I Feel Like I Need Permission

Sometimes I just don't want to do anything painful or inconvenient. Usually, I go out of my way to inconvenience myself - always looking for the hardest route, the most troublesome pathway... but right now, I just don't want to do. I just want to be.

( Me bitching about my knee. Again. )

Oh, yeah, Rob broke his toe, confirmed by the doc this morning, with much exclamation over the swelling & fading bruises. And no, there isn't anything we can do for it, really - ice & ibuprofen. He's got to baby it. When you break your littlest piggy, you're just kind of stuck with it being broken.

Reading more of Coyote Medicine. Apparently, Coyote got bored once & together with Silver Fox, made everything on earth appear by singing it into existence. He was still bored after everything was here, so he told Silver Fox he was going to see if he could create something smarter than himself. That's how we got here... being smarter than Coyote ain't saying much, but Silver Fox knew all along we'd be trouble.

Still normal

Went to the hematologist today - no leukemia, no lymphoma, I'm still perfectly normal. I may start donating my white blood cells, though, since I've got more than I need on a regular basis. It's not even due to allergies - according to my chemistry, I don't have allergies or inflammation or a recent injury to my bone marrow system (the surgery, not exactly an injury). At least now my doctor can only pester me continually about my cholesterol ratio. Hah!

It's amazing what they can do with blood these days. Used to be it was all just whole blood & you never knew what you might end up when you got a transfusion. Unless a pregnant woman might have the rH factor, they don't blood-type people, unless maybe they still do it as routine pediatric care. I don't know (well, I used to know, I don't remember) what my blood type is - and no one cares, either. Now if you have to have a transfusion, they draw your blood & type it at the lab or in the emergency room, then they go through a detailed check-system with the blood they're going to give you where it's typed once at the storage facility & run through typing & instant analysis at the facility that's going to give it to you - once when it's received and once by the assistants to the surgeon or doctor who gives you the transfusion. To store a couple of bags of your own blood prior to surgery, the local blood banks charge you to draw it & charge a storage fee - like about $400 a month!

Jody got her results back - she hasn't been poisoned & her pain killers aren't causing her seizures. She got something called a 'neural EEG' to trace the problems in her nervous system. In a way, it would have been better if she did have arsenic poisoning or something like that because then they could fix the problem. If she's got something like MD or cerebral palsy or has developed epilepsy... that's something that can't be fixed - it can only be medicated.

I really should be working on my webpage. I've only got two more pages to do - the 'Entertainment' page & the 'Directory', other than some minor tweaking here & there. I decided that if next semester's 'Introduction to Programming' is another java class, I'm going to drop it & take the A+ certification for hardware. I was thinking about taking 5 classes, but I already did that this semester & ended up dropping two classes. I seem to be finding anything else to do with my time. I also have a math quiz and questions for chapter 12 in my Environmental Science. What am I doing instead? Watching Star Trek: Voyager re-runs... blogging... loading new pictures in my screen saver program... In other words, I'm not doing what I should be doing and I'm not really doing anything else, either. I'm screwing off.