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Lovely fall day today.
Nov. 6th, 2018 04:15 pmWell, if by lovely fall day you mean rain and wind, sometimes separately, sometime together. It's still nearly 50F (9C), so it's not nearly as bad as it could be. The black cat has been out a couple of times already today, annoyed every time; but he keeps going out when it's not raining, and romping for the door when it starts to rain again.
I'm nearly done with the gardens - only two to go, and one of them is the one up against the house which doesn't have a lot left to be done. I just need to cut back the alliums and the other late blooming things there. Saturday I finished the E garden, and Sunday I did the garden by the forsythia patch. I should probably clean out under the forsythia and trim it back, too, but not today. I'm hoping for one or two more 'warm' days (or at least dry) this year.
I discombobulated a new doc yesterday. After reading the description of my symptoms (as taken down by a not-quite-intern), she was pretty sure of the diagnosis, and was discombobulated when I told her all the reasons that her preliminary diagnosis was wrong. After a couple of tests, she pretty willingly admitted that she was wrong (it was almost certainly *not* what she thought), and perhaps she learned something. I expect there was some discussion after. {My primary doc is a supervising doc for UMich residents/interns, so I often get baby/new docs when I go in. She still has final call on treatment. She has told me (she lives in Chelsea) that she likes sending new docs to me because I'm good at describing symptoms. Not just 'my thumb hurts', but 'my thumb hurts here when I do W, and this-other-place when I do Y'.} So I get six weeks of PT with the hand specialist, and maybe a splint. It may just be tendinitis, but there may be some actual damage underlying that, hence the splint. I find out tomorrow. whee?
I'm nearly done with the gardens - only two to go, and one of them is the one up against the house which doesn't have a lot left to be done. I just need to cut back the alliums and the other late blooming things there. Saturday I finished the E garden, and Sunday I did the garden by the forsythia patch. I should probably clean out under the forsythia and trim it back, too, but not today. I'm hoping for one or two more 'warm' days (or at least dry) this year.
I discombobulated a new doc yesterday. After reading the description of my symptoms (as taken down by a not-quite-intern), she was pretty sure of the diagnosis, and was discombobulated when I told her all the reasons that her preliminary diagnosis was wrong. After a couple of tests, she pretty willingly admitted that she was wrong (it was almost certainly *not* what she thought), and perhaps she learned something. I expect there was some discussion after. {My primary doc is a supervising doc for UMich residents/interns, so I often get baby/new docs when I go in. She still has final call on treatment. She has told me (she lives in Chelsea) that she likes sending new docs to me because I'm good at describing symptoms. Not just 'my thumb hurts', but 'my thumb hurts here when I do W, and this-other-place when I do Y'.} So I get six weeks of PT with the hand specialist, and maybe a splint. It may just be tendinitis, but there may be some actual damage underlying that, hence the splint. I find out tomorrow. whee?
