I thought Trigger was a horse . . .

Well . . . (Deep subject for such a shallow mind.)

My finger ailment has a name. Actually, it has two of them. There's the sort of generic medical term - tenosynovitis - and then there's the catchy name everybody uses - trigger finger. And the lovely hand surgeon has put me on a third anti-inflammatory to see if this one will help. The catch is that I have to take it for two weeks before we'll know. And if this one doesn't work, there's a few dozen others we can try. And if none of them work, then there's a steroid injection into the tendon. And if that doesn't work, then there is a minor surgical procedure that can be done that will leave my hand unusable for at least two weeks. (The minor part is that it can be done under local anesthetic and takes about 20 minutes.)

~ sigh ~

It looks like I have to live with my finger problem for a bunch more weeks.

~ sigh ~

I can has cheezburger?

~ snarfle snork chortle ~

Something borrowed, something blue . . .

Parachute Wedding Dress,
National Museum of American History

Looking for a hand surgeon

Three weeks on various drugs and no improvement in the hand situation and I'm now recovering from the effects of the last drug - digestive tract, blood pressure, and vision all affected. I stopped taking the medicine yesterday and I'm still sick as a dog today. And my finger has gone back to being almost completely unusable. The drugs were just masking whatever the problem was, not dealing with it. So now I'm on the hunt for a hand surgeon who is on my insurance plan.

And all I want to do is knit. There's a pair of socks I'd like to make.

~ mumble grumble ~

BBC - Eurovision 2007 - Contestants

Just in case you'd like to see/hear them all.

Eurovision 2007 - Serbia

Marija Serifovic, Molitva

Eurovision 2007 - Number 5

Elitsa & Stoyan, Water, Bulgaria

The Hobbit House

Pop or soda?

I'm a soda kinda girl myself . . .

Epilogue | Cherryblossom's dance

Can you believe this wee, timorous beastie . . .

. . . turned into this grooming lion king?

It only gets better

20 million chickens may have eaten tainted feed

WASHINGTON - Federal officials on Friday placed a hold on 20 million chickens raised for market in several states because their feed was mixed with pet food containing an industrial chemical.

Later on in the article they mention pigs as well.

Buy American

Exporter mislabeled tainted pet food ingredient

SHANGHAI, China - The exporter of a contaminated pet food ingredient blamed for the deaths of dogs and cats in the United States may have avoided Chinese export inspections by labeling it a nonfood product, a U.S. government report says.

I feed my cats Purina One. The last time I checked, it was not one of the brands affected. And all my cats are thriving and as annoying as hell, just like they're supposed to be.

The boys are it!

They - Woolly Bear and Stash - just got back from the vet and they are now not the boys they were when we dropped them off yesterday. They don't appear any the worse for wear.

I broke myself

Just got home from the doctor. He thinks I have a very bad and extremely painful case of tendinitis in the index finger of my left hand. I have no idea what I did. I went to bed feeling fine and woke up unable to flex - or otherwise move - my left index finger. I have a prescription for something. I dropped it off at the pharmacy and I haven't gone back to pick it up yet. Needless to say, everything - including typing - is uncomfortable and often painful. It looks like this is my year to have things go wrong.

Oh, well.

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Hippo birdie two ewe, Cheeta!

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