Okay. That was a bit dramatic, but given how long it’s taking me to get better from the accident, I do feel like I have lost a limb at times.

Sometime on Friday I got a call from my mother-in-law. Several relatives (who I barely know or if I ever met) have passed over. One was my age, actually a few weeks younger. He was feeling tired at work one day and went out to his car for a nap and never came back in. Some of his coworkers went looking for him and found him dead in his car. The other one was the sister of my father-in-law and lived to the ripe old age of 92. The wake was Saturday night and the funeral was yesterday.

I went to my doctor today to get the physical therapy referral. She looked at my back (where the scar is) and agrees that something is ‘not quite right.’ We are both hopeful that the PT will fix whatever it is and that will be the end of it. She also mentioned nerve damage as a remote possibility. I refuse to accept that possibility and will do my utmost to get ever last bit of helpful goodness from the PT referral when I get it. I am to expect a call from the office with the information.Which means more doctor visits and etc. But what are you going to do. I am not a spring chicken any more and as much as I’d like to bounce back as fast as my younger friends, it doesn’t appear to be likely.

I did today’s doodle in the doctor’s waiting room.

And here are the doodles from Saturday and Sunday.

August 22, 2009

August 23, 2009

It seems like a good time to stop and break for lunch. Afterward, I will buckle down on finishing the monthly coloring page.

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So I took my kid to the doctor today. She’s not sick or anything, but she’s worried something is not quite right with her. Given that she has a phobia about needles and she’s willing to have blood drawn to make sure there is nothing wrong with her, I figured it would be a good thing to ease her mind. Frankly, I think better eating and exercise habits would solve 80% of her concerns, but what do I know, I’m only the mom.

Anyway, I made her drive home from the doctor’s office. It’s only a couple of miles, but this was the first time she’s driven my car. It’s a bit bigger than the Scion they used for driver’s ed. She was totally nervous. She drove maybe 25 mph on the main drag through town which has a 45 mph posted. She did great. No hitting of anything. I am relieved. I am the only one allowed to put dents in Casper.

Speaking of Casper, I spent way too much time today trying to locate roof racks I can install on him. I even went down to the Toyota dealership in search of answers. The problem being he has a moon roof and rain gutters. All the after market roof racks I have been able to locate say they work on cars WITHOUT rain gutters. I even emailed one place with the question. I don’t think they read my message since the product they recommended also said clearly ‘not suitable for cars with rain gutters.” Grrr.

I did find an after market roof rack for the model but not the year. I emailed to ask if it could be used on Casper’s roof and if not why not. It is the same car, right? Just a newer model. I have a month to get this all set before it is absolutely necessary to have an exterior luggage option. And I thought this would be easy. HA. That’s what I get for thinking.

I have not been able to figure out why my doddle images won’t show up on LJ. I have been over and over all the settings in both word press and my host. I give up. Folks will just have to surf over to my blog to see the doodles. And sadly, the image link goes to a forbidden error page. So much for easy cross-posting options. I guess it’s a week where the easy way isn’t available. Maybe next week will be better. One can always hope.