So, I've had ankle problems for a while now. I've had 2 surgeries on my ankle, and it still bugs me now and again, especially if I'm on it all the time. And babysitting a 1.5 year old who has learned how to get into EVERYTHING, keeps you on your feet from sun up till sun down. So my ankle was feeling sore, and my whole leg was cramping up occasionally.
Well, I was headed downstairs to my bedroom when I stepped down, and I felt something strange in my leg. The only way I could describe it is, it's like if you have a rubber band in your leg stretched from your thigh down to your foot, and suddenly it snaps and you can feel it running down your leg. That is followed by excruciating pain.
The next morning I could barely walk, so I went to see my doctor. He was worried about a potential blood clot, so he sent me over for some tests. No blood clot was evident, but he was still worried enough about my pain and swelling that he told me he wanted me in a wheel chair at all times, and wanted me to see an orthopedic specialist who was coming to the clinic.
So he gave me a prescription to rent a wheel chair and some pain killers and told me if I have any more pain to get seen right away, even if I have to go to the e.r. I gave it the weekend. I decided to see if the painkillers would work through the weekend and get seen on Monday if I wasn't any better.
The painkillers really didn't help much. In fact, it made things worse, the meds gave me a serious headache and barely numbed the pain so I stopped taking it. I wanted to see if there was anything else my doctor could do, and if he could give me a less potent pain med.
That morning I got a call from the office that he was needed in the hospital so they rescheduled me for that afternoon with a physician assistant. So I hopped in my wheelchair and headed to the appointment. I was in a lot of pain, so I was trying to get comfortable in my wheelchair when he walked in the room. I gave him a friendly "hi, how are you?" and was met by a severe scolding for making my wheelchair squeak. I was a bit taken a-back... I couldn't understand why a health care provider would be so rude after being met with a friendly hello from me. Especially knowing I was in bad pain and already feeling miserable.
The rest of the appointment was even worse. I have NEVER been treated so bad by a medical professional. All I did was say hi, how are you, and everything fell apart from there. He was mean, he was rude, he was a complete ass. I held my tongue as long as I could, until I finally lost my temper and stormed out. First time in my life I ever filed a complaint, but he was completely out of line.
The next day I finally got to see my own doctor, who was very apologetic about how I was treated. And I can't say how... but I was vindicated when I found out I'm not the first person to complain about him. So now I know it wasn't just me.
So all that was going on and I was completely stressed out. I fell asleep on my chair, and somehow my Droid 2 fell into the seat of my chair and when I pushed back into a recline position, it got crushed in the bendy metal part of the chair. $400 later I now have a Samsung. Not sure what it is called, I guess it's a 4G android Charge or something. I don't know. It's a cute phone, but I miss my flip out keypad option. I'm not use to touch screen.
But the bummer part is, I need a new lap top. My laptop says like "80% available (plugged in but not charging"... and every few days it loses a percentage. When my battery got down to 25% I bought a new battery to see if that would work. Sadly it didn't, and my battery is now down to 73% and dropping every few days. I tried a few minor fixes like going to system properties, device manager, batteries, and deleting the Microsoft ACPI-compliant control method battery, then reinstalling it and restarting my computer. That didn't work. So I took it to a computer repair place. The diagnostic and repair would cost about half of a new laptop, so I started shopping around... that was BEFORE I spent the price of a new laptop on my new freaking phone.
Sad thing is... even the cheap non-smart phones are nearly $200 these days... so I figured, why not just go for another smart phone since I use it so much?
Just when I thought nothing else could go wrong... I had a publisher that seemed interested in my book. They are a niche publisher that deal with the paranormal and found my proposal interesting enough to want to read it. They asked to see the manuscript and then I got an email that they were about to have a meeting on the manuscript.
That was the day of the Virginia earthquake. The Virginia earthquake was centered in Richmond. Guess where the publisher is out of? Yup. Richmond Virginia. Haven't heard from them since. Normally they are very friendly and good about contacting you right away... so whether they had decided to publish the book or not, they'd have let me know as soon as they knew. So I'm assuming they are dealing with a lot of damage from the quake since they are located right where it happened.
Seriously, I'm so glad tomorrow is Friday, cause I can't wait to start a new week. I need a hug.
Fingers crossed the bad week doesn't carry over into Friday, because there is one interested party who wants to buy my house coming for a second showing with their parents. It seems an offer may be coming, but the way my week has been going, I don't want to get my hopes up.
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