April Fools

I think my new Physical Therapist pulled an april's fool joke on me. I went yesterday for the first time and I was totally shocked to see the amount of spasm my right calf muscles are in (this is common after an injury, the spascity is to splint the injury to keep pain levels down) You can't really measure this on yourself because leaning over you change the angle of muscle pull etc). So, I really do need PT. I already knew that. He did some strength/counter strength work on the foot and it feels better (there is pain along the outside of my foot along the baby toe area, deep in the ankle joint anteriorly and at the knee from the spasms). He slaps on a piece of kinesotape on the top of my foot and up the leg (it's designed to help lift tissuse off inflamed nerves but it LOOKS like an April's fools joke since you're walking around wiht a piece of tape taht's supposed to help you...and it usually does).

So I go to make my appointment for today to see how the tape is working and do more work. The only appointment 730AM! I looked at the receptionist and asked, 'they have one of those? I thought there was only one 730 and it came at night.' I do NOT get up in the morning. Yuck. So I agree to this. Slog 25 miles back there this morning and he checks me with and without the tape and without the tape is much more painful. So we slap on some water proof kinesotape and talk about options. Monday I go in for electroshock to the acupunture points (it doesn't hurt, don't worry) and he agrees with my worse fears. The deep ankle pain isn't tendonitis, which means it's non-contractile tissue damage (which makes sense that the home therapy with the theraband didn't work). Hopefully it's just capsulitis and will get better with therapy. If not, then it's talar dome damage and I'm screwed.

But the upshot of this joke is I'm in there 5 minutes so he can change a piece of tape and do NO therapy. I could kill him. I'm only slotted for 8 sessions. He just wasted one of them. I go to Wal-mart and I'm done shopping before I would even be awake on a normal work day. ARGH.

ETA - Oh now THAT was funny. The computer geeks at LJ set it up so that my update button had to be chased down and then it said process whining. Do they know us or what?

WHEEEE!

Some nice anonymous person paid for a half year of LJ for me (I don't even know how much that costs. I'm so bad). So THANK YOU! (Okay I know who it is but it was done anonymously so I'll keep it that way) Bounce bounce. Icons!!

See, this is karma at work. Earlier this week I took my food money and bought my brother a dvd of a movie he loved from the 80's (I think, early 90's at the latest) because he's still sick.

and a little spma from esmeralda_t

The No-Hassle Day Planner for the Clinically Insane by MilesToGo13
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This morning, you should...	nail your door shut and sit in the corner of your house with a gun pointed at your windows, in case "they" arrive.
Then, after lunch...	pretend that you are a mime on a busy street corner, and push anyone who seems to be enjoying your show into traffic.
Dinner will consist of...	three fifths of Jack, a pack of smokes, and some Valium.
Afterwards, you set off into the evening to...	scream at random people that the sky is falling, shortly before you hit them over the head with a mallet.
At the height of your madness, you will call	marenfic
And the two of you will proceed to...	practice the fine art of helping one another escape from straight-jackets using only your teeth.
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