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Jul. 16th, 2019 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeStill here, just very out of the habit of updating. Which I should get back into. Also, today, extremely tired.
(Wait, when did I last update? Holy yikes. I should get back into the habit a couple times a week at least.)
And most of this happened on Monday. So, the boy's hip continues to bother him, this has been an ongoing thing for a couple of months now exacerbated by a patient falling on him. Now, he was scheduled to have a class at the end of the month called "Train the Trainer" or part of a program called "Train the Trainer," I'm a bit fuzzy on that part, but it's something the US Federal Government does in at least two departments (I know because I have family in them) where they take people who are responsible and reliable and send them off to learn new techniques or practices or protocols and bring them back to their home office. And this was to be the start of that.
But if his hip continues to bother him he says he's not sure how he'll make it through the class. And argh. Ugh. Yikes. Bleh. The upside to this is that he does have a doctor's appointment coming up before the class where hopefully they'll be able to figure out roughly what it is, give him a cortisone shot or some exercises or a prescription or some combination of the three, and he'll be okay for the class. Ibuprofen and acetaminophen in normal use doses seem to help, so that's good too. I just. Argh. Stress.
The other downside! More stress! Our Michelle-cat has been losing weight recently, which worried us some but not immediately, we made a vet appointment for her. And then yesterday morning (the same morning he told me he wasn't sure he was going to be able to do the class so that was fun) the boy discovered a lump on her throat to one side. So we moved the vet appointment up to this morning. And the upside there is that the doc thinks the lump is either a lymph node or a salivary gland, not a mast cell tumor like her brother had. Her losing weight could very well be thyroid condition. The downside (and this is starting to feel like that Simpsons sketch from bloody ages ago) is that it could also be some form of lymph-based cancer. WE DON'T KNOW. Isn't it fun. We'll find out in a week. I'm not looking forward to any of it. I have headaches and a dental cleaning tomorrow and if I get some bad news there I'm just going to spend the next few days hiding in my house.
There are things that are going well? Writing is going well. Guitar is going really well, I'm really excited and happy about it and slowly progressing. I have pretty much all the equipment and books I'll need for a good long while, except for the hoard of guitar picks I plan on getting as soon as I figure out which weight of pick I favor. I have this thing, for someone who grew up in the upper middle class it's probably weird, but I hoard supplies for my hobbies just in case I suddenly can't afford them, even if I'm not actively doing them at the moment. Like my ginormous set of colored pencils and my 12 pack of blending pencils. 6 pack of sketchbooks. Though I've filled three sketchbooks by now so that's not that unusual. And now with guitar, I have my guitars standard and bass, I have stands, I have amps and cables, I have a tuner, I have straps and gig bags, I have pick holders and a small supply of picks and spare strings and when I find out what pick weight I like, I will get a hoard of picks and then feel comforted that I won't likely run out. Even though picks are like $5 for a dozen. I have insecurities.
Anyway. That's going fine. I'm just stressed about every other goddamn thing that is not immediately under my control. So this is a fun day. Week. Thing. Wednesday is going to be brutal. Maybe I'll sleep through Thursday.
(Wait, when did I last update? Holy yikes. I should get back into the habit a couple times a week at least.)
And most of this happened on Monday. So, the boy's hip continues to bother him, this has been an ongoing thing for a couple of months now exacerbated by a patient falling on him. Now, he was scheduled to have a class at the end of the month called "Train the Trainer" or part of a program called "Train the Trainer," I'm a bit fuzzy on that part, but it's something the US Federal Government does in at least two departments (I know because I have family in them) where they take people who are responsible and reliable and send them off to learn new techniques or practices or protocols and bring them back to their home office. And this was to be the start of that.
But if his hip continues to bother him he says he's not sure how he'll make it through the class. And argh. Ugh. Yikes. Bleh. The upside to this is that he does have a doctor's appointment coming up before the class where hopefully they'll be able to figure out roughly what it is, give him a cortisone shot or some exercises or a prescription or some combination of the three, and he'll be okay for the class. Ibuprofen and acetaminophen in normal use doses seem to help, so that's good too. I just. Argh. Stress.
The other downside! More stress! Our Michelle-cat has been losing weight recently, which worried us some but not immediately, we made a vet appointment for her. And then yesterday morning (the same morning he told me he wasn't sure he was going to be able to do the class so that was fun) the boy discovered a lump on her throat to one side. So we moved the vet appointment up to this morning. And the upside there is that the doc thinks the lump is either a lymph node or a salivary gland, not a mast cell tumor like her brother had. Her losing weight could very well be thyroid condition. The downside (and this is starting to feel like that Simpsons sketch from bloody ages ago) is that it could also be some form of lymph-based cancer. WE DON'T KNOW. Isn't it fun. We'll find out in a week. I'm not looking forward to any of it. I have headaches and a dental cleaning tomorrow and if I get some bad news there I'm just going to spend the next few days hiding in my house.
There are things that are going well? Writing is going well. Guitar is going really well, I'm really excited and happy about it and slowly progressing. I have pretty much all the equipment and books I'll need for a good long while, except for the hoard of guitar picks I plan on getting as soon as I figure out which weight of pick I favor. I have this thing, for someone who grew up in the upper middle class it's probably weird, but I hoard supplies for my hobbies just in case I suddenly can't afford them, even if I'm not actively doing them at the moment. Like my ginormous set of colored pencils and my 12 pack of blending pencils. 6 pack of sketchbooks. Though I've filled three sketchbooks by now so that's not that unusual. And now with guitar, I have my guitars standard and bass, I have stands, I have amps and cables, I have a tuner, I have straps and gig bags, I have pick holders and a small supply of picks and spare strings and when I find out what pick weight I like, I will get a hoard of picks and then feel comforted that I won't likely run out. Even though picks are like $5 for a dozen. I have insecurities.
Anyway. That's going fine. I'm just stressed about every other goddamn thing that is not immediately under my control. So this is a fun day. Week. Thing. Wednesday is going to be brutal. Maybe I'll sleep through Thursday.
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Date: 2019-07-16 11:15 pm (UTC)p.s. i am Familiar with hip pain, and if it's bursitis or his SI joint or possibly even something else, I might have helpful suggestions for managing pain? if you want. or the boy wants, rather. anyway, i'll let y'all figure it out but i'm here just ask. i might even do a blog post on my wordpress blog anyway, because 'how do i cope with this hip pain' is something that keeps coming up on the internets.
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Date: 2019-07-17 02:11 am (UTC)I will keep you updated on what it turns out to be! *I'll* appreciate the help anyway, and he takes input pretty easily.
So far the descriptions I have from him (repeating some stuff from above for the sake of having it all in the same place) are no precipitating event so probably not injury, though a patient falling on him did exacerbate it. He's taken ibuprofen and acetaminophen, not together, but both at normal OTC doses with what he calls a good result. He can make it through a 12 hour shift as a CNA at a medical facility without feeling debilitated. It hurts noticeably when he sits down or stands up. He has full and normal mobility, he demonstrated movement for me this morning so that's fine. Yesterday he worked a 12 hour shift, went grocery shopping, sat down in the car and his leg on the painful hip side went numb, that's the first he's told me of any numbness.
Initially my thought was that he had the same problem I have, which is that periodically just from overwork and underdevelopment of the right groupings my muscles get sore, usually in hips, around knees, and in lower back. (Ballet for the first, heavy lifting at work for the second.) He says he's done some exercises and they don't help, but I don't know what exercises he's specifically done or how long he's done them, I know after my back went out to the point where I could barely move let alone get off the floor it took a couple weeks of PT for me to feel back to normal.
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