The Unexpected

[cornerofmadness]

So I head to school and see that the lights are out at the marathon station and I wonder is the power out. I get to the coffee shop and yep it is. They call over to me that they can't help me because they can only do cold drinks right now and they know I don't do them.

I walk into the school and it smells like fire. Me, joined by my dean and a couple others try to find it. The chemical lock up is alarm blasting for help but it's not on fire at least. Never did find what burnt up in the power outage. Turns out there was a brush fire and they had to turn off the power because a line had come down.

My students were hoping we could go home. We can sit in the lobby with the atrium sun light and do blood pressures, pulses and work on case studies. You're MEAN Dr. Evans. Damn straight.

I ran down to Holzer to get my thyroid scan because 1 month later they still haven't sent it to my doc. It says I have most likely have a multinodular goiter. Say what? I google it because I figure there has to be other reasons other than iodine deficiency that causes this. Female hormones, hashimoto thyroiditis are the other two big culprits. I took the report to my doctor's office and said please call me if she needs me to come in. I need to call my endocrinologist and tell her to take a look too.

I think I'm going to have to start going to the coffee shop on monday (which I have less time) vs friday because that religious fitness group have started taking over the ENTIRE shop, literally commandeering every table. And they pray loudly and obnoxiously and cry a lot about god. No, seriously, crying. It takes all I have in me not to hold up a sign reading Matthew 6:5-6:6

Had to take more of the gabapentin. No pain relief. Dizzy though and nauseated. Which is okay because I can tell the neurologist that.

I forgot to work up my friday fandom stuff so I'll do it tomorrow because I need to go to bed early because I have to get up early to judge the state quarterly science fair. whee.

Comments

[spikedluv]

The burning smell would've freaked me out if I couldn't find it. I'm glad that, at least, was nothing serious. (Until you figure out what burned. o_O)

I hope they can do something about the goiter with meds so you don't need surgery. Those underlying causes you mentioned don't sound great.

OMG, that group would bug the shit out of me. We had a regular fitness group that would show up at McD's on the regular (at least three days a week, after yoga or whatever), and they were so loud! There were usually about a dozen, carrying on at least three different conversations, and talking loudly over each other to be heard . . . Everyone else who was here when they showed up could be seen to roll their eyes or sigh loudly.

I just thought, you could tell them that you're having a tough time writing your gay porn with all their caterwauling, lol!

Sucks about the gabapentin. I'm glad your outlook is, well, at least I have more info for the doc.

I hope you enjoy the science fair!

[cornerofmadness]

yeah I'm not sure what's going to happen with the goiter. It might depend on whatever the hell is causing this trigeminal neuralgia (I don't see the doc until mid April)

That religious group is getting out of hand, when you take over every table...I know they buy stuff so the coffee house isn't complaining but damn

I did oversize my text since my back was to them, let 'em read over my shoulder

[spikedluv]

That feels like a really long time away.

That's ridiculous. For a religious group they're not very considerate of others. o_O Not that I would expect any different.

[cornerofmadness]

It was a lot longer when I made that appt back at the end of Feb.

yeah same. powers that be, don't let me scream Matthew 6:5 at them please

[spikedluv]

Nicely asking, 'have you ever considered following Jesus' advice in Matthew 6:5' wouldn't be screaming. *g* (I'd bet they'd have to look it up. I know I did, but I don't pretend to know more about the bible than I do.)

[cornerofmadness]

Ha I remember it because for my catechism I asked one of the instructors if we're told to pray in private why do churches exist and she got so mad she quit

[spikedluv]

Wow. If she didn't have an answer for that question ready to go, she should have quit.

[cornerofmadness]

I made three quit that year. I was such an obnoxious troll

[spikedluv]

Hahaha! Seriously, though, that seems like a simple enough question to answer. We do it for community and to share in our Lord's love. I don't even believe that shit and I could come up with a reason.

[cornerofmadness]

that's an excellent answer.

One of the others quit when I asked if Adam and Eve were driven from the garden and went to the city of Nod and they were the first humans, where did that city come from? And also were Cain, Abel and Seth's wives their sisters and wouldn't that make us all inbred.

[spikedluv]

It's funny how much of the bible people who swear by it can't explain.

[cornerofmadness]

or even know the bible