On Monday, my doc's office said they are sending me for an x-ray. I may learn WHEN on Tuesday. Should be sometime in the coming week. I really do think something is wrong in my wrist. A bone chip in the joint? Maybe just some stubborn inflammation? (But it's been 4 months!!) Not sure whether I'm facing just more PT, cortisone shots, or surgery. But whatever it is, if it means I can sign my name without pain, finish the quilt I was working on, and pick up a grandchild without wincing, I'm all for it!!
That's rockface! The interstate was made by blasting through granite and marble and other stone and what you see there is the part they didn't need to remove. If you look to the left of the photograph, you'll see that the land is higher on the left than on the right, and that the rockface in the middle is what was left of the hill. It's like this all along the interstate.
Some years ago, the State began to remove some of the rock, because every now and then a chunk falls off. But there was such an uproar among the citizenry that they thought better of it. We love our wild landscape.
It looks like a plow/dump ytuck combo depositing snow in the median because there is not room to shove it to the side. The median probably has drainage to prevent mud slides when the ground melts. Highway engineering really has improved.
{listener} Incidentally, I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term “freeway” used for roads in New England. The closest is New York and even then it’s called the New York Thruway.
But Vermont’s interstate (and all roads) have a law prohibiting billboards, and there are no tolls collected anywhere in Vermont. So it is pretty free, all things considered.
The term "freeway" came into existence, primarily in California, to distinguish them from the previously existing toll roads. I learned to drive in California, so I still use the term sometimes, but it never really caught on elsewhere.
They didn’t yet have my X-ray order, so I called my doc to have them fax it over. Apparently they’d done it previously, but it was somehow not here. 🤷🏻♀️
Half hour later and still no fax here. (Have to wonder if the fax machine got unplugged.) ❓
Good! I remember a case where the sensitized fax paper was loaded upside down, and one blank sheet of paper was "printed" after another. I have also encountered cases of fax machines that couldn't communicate with one another. ---Alan
Yesterday I visited my doctor with respect to my shortness of breath, which has become very obnoxious. He had ordered all sorts of blood tests, which all came back OK. The chest X-ray was stable, but showed some scarring (presumably from the pneumonia I had--twice in two years--about sixty-five years ago). My systolic blood pressure had been increasing, so he prescribed BP medicine for me, which I started to good effect this morning. Bronchodilator commences tomorrow. Stress test and CAT scan of lungs to come. ----Alan
puddle-- eye drops in all day; nothing to eat or drink after mid-night, surgery at ten. Gonna be one dry day. Lke to be on your prayer list. Love you all!
My prayers and three bucks might buy you a cup of coffee these days; but you have my most sincere good wishes. No matter good statistics and what people say, the operation sounds scary. ---Alan
Well the test results are in. Nothing broken or dislocated. They did mention "mild osteopenia" which surprises me, because my fancy bone density scans done not even two years ago declared that I have the bone mass of a young adult...! 🤷🏻♀️ I guess we'll see what the doctor says tomorrow. But it's VERY good news that there's no obstruction in the joint...!
The photo is of Vermont Interstate I-89.
ReplyDeleteOn Monday, my doc's office said they are sending me for an x-ray. I may learn WHEN on Tuesday.
Should be sometime in the coming week. I really do think something is wrong in my wrist.
A bone chip in the joint? Maybe just some stubborn inflammation? (But it's been 4 months!!)
Not sure whether I'm facing just more PT, cortisone shots, or surgery. But whatever it is, if it means I can sign my name without pain, finish the quilt I was working on, and pick up a grandchild without wincing, I'm all for it!!
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ReplyDeleteSending you good vibes, puddle! 💐
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DeleteQuestion about the lead photo: what are those two large dark things in the center part of the freeway with some snow on them?
ReplyDelete---Alan
That's rockface! The interstate was made by blasting through granite and marble and other stone and what you see there is the part they didn't need to remove. If you look to the left of the photograph, you'll see that the land is higher on the left than on the right, and that the rockface in the middle is what was left of the hill. It's like this all along the interstate.
DeleteSome years ago, the State began to remove some of the rock, because every now and then a chunk falls off. But there was such an uproar among the citizenry that they thought better of it. We love our wild landscape.
That's interesting!
Delete---Alan
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DeleteI added another photo out front.
It looks like a plow/dump ytuck combo depositing snow in the median because there is not room to shove it to the side. The median probably has drainage to prevent mud slides when the ground melts.
ReplyDeleteHighway engineering really has improved.
I was wondering about that, but have never seen the like.
Delete---Alan
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DeleteIncidentally, I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term “freeway” used for roads in New England. The closest is New York and even then it’s called the New York Thruway.
But Vermont’s interstate (and all roads) have a law prohibiting billboards, and there are no tolls collected anywhere in Vermont. So it is pretty free, all things considered.
The term "freeway" came into existence, primarily in California, to distinguish them from the previously existing toll roads. I learned to drive in California, so I still use the term sometimes, but it never really caught on elsewhere.
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DeleteMay the result point the way forward!
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DeleteThey didn’t yet have my X-ray order, so I called my doc to have them fax it over. Apparently they’d done it previously, but it was somehow not here. 🤷🏻♀️
Half hour later and still no fax here.
(Have to wonder if the fax machine got unplugged.) ❓
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DeleteIt just finally came through!!! 🥳
Good! I remember a case where the sensitized fax paper was loaded upside down, and one blank sheet of paper was "printed" after another. I have also encountered cases of fax machines that couldn't communicate with one another.
Delete---Alan
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DeleteDone!
Results in a couple days.
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DeleteYesterday I visited my doctor with respect to my shortness of breath, which has become very obnoxious. He had ordered all sorts of blood tests, which all came back OK. The chest X-ray was stable, but showed some scarring (presumably from the pneumonia I had--twice in two years--about sixty-five years ago). My systolic blood pressure had been increasing, so he prescribed BP medicine for me, which I started to good effect this morning. Bronchodilator commences tomorrow. Stress test and CAT scan of lungs to come.
Delete----Alan
🌻Hoping all good things for you, Alan.
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Thanks; fingers crossed.
Delete---Alan
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DeleteFingers, toes, heart, prayers and eyes crossed!
Eyes is rather overdoing it, particularly for someone with fencebuilder's thumb. I'll be OK, one way or another.
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Well, maybe figuratively, then. 😆
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ReplyDeletepuddle-- eye drops in all day; nothing to eat or drink after mid-night, surgery at ten. Gonna be one dry day. Lke to be on your prayer list. Love you all!
ReplyDeleteMy prayers and three bucks might buy you a cup of coffee these days; but you have my most sincere good wishes. No matter good statistics and what people say, the operation sounds scary.
Delete---Alan
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DeleteWell the test results are in. Nothing broken or dislocated. They did mention "mild osteopenia" which surprises me, because my fancy bone density scans done not even two years ago declared that I have the bone mass of a young adult...! 🤷🏻♀️ I guess we'll see what the doctor says tomorrow. But it's VERY good news that there's no obstruction in the joint...!
ReplyDeleteYes.that IS good, and it points the way toward effective therapy. And now to bed for me.
Delete----Alan