Monday, February 24, 2003
Good Grief~~~I think I am an experimental specimen. This is probably not a bad thing though. I went to see The Great One (that neurosurgeon I got the hots for) this morning. After showing me my MRI and X-rays of last week and watching me walk on my heels and then my toes---gently holding my arm so I wouldn't fall on my face---he said I probably shouldn't consider surgery at this time. Yay!!But wait a minute. I'm here because my left leg has a life of its own and hurts like hell, I tell him. We talked (or I should say, HE talked) about this dilemma. I tell him, just order me an epidural injection like last year when my right leg was kaput and now it's OK. Well, it's not that simple, apparently.
The month of March my dance card will be really full. The Great One had one of his staff arrange appointments with -- a Neurologist, just as a consult -- An EMG, a test which involves electrocuting the entire leg -- The Physical Medicine surgeon at the Spine Care Center for ?? -- Maybe the flouroscopic epidural on my leg tucked in there somewhere -- all culminating on April 7th back to The Great One. From then on it's anybody's guess.....maybe The Great One will leave his wife and move in with me. Betcha that would make my leg and everything else feel much better. Ha!!!
posted by 11:30 AM
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EEeeeeewwww~~~Ernest Borgnine and Andy Rooney. Two old curmudgeons, right? Saw Borgnine on "The District" and Rooney on "60 Minutes", both within two days. Both men have eyebrows that defy gravity. Both men's eyebrows are untended fields of grey matted weeds. Their eyelids are totally gone and the brows are inching inexorably over their eyeballs. In the not too distant future they will both need seeing eye dogs to get around.For the love of heaven, Ernest and Andrew.................have your eyebrows cut, shaped and styled before it's too late. I implore you. Or at least stay off camera until those of us watching you can do so without recoiling in horror.
posted by 11:04 AM
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