Raptor Screams

[cornerofmadness]

After a morning of nightmares and waking up late, I get to the orthopedic surgeon for the renewal of the handicapped tags. He sits down and says why are you hear for this? Um because your predecessor gave it to me originally. 'Well, now they want general practitioners to do this.' Leaving aside that makes NO sense since this is often an orthopedic issue (I mean WHY does the doctor type matter to the state of Ohio), I said WHY did you NOT tell me this last week. You knew why I made this appointment. All you had to do was send the girl back out when I was here last week and say we don't do that, call your GP. You could have told me this two weeks ago when I was here about my knee and my fall and you never even looked at my ankle post fall.

He doesn't answer and wants to see my ankle. First he's like we'll inject this for the pain. He did get more x-rays because like me he thinks non-weight bearing foot/ankle x-rays are useless and they pretty much are unless there's severe damage to the foot, you should get it weight bearing. The ankle isn't broken but the ligament is torn. Like I said. I told him I'm already doing the ABC and spiral therapies and using the TENS because this is my wheelhouse. Oh okay get a balance board off Amazon (No I won't thank you). So I said give me ALL my x-rays. He did and scooted out of there like he expected me to kill him. He wasn't wrong.



So I look, it's ten to one already. I grab a Sonic's dog and go down the street to my GP because I have no idea WHERE the phone is but it's not in my purse so I can't call. Guess what, my GP is out til monday. More internal screaming. While they're writing the doc a note for me, I realize hey you know what I was here a month ago and there was supposed to be a referral to a spine doc. What happened to that? No clue, no notes. OMG I'll call on monday to follow up.

I truck to the eye doctor to get my contacts. You STILL can't park (but it's mostly paved now on main street). I squeeze into the back lot where some asshole parked their mini cooper in two places during a time when parking is a rare find. I get to the back door which is the handicapped entrance...and it's locked. I had to hobble over the gravel lot and around the block into the front. So I try to make an eye appointment because I got a card on monday saying I'm due for my yearly...and he's so slammed it's now at the end of January. Bangs head on wall.

By now it's way too late to get to the gym not if I want to come home and do laundry. I do go to the library, get some books and find out there is a reading challenge where you get out three books at a time and you fill up a card to win prizes.

I roll up home and start grabbing plants in between using the laundromat. It's supposed to freeze tomorrow night (tonight is only going to be 50) so the plants are going to the greenhouse. AND my clothes didn't dry in the dryer but now it's nearly 6pm and I'm like fuck it. I'll hang them in the house. I'm done with this day 100%

Speaking of my dreams, I can't remember them all but I know that part of it was me, Mom and my BFF from college SA in a city. We were in a car, maybe parallel parked because we were parked. SA and I were both looking up at this corner building some Victorian apartment with this amazing spiraling wrought iron fire escape decorated with gargoyles and large peonies.

SA wanted a closer look so she got out of the car and crossed the street. Suddenly the street was packed with your stereotypical 70s biker gang types some with red bandanas and the others with blue. We knew there was going to be a violent crash. The cops are there forcing everyone out. They wouldn't let us wait for SA to come back. We had to drive off.

We ended up at a bar that had dancers, not strippers, maybe drag queens. I'm not entirely sure. I can't leave here. I need to get back to SA. No one can find their phones. When we finally escape the bar, SA is no longer where we left her. I woke up here.

The second dream was back in my Grandmother's house, larger than it was. Somehow I had stolen these adorable rodents from somewhere. At first they were particolored and pretty. I put them in this tupperware like thing with holes so they could breathe but I filled the bottoms with water. I'm looking at it going, how are they couldn't sleep? They'll drown. So now I have to find new plastic containers. At this point these mice/hamsters/whatever they were, were brilliantly red and blue and solid colored. Also I had apparently also stolen two kittens one black, one black and white and naturally they ate my mice. In fact they opened the tupperware to get them. I had no idea how the black and white one managed it so I ran to save my red mouse but the black kitten was eating it. I tried to get it back but I couldn't. My brain is breaking