When it rains...

Maggie is still doing her weird walking in circles thing in the kitchen, but Matt put forth a new theory Thursday evening.

He said, "What if she's gone mostly blind in one eye and is walking in circles in that area because she can't find the way out?"

It actually makes sense. She's circling in the space enclosed by the cabinets, stove and dishwasher in the kitchen, and seems so disoriented, but once she's past, does okay. If that's what it is, I wouldn't feel good, but better, you know? If we help her by redirecting her, she can usually get going again.

The dryer is making a funny noise. I think it may be the timer, which is easily replaced if they still make the part. But the dryer was purchased in 1996. It may be time for a new one.

We're trying to refinance the house, though. And the appraisal company just took $475.00 out of our checking account.

They're supposed to show up Friday morning at 10 to do the appraisal.

With that money gone, it leaves, well, not a lot. Certainly can't afford to buy a new dryer right now.

Let's not forget that we still owe for Eric's crown and for the recent extraction of Lyssa's other two wisdom teeth.

And although this is worthy of a rant, I just don't have the energy right now... our fucking legislators in Salem have just screwed the entire state with their 'transportation package', so we're about to have more money blatantly stolen from us. Assholes.

Tomorrow is pay day, but all that really means is a temporary infusion of cash.

A great deal of it is spent already.

We need new tires. They're expensive. I don't want to drive far on the ones we have now.

Mom and Dad are having their 50th anniversary this summer, and I'll need some money to get to that, too.

My hours will be short over the summer, and I think they're about to get a LOT shorter, because I'll probably be recuperating from surgery for part of the summer.

My doctor called Thursday afternoon with the results from my MRI.

She said I have some scar tissue in the back of my knee from an old injury (only thing I can recall is an injury that happened when I was 16. Fell with my leg bent under me and then someone fell on top of it. POP.

I was on crutches for a couple weeks, but that was it.

And then, to add insult to injury, I have this:

Posterior Horn Tears of Medial Meniscus - Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

More knee information (probably interesting only to me, and only at this time) Medial meniscus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Imagine how excited I am.

Dammit.

As I've mentioned before, we have insurance from DCS.

Doesn't Cover Shit.

We have an extremely high deductible and end up paying quite a lot out of pocket for any medical treatment we get, so who knows how much this will end up costing.

The sole advantage of having insurance is that one can at least obtain medical treatment without having to jump through a million hoops and possibly be turned away after all that work.

Now I have not seen the orthopedic doctor yet, and maybe this can be fixed without surgery, but my regular doctor didn't seem to think so.

However. Paying the difference between what my insurance covers and what the MRI place will charge me is made, well, not easier... but somehow more justified because they actually found something wrong.

Nope, it's not just all in my head. I would have been SO PISSED had they looked and found nothing wrong.

But how can I work? There's no way I can manage to walk around the zoo for six hours with a group of children. Or sweep floors or move big lunch coolers from the kitchen to the cafeteria to serve lunch to half the population of our area.

I can sit. I can limp. That's about it.

I can't take Vicodin because it messed with my BP, and I can't take Percocet because it makes me sick.

I guess that leaves Tylenol 3 with Codeine... but I don't have any.

The knee wakes me up about four times a night and I end up getting up and sitting in the living room at the computer sometimes.

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