So had my first appoitnment

Physical Therapy.
Nareej will be my physical therapist, had me do this light exercises and I'm suposed to do them once a day. No biggy, cept for the fact of laying on my back on a hard surfaces hurts my butt bones. He had heard stuff that Dr. Cronin was a good doc, well I told him she may be, but her office sucks ass. But he and the nurse at the OBGYN said that Dr. Lisa Hunt was a good doc, the nurse even used to work at the office or something. on the PLUS side of that, got another free sample of seasonale, so in 2 months I save 50 bucks! Damn 3 month birth control costs, but so worth it!

Got a webdesign job! so in about 3 weeks I'll have $700 from that, plus a possible nother one for a Corvette club. Only be like $250 but still money. Waiting for another guy to call back about 2 tours. Thinkin maybe he won't know, that'll suck, but could get lucky. Been making my tours in CD for the lady in Sonora, but I should have charged her more, maybe her 12 CDs for $20, of 4 different properties, nice money, for me it was relatively easy, but Grif was like, its seriously expensive to get it done at Kinko's so you should have charged more. Guess next time I'll tell her it was a little more work than I thought and it'l be $30 for 12... but always makes me feel bad. I know I need to charge more, but I had money and I want to make sure I get it and not have people go else where, ya know?

Bayvin is gonna be Sleeping Beauty for Halloween. I wanted her to be a pirate, there was the cutest little kid pirate costume. But no, at first it was Tinkerbell, but then she decided Sleeping Beauty. When she tried on the dress, she was shaking she was so excited and happy. It was too funny.

Nya seems to be a three legged dog. Dunno if it'll be permanent, but she attacks Niri and Nox just fine, so she must not care that the other leg doesn't work.

At least she's doing good!

She's just adorable. Pictures were taken by Grandpa Scotty.

got a new doc.

My new doctor is effective Oct 1st, and I have an appt with her Oct 4th. We'll see how this works out.

My first physical therapy appointment is on thursday the 29th. I also have my annual woman visit that day too. So that's fun, at least the laying on the table with legs up is first, just incase I get really hurt at physical therapy. Either way both are gonna hurt.


Oh I haven't posted on this thing yet. On Sunday, Nya came in one dog door and didn't come in the other, Grif went to find out where she was, found her at the bottom of the stairs right inside one dog door and she was whimpering. He asked her to come and she hopped for a second and then fell to the floor. We decided to give it a couple hours see what was going on if she would get up again. Didn't seem to be her hip area, more like her knee was hurting. After about 2 hours we took her to the vet. The vet is open on sundays but the visit costs more, i found that a bit odd; $10 more. They wanted to take x-rays and charge $70 per and they wanted 3. We said no way, what our are options... well you can give her aspirin and she might just get better on her own, some dogs live just fine with 3 legs.

So Nya Lemon (new middle name) seems to be doing better, she went out both dog doors already, though decided to come back INSIDE to go poop. She's hopping along fine, but still spends most of her time on the floor. Even wrestled with Niri.

The strangest thing. Nya was laying on the floor, head and body facing AWAY from Niri, all of a sudden, Nya stood up and whipped around to attack Niri. Full PROOF that dogs and cats definitely DO communicate. Niri obviously said something to get Nya's attention. Just too funny.

So not sure if Nya broke something or tore a tendon, with either of those the x-rays would have told us how much more we needed to spend. Her leg is still pretty limp, so won't step on it, but seems to move it a little, so not sure, maybe could still be a sprained knee or pulled muscle or something.

really need a new doctor

She finally looked at my report. Said, yep she's got scoliosis and give her a referral to a physical therapist. That's it, can't even get an appt with her til friday, at which point I was really upset cause they wouldn't even let me see another doctor in the practice. Ya know just to make sure that is what's causing my pain. Since I was so upset I had the hang up on them because they kept telling me that she wasn't gonna be in the office and earliest I could do is friday.

So Grif had to call them back to get the referral. And they said that how I acted (being upset is a bad thing) was grounds for dismissal, and which point he told them, well she already has been looking for a new doctor. And now I get to close my eyes and point to find a new doctor in town. That'll be fun.

So I get to be in constant pain for a really long time, if not forever, isn't that wonderful news. And I have to hope to god I don't get a cold cause sneezing spasms my back so bad, its unbearable.

need a new doctor.

Wednesday, bout 10am, I call my doc's office, leave a message that the Relafen isn't working and that I want to know what my xray report says. Receptionists say ok, she'll give you a call back.

Wednesday 4pm, "oh sorry, dr cronin isn't in today" "well that would have been nice of themto tell me at 10 this morning when I called, don't ya think." "sorry ma'am, she'll get back to you by noon tomorrow, I promise, but we still haven't gotten your x-rays back."

thursday noon comes and goes, thursday afternoon: "why hasn't Dr Cronin given me a call back?" "well we haven't gotten the x-rays back yet" *give up*

Friday - *after 3 phone call attempts, press number for doctor calling for a doctor* "why is no one picking up the phone, I'm trying to reach appts" "sorry ma'am, call back and someone will pick up the phone" "are you sure about that?" "yes ma'am" *calls back*
"I'm in a lot of pain and no one has called me back and I've left tons of messages for Dr Cronin" "sorry ma'am we haven't gotten your xrays back yet" "why the hell not, why is this taking so long?" "sorry ma'am, i'll have dr cronin take a look at your chart and get you another prescription" *couple minutes* "what pharmacy do you want it called in to.".....

I'm wondering why the hell the radiology place can't get their act in gear so I call them up

"modesto radiology" "yeah I'd like to get some information on the x-rays i had taken" "transfering" "hello?" "yes I'd like to know why my doctor hasn't gotten my x-rays back yet" "oh doctor cronin doesn't get x-rays" "what?" "oh well she does get reports and we sent them tuesday" "what? they're telling me they haven't gotten them yet" "what? It was sent, let me check... yes sent monday and tuesday let me fax it again, its faxed"

*crying at this point*
*3 more attempts at calling the doc's office, get Bayvin in the car and drive down there*

"I have tried many times to get you guys on the phone and now I have to drive down here to actually talk to someone, you guys just got my x-ray info sent to you, someone needs to give it to dr cronin now to look at it and she needs to get to me now" *person that actually talked to me before* :pissy tone: "i already called in your prescription, what do you need" "i don't need a prescription I need to know what's wrong with my back! Could you please get the report to dr cronin" "cronin had a family emergency" "jesus fucking christ" (yes, i actually said that)

*drive down to Modesto Radiology and pick up my report and make all the people there worry because i'm crying my eyes out, and they're a little shocked that Dr Cronin just left*

My Report:
Lumbar Spine, 5 Views:

Clinical Information: Low back pain.

Findings: There is mild dextroscoliosis. The lumbar vertebrae have normal height and alignment. There is no spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis. Pedicles are intact.

Impression: Negative save for mild scoliosis


I called this morning and they gave me more crap that I can't be seen the doc has to take a look at my chart and they even told me she hasn't gotten my xray info yet... still...Which I reminded them, well you should have 3 copies, one from monday one from tuesday and one from friday, and if you need it I got one. And I would like to be seen today, nope, can only leave a message, and dr cronin has to look at it, well doc still has a family emergency and is only in the for the morning (how she can have an emergency and be in is beyond me) and I asked for another doc to look at it since she can't... well I'll leave a message for them and they'll get back to you. I reminded her that I called 3 times last week and nobody EVER got back to me, and she was like "i promise" and i begin to cry "yeah well the lady before promised me thursday before noon and i didn't get anything, i want a doc to look at it now or i have no choice to get another doctor and sue you guys" "i can only leave a message" "fine" *hang up*

*beginning to look for a new doctor*

still waiting.

Well the Relafen hasn't seemed to make any difference. I haven't done the exercises because they hurt! And massaging doesn't seem to do anything, doesn't hurt anymore or less when it gets pressed on. It's 10:10 and I'm suppose to get a call by noon, if I don't I'll have to call up and bitch. I seem to be doing that a lot lately. Damn people that can't get back to me!

x-ray

The doc thinks I have some wearing in a disc in my lower back and either I had an injury that I don't remember having or it could be hereditary. I'm having an x-ray done today and hopefully know by tomorrow or wednesday... til then she's got me on an anti-inflamatory and she wants me to do back exercises, which kinda pisses me off, cause it'll hurt, unless of course the Relafen works... so lets hope it works.

Turns out Grif's headaches might have been cause by his eyes... simple enough solution. He's been off the medication and not wearing his glasses and it seems to work, his eye that's lazy went from being -1.75 to -.25 which means ALL of his glasses are way too powerful for him and since he doesn't use that one, he didn't notice. And he should be getting a new pair in a week or so. Yay! AT least one of us is better.

ouch

Still having back problems. Don't get to see the doc til monday.

had to spend $230 bucks on the pets yesterday. I was expecting almost $100, took Nya and Niri to get boosters and rabies vaccine. However Nya has mites... Demodex Mange to be exact and is now on antibotics and we had to do a special shampoo and this tactic dip stuff on her last night and have to do it again in exactly 14 days.

So there went all the extra money I made this month so far, but we did get Bayvin a new comforter and sheets and Grif and I had a very good date, went to eat at Chili's and watched a movie while eating Cold Stone and it was just a rather expensive day. And I got some new bras and new shirts for Grif and a bunch of socks for Bayvin, a new belt, 2 new pairs of shoes (since I left the other ones out and a certain puppy decided it was her job to destroy them... course Grif was the one that left the doors open to let her do so, can't leave her unattended in the house, argh)

However I should be doing another 2 tours this week and waiting for another guy to call that should have at least 2 tours for me to do. So should be close to another 400 bucks this month just waiting, so this month as been the best work month EVER. If only it would stay this way. $1000 bucks extra a month would be AWESOME! Though I'd like to just have $500 a month at least, that would be good.