When did I get old?

[thez]

BORING REAL LIFE RAMBLING.

Ever get the feeling that the days are just crawling by at a snail's pace?

Part of it is because I'm not in school, I'm working relatively few hours, and some days I can just work from home (STILL WORK, yes, but working in your pajamas is totally different).

Part of it is I feel like I'm doing a lot of waiting lately, mostly waiting on calls from doctors and sundry bureaucrats. Phone tag is like purgatory without guarantee of reward.

A BIG part of it is that I hurt my back and am sort of languishing indoors. I think it's overall stress and tension. I pulled a muscle in my upper back twice already this month. This time it is my LOWER back, and initially I wasn't sure if it was a sprain or a strain or whether I should use heat or ice on it or whether I should stay in bed or try to exercise it out or WHAT. That was Wednesday. It still hurts about the same, so I'm guessing it's not so much a simple sprain. It's fine for maybe an hour after I sit on an ice pack and then it's back to PAIN CITY. Maybe I should go to the doctor again?

I'm trying to switch to another clinic, as the one I am currently assigned to does not return phone calls apparently. "HEY THEY FORGOT TO VERIFY THIS PART OF THE PRESCRIPTION." Call. Leave message. Wait a few days. Call. Leave message. Wait a few days. Call. Leave message. Wait a few days. Go to the clinic in person and wait for three hours for something that takes five minutes to do. NEW ADVENTURE: "HEY THEY SAID I MIGHT HAVE LUPUS BUT NO ONE GOT BACK TO ME ON THAT (no, seriously)". Call. Leave message. Wait a few days. Call. Leave message. Wait a few days. Call. Leave message. Wait a few days. Go to the clinic in person and wait for three hours for someone to tell me I don't have Lupus (YAY). NEW ADVENTURE: TRYING TO GET A REFERRAL. I think you can guess how that went down.

Then again, I sort of wonder if switching clinics is going to make any difference and if I should just give up on the idea of health care altogether until that glorious day in the future when I have private health insurance.

P.S. First one to make a "it's never lupus (except that one time)" joke gets a reward for most predictable.

Comments

[jesuitfluff.livejournal.com]

I think now is a good time for us to build that compound out in the middle of the desert where we can all just ... do things... and not have mysterious disorders, or something, or something.

GOD.

Also, phone tag is indeed like unto purgatory. That is a very very good analogy.

[thez.livejournal.com]

Is this enough of a problem that we need a compound for that? I didn't realize. XD "DESERT COMPOUND OF AWESOME: NO DISORDERS ALLOWED"

JEEZ.

I'll bring the solar panels if you bring the farming implements!

[rotsman.livejournal.com]

Geez, you're falling apart as if you were competing on this season's Dancing With The Stars (NEXT UP: Steve Wozniak's right foot just FALLS THE FUCK OFF in the middle of a waltz).

That doctor doesn't seem very professional. It couldn't hurt to ask around and see if any of your local peoples have a good doctor!

You got old when you forgot how to explore the more hedonistic side of human nature! You know when I got young? When I started teaching, of course! Doing the thing that I love to do ALL DAY and I get paid (somewhat) for it? I think I'm "younger" NOW than I was when we met a decade ago!

Every once in a while you need to KNOCK OFF ALL THIS CAPRICORN CRAP and just have a little unscheduled whimsy!

[thez.livejournal.com]

I am tremendously grateful that I do not understand your Dancing With The Stars reference.

See, it's not a doctor, it's a whole clinic. Since I'm on AHCCCS, I don't get A doctor, I just get covered at one of those low-income clinics. As such, doctor recs won't really do me any good.

All the really good hedonism requires money, I think.

[thez.livejournal.com]

That sounded way more negative than I'd intended. Sheesh, excuse me while I wave away this black cloud over my head.

[rotsman.livejournal.com]

"All the really good hedonism requires money, I think."

...or willing co-conspirators... ^_~

As for the solo option: even if you're taking time to just do something creative or lay on your back on a heating pad while eating chili cheese Fritos off your stomach, it still counts!

[shinikius.livejournal.com]

New doctor now. It is complete and utter bullshit if they can't even verify a prescription because that takes a grand total of 3 minutes (maybe).

Hmm, backpain? What you should do (if it is a muscle issue) is get a heating pad and lay flat out on the floor and just do nothing but read a book or something. I've done the same thing and was having issues with it for a week or so. Believe me, those things make you want to cry like no other. Ice only tends to fuck up the muscles in those sorts of situations.

And ya know, I think spring tends to mess with your head. I'm convinced it does. It makes me not want to do anything but read outside... but ya know that thing called work beckons. And yay for no Lupus?

I hope you're feeling somewhat better.

[thez.livejournal.com]

I have gotten more conflicting information on tissue inflammation and heat/ice than I know what to do with. At this point I think I'll just go with whichever is more soothing.

I suspect that's school more than spring that's messing with your head, because I know what you're talking about. XD

[shinikius.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think the negative work vibes are the culprit. Not so much kids but asshole administrators.

Although, I'm pretty sure 先生 is probably going to be glaring at me on Friday as I missed class on Monday and then today due to some idiot needing an air-evac on the Carefree Hwy thus preventing me from getting to class.