Ravenous Bugblatter Beast
Deep in thought
- Sep 6, 2005
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Haven't been around here for a while, and have only been able to golf 3 or 4 times since November. The last time I got to play I did finish up with 6 nice holes: par-par-par-birdie-bogey-birdie. But haven't gotten to play since then due to weather constraints and also having begun to do some running to help improve my cardiovascular fitness.
I like the new board look, much snazzier and nicer, I think.
I did get some bad news this morning. Back on the 21st of December while doing a running workout, I had to stop because of some twinging down in the ankle area. Rest, ice, compression and elevation and I was walking almost normally again by Christmas day, but then maybe Wednesday or Thursday last week it began hurting again and swelling up. Went back to RICE, but it wasn't improving so I saw my primary physician on Tuesday. We thought to continue seeing if RICE would help, and he prescribed me to take larger amounts of ibuprofen to help reduce the swelling.
In case those didn't work by next week, he put in insurance referrals to get x-rays and an ortho office. So I wake up this morning, and it's hurting worse than ever before. What had been mild pain was now bad enough that at times I couldn't put any weight on the left foot. So I decided to cash in early on the referrals, and get the ankle x-rayed.
X-rays were done, then I waited while they contacted my primary's office. After about 40 minutes, a staff person advised me that my primary said, "Go to the ortho, and take the x-rays with you."
So off to the ortho's office, I tell the receptionist what's going on, I'm asked to call my primary's office to get the exact referral diagnosis, so I use the courtesy phone. During that, the receptionist says, "Here let me take the x-rays back to one of our doctors so he can glance at them."
I'm chatting with office staff at the primary office when suddenly a wheelchair is pushed up to me, and a nurse says, "Get off that leg, now!"
Well they diagnosis code became obvious then. Fracture. As in a fractured tibia. I'll be in a cast for 6 weeks.
How y'all doing?
I like the new board look, much snazzier and nicer, I think.
I did get some bad news this morning. Back on the 21st of December while doing a running workout, I had to stop because of some twinging down in the ankle area. Rest, ice, compression and elevation and I was walking almost normally again by Christmas day, but then maybe Wednesday or Thursday last week it began hurting again and swelling up. Went back to RICE, but it wasn't improving so I saw my primary physician on Tuesday. We thought to continue seeing if RICE would help, and he prescribed me to take larger amounts of ibuprofen to help reduce the swelling.
In case those didn't work by next week, he put in insurance referrals to get x-rays and an ortho office. So I wake up this morning, and it's hurting worse than ever before. What had been mild pain was now bad enough that at times I couldn't put any weight on the left foot. So I decided to cash in early on the referrals, and get the ankle x-rayed.
X-rays were done, then I waited while they contacted my primary's office. After about 40 minutes, a staff person advised me that my primary said, "Go to the ortho, and take the x-rays with you."
So off to the ortho's office, I tell the receptionist what's going on, I'm asked to call my primary's office to get the exact referral diagnosis, so I use the courtesy phone. During that, the receptionist says, "Here let me take the x-rays back to one of our doctors so he can glance at them."
I'm chatting with office staff at the primary office when suddenly a wheelchair is pushed up to me, and a nurse says, "Get off that leg, now!"
Well they diagnosis code became obvious then. Fracture. As in a fractured tibia. I'll be in a cast for 6 weeks.
How y'all doing?