Saturday, November 28, 2009

Thankful

The past few weeks have been exhausting. Between a hellish pace at work and my joints, I have been beat. Too beat to even think about having something witty, useful, or at all worth reading to write. And not hardly the energy to read anyone else's blogs or answer emails.

For Thanksgiving, hoping to contain the general family mayhem, I had everyone over, knowing that the lack of TV reception would have them all eating and leaving in short order. Yes, I am devious that way. It was tiring getting up early when I so needed to sleep in, but rewarding to see my vegetables being eaten, eat my mom's turkey and ham, and celebrate a new step-nephew's inclusion into the family. And then, today I slept. And slept. And slept. I think the muscle pain may finally be wearing down.

I saw the ortho Tuesday, told him I wasn't going to do the PT or see the neurologist again because I think his diagnosis was wrong. And he agreed, encouraged me to essentially keep being bullheaded, and said we will just take things as they come. I'm thinking I may be past the defensive medicine stage with him, so that is good.

The wound on my back from the removal of the carcinoma seems to be healing OK. It has stopped oozing, and the skin around it, that had started to break out and blister from the bandages, has calmed down and is looking mostly normal. The scabs are sort of half on and half off, and still itchy, but at least I can lie down on my back now when I sleep. Another good thing.

Most importantly, I have the desire to research again. Finding the time to do it will be the trick, but my efforts at learning Japanese and my interests in pop-culture and disability issues are all sort of coming together at the moment. My money, time and employment issues are the same dragging forces as ever, but my interest is back. And maybe even some of you will want to know what I come up with, despite my lack of useful affiliation with any institution and absence of peer reviewed publication? Or maybe I'm just at a stage where I no longer care about those things, and will just do what I want.

7 comments:

Terri said...

Well, I for one am glad that you are coming to a place where feeling lousy isn't overwhelming your life as much (and I hope that you feel even better as you go.) I will be very interested in what you come up with--always am.

yanub said...

Thanks, Terri. Really, really, thanks.

FridaWrites said...

I'm greatly interested in the Japanese as well as pop-culture/disability issues, so type away.

I love the new profile picture.

yanub said...

You noticed it! Yay! The icon maker who did this one did a huge number of Astroboy icons. I love Astroboy, so I was hooked. If you want, I can point you to the site.

Cool! I am glad to know other people will be interested in what my brain comes up with. And if you already have a prior interest, and aren't just being polite, it will be more fun to share.

FridaWrites said...

The intellectual part of me is deprived!

yanub said...

Well, Frida, then I am going to do my best to un-deprive you!

e said...

I am interested as well...I'm also glad you are feeling motivated and less exhausted.