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State Of The Ricky
Dec. 16th, 2011 11:28 amThis week has had many positives and negatives:
+ Met a net.friend for the first time on Monday and we got on fabulously and had a brilliant time! I hope to spend lots more time with her, both our health statuses permitting.
+ Had a very productive appointment with a new orthotist (brace/splint person) who was extremely experienced and very knowledgable in relevant things.
+ New orthotist thinks he can manage to brace up my ankles so I can walk without ankle pain and also fixed up my wrist brace where it was rubbing skin off my thumb. AND he's going to apply for the state funding program to pay for the quite expensive ankle braces (dynamic AFOs) which is great.
- In stark contrast to the above appointment, the day after that I had a very useless and frustrating medical appointment with the allergist at the public hospital. The appointment involved FIVE HOURS extra useless waiting for various things (actual time of things happening, including travelling both ways, was about an hour and a half, so I was out of the house for six and a half hours) and after all that I mostly got "keep doing what you're doing with no changes" although I thought I was fairly clear about the things that I wasn't happy about. Very disappointing.
+ But my new wheelchair has finally arrived! It's minus one small hook on the back, as the seating place lost it, but it'll be easy to screw in once it arrives here - they already drilled the screw holes and such. New wheelchair is WONDERFUL and will merit it's own post I suspect once I've got used to it - it does need reprogramming because the joystick response is very delayed at the moment, the opposite of how I like it, but that's happening on Wednesday. Sweet Christmas gift!
- Following allllll the above excitement I am so overtired and low on energy that it's not funny. Trying hard to rest up before CHristmas so I can enjoy it.
- Also migrainey, probably because I'm so overtired.
+ Met a net.friend for the first time on Monday and we got on fabulously and had a brilliant time! I hope to spend lots more time with her, both our health statuses permitting.
+ Had a very productive appointment with a new orthotist (brace/splint person) who was extremely experienced and very knowledgable in relevant things.
+ New orthotist thinks he can manage to brace up my ankles so I can walk without ankle pain and also fixed up my wrist brace where it was rubbing skin off my thumb. AND he's going to apply for the state funding program to pay for the quite expensive ankle braces (dynamic AFOs) which is great.
- In stark contrast to the above appointment, the day after that I had a very useless and frustrating medical appointment with the allergist at the public hospital. The appointment involved FIVE HOURS extra useless waiting for various things (actual time of things happening, including travelling both ways, was about an hour and a half, so I was out of the house for six and a half hours) and after all that I mostly got "keep doing what you're doing with no changes" although I thought I was fairly clear about the things that I wasn't happy about. Very disappointing.
+ But my new wheelchair has finally arrived! It's minus one small hook on the back, as the seating place lost it, but it'll be easy to screw in once it arrives here - they already drilled the screw holes and such. New wheelchair is WONDERFUL and will merit it's own post I suspect once I've got used to it - it does need reprogramming because the joystick response is very delayed at the moment, the opposite of how I like it, but that's happening on Wednesday. Sweet Christmas gift!
- Following allllll the above excitement I am so overtired and low on energy that it's not funny. Trying hard to rest up before CHristmas so I can enjoy it.
- Also migrainey, probably because I'm so overtired.
