My old printer died about a month or so ago and that meant no printing, scanning or copying. I finally decided that enough was enough and sent my sister to buy a new one. She got it and I had to install it, that took me about 30 minutes but well worth it. So now I can print, scan, copy, fax and network, whatever that means, with the Epson Workforce 315 that only cost $69 dollars and with taxes the total price came out to $76.81 which wasn’t that bad. I still have to set up the fax but I’ll do that tomorrow or the week after, hey I do need a break you know.
The time is 11:15 am and it is a beautiful sunny day in Los Angeles. I woke up, got me some coffee and took a shower and after almost two months I finally shaved. My mom and dad have been telling me to shave for a while but I never listened until now. In the meantime I am going to drink another cup of coffee and enjoy the rest of my day.
Reality tv is back, ok not really back, just some of the shows that I watch are back. Survivor started last week and the Amazing Race, the best reality tv show on tv in my opinion, started this past Sunday. In Survivor I am going to go with the Heroes but so far they are doing pretty badly. In the Amazing Race us kids always choose teams, I chose mine and in the first episode one of my teams was eliminated and just like that I am in the hole already, it’s going to be a long season.
I have been trying to find out the names of a couple of songs in 2 commercials. One is an Acura commercial for their new ZDX, in the commercial you a girl’s face and can hear a pretty nice drum beat. The other commercial is for the the New Kia Sorento, some of the lyrics are as follow, “how you like me now, how you like me now.” I have been doing some research online but I can’t find a thing about them, so far. I am going to keep checking because I like them in the commercials and would love to hear the full songs, stay tuned.
Today was, and still is, such a beautiful 80 degree President’s Day here in Los Angeles. I woke up very early, at about 4:30 am, turned on Sunshine, surfed the net for a while, turned on the tv, got me some coffee and spent most of the morning relaxing. Noon time came and that meant that it was time to eat some delicious carne asada that mom made, thanks mom.
After eating I thought about maybe going shopping for a new printer because my old one broke down about a week ago but I then decided not to. I did dust the PS3 and the tv and some other stuff before I decided to call it quits for the day as far as work was concerned.
It’s almost 5pm here as I write this post and as soon as I finish it I am going to once again relax and enjoy the rest of my day.
As you know my doctor appointment was cancelled yesterday so I had to re-scheduled for today. I went early today and got my MRI results and wouldn’t you know it, I have a herniated disc and that is what is pressing on my nerve and causing that lovely pain. He then told me that the physical therapy should help with that but if it doesn’t then I am going to have to go see a specialist. In the meantime I have to do my exercises and take my medicine and relax and that is exactly what I will do.
I haven’t been sleeping good for the last couple of days so this morning I was in bed trying to go to sleep when the phone rang, my doctors appointment had been cancelled, that was at about 7 am. Then somebody starts knocking on the door, I didn’t get up to see who it was and I honestly didn’t care. Then the gardener came, the dog started to bark, the cats started to meow and all I wanted was some peace and quiet. I am not going to lie, I was pissed but after thinking about it for a few I just laughed and decided to get up and get some coffee, the end.
It was a rainy day today here in sunny Los Angeles and even though I wanted to stay in bed I had to get up early to go have my MRI at 10:45 am. I get there and wait and at about 10:30 I am told that they are ready for me. I go and then I am told to put on another dress, didn’t like that, and then go lay on the the table. I was then given earplugs and told to relax, take a nap if I wanted and to not move.
Then the fun part started, the bed slides into the machine and all of the sudden I am in the confined space of an MRI machine. I am not going to lie to you, for a few seconds I thought that I didn’t want to be in there but that soon passed when I took a deep breath, closed my eyes and relaxed.
Half an hour later it’s all over, I then asked the guy if anybody had ever told him to please get him/her out of there and he answered, “all the time.”
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “therapy”?, well if you are like me then total relaxation comes to mind, that is what I thought.
First visit to the therapist, I was evaluated, asked a lot of questions and didn’t do any exercises. I just got ultra-sounded, that a word, and a heat pad that felt oh so good. I went back home and was looking forward to the next visit. For a while I thought that maybe the new therapist didn’t know what he was doing because when I went to my first evaluation last year I did a bunch of stuff that left me real banged up.
Second visit, so there I was really excited about round two, ultra sound and a heat pad and I thought that was going to be it. Then in came the therapist, she told me to do this, do that and ordinarily that wouldn’t be such a problem but doing this and doing that hurt like hell. Then she took me to another room where they have all these torture machines, she once again told me to do this and do that and when it was over I was almost dead. It was right then and there that I remember that there is a “physical” part to physical therapy and soon forgot about total relaxation.
Third visit, I start with some exercises and when I am finished with that I am already half dead. Then I get ultrasounded and then the therapist comes in and does her thing but this time because of the previous exercises everything just hurt that much more. When she is finally over I am completely dead and not even the second heat pad of he day helps. I make my appointment and go home, leaning against the wall, taking a break every couple of steps. When my sister and nephew saw me they had the audacity to laugh but not me, I just wanted to get home, take my meds and go to sleep which is exactly what I did.
I am so looking forward to my next appointment.
