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Sep. 11th, 2012 08:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lighterthanairIt's a very chilly morning. After the alarm went off, I immediately hit the snooze button and pulled a second blanket over myself before falling back into a comfortable doze. As much as I don't like cold weather, I do enjoy chilly weather, and all the good things that come with it. I like being able to drink tea or hot chocolate without overheating. I like the refreshing feeling that the air has. I like being able to grab and extra blanket and snuggle under it and enjoy the weight and warmth. I don't like knowing that my lungs will soon be extra-twitchy or that I'm going to have to worry about my crummy ankles on the ice of streets that never seem to get plowed, but for now, in the early autumn, I love it.
Of course, I'm not particularly fond of the pain that seems to be coming along with the weather change. Last June I broke the index finger of my right hand in a rather special way. Opening a door, I managed to get it caught and wrench it to the side, which had the effect of snapping off a splinter of bone and having the tendon actually hold that sliver away from the main part of the bone. A month in a cast, physio, and a warning that I will probably have arthritis in that finger's joints for the rest of my life.
They weren't kidding! It seems the only time that it doesn't really ache is during the late spring and summer, and even then only when I don't overuse it.
But people get by every day with arthritis in more than one joint, and with worse pain than this, so while I may grumble, I don't try to make a big debilitating deal out of it.
In better news, I got approached by author Michael Sullivan yesterday and was given e-copies of his Riyria Revelations books. Considering I've been half lusting after these novels for the better part of a year now, this was a serious highlight to my day, and I am so thrilled right now! I haven't started the first one yet (that comes after I've finished either Wild Seed or Owlsight, whichever comes first), but I've heard nothing but good about these books, and having copies of them gives me bookgasms.
Kind of wish I could spend the whole day curled up with books, honestly, but sadly, that's not to be.
Nervous about next Tuesday. That's when I have my pelvic ultrasound, to see if they can find a cause for all the craziness that's been going on with my period. Whatever they find, I hope it's something that can be treated easily. But what's really got me nervous is the chance that maybe they can't. Not that it's something terrible and incurable, but that it'll involve me taking more time off work, and I can neither afford that nor do I want to have arguments with them again about another leave of absense. But I'll just have to wait and see, and hope it doesn't come to that. PCOS would explain just about everything, so that's what my money's on, but waiting and worrying isn't exactly making it easier.
Happy thoughts. Time to go read a little before heading off to work!
Of course, I'm not particularly fond of the pain that seems to be coming along with the weather change. Last June I broke the index finger of my right hand in a rather special way. Opening a door, I managed to get it caught and wrench it to the side, which had the effect of snapping off a splinter of bone and having the tendon actually hold that sliver away from the main part of the bone. A month in a cast, physio, and a warning that I will probably have arthritis in that finger's joints for the rest of my life.
They weren't kidding! It seems the only time that it doesn't really ache is during the late spring and summer, and even then only when I don't overuse it.
But people get by every day with arthritis in more than one joint, and with worse pain than this, so while I may grumble, I don't try to make a big debilitating deal out of it.
In better news, I got approached by author Michael Sullivan yesterday and was given e-copies of his Riyria Revelations books. Considering I've been half lusting after these novels for the better part of a year now, this was a serious highlight to my day, and I am so thrilled right now! I haven't started the first one yet (that comes after I've finished either Wild Seed or Owlsight, whichever comes first), but I've heard nothing but good about these books, and having copies of them gives me bookgasms.
Kind of wish I could spend the whole day curled up with books, honestly, but sadly, that's not to be.
Nervous about next Tuesday. That's when I have my pelvic ultrasound, to see if they can find a cause for all the craziness that's been going on with my period. Whatever they find, I hope it's something that can be treated easily. But what's really got me nervous is the chance that maybe they can't. Not that it's something terrible and incurable, but that it'll involve me taking more time off work, and I can neither afford that nor do I want to have arguments with them again about another leave of absense. But I'll just have to wait and see, and hope it doesn't come to that. PCOS would explain just about everything, so that's what my money's on, but waiting and worrying isn't exactly making it easier.
Happy thoughts. Time to go read a little before heading off to work!