good visit, and I'm still salty about it.
After all that, work was a bit of a struggle, but I did okay. Only 46 calls, but still. Then we had game, which was a lot of fun. I'm weaving a bit of a twisty plot with Blades in the Dark, and it's going to be interesting to see what happens next session.
Tonight we have another game, this one the one based loosely on the movie Toys. Then, tomorrow, we have a continuation of another game. Which I need to do some serious prep for. I have literally done nothing. I have no maps, no plot, so that's what I'm going to be working on this morning.
Okay, I should get to work on that. Everyone have an excellent Thursday!
