So my doctor got fired/quit/leg-go/whatever-the-fuck. Which explains the sudden "vacation" and why I couldn't get an early appointment while the new doctor found her footing. Not sure if it's kosher of the medical office to not tell me this or to just spring the new doctor on me when I stepped in the door, but...
Am loving the new doctor, she immediately did what I'd been expecting to be done a year ago and hooked me up with both pain management (appointment scheduled in November) and a neurosurgeon (appointment scheduled in December).
Writing has been extremely limited to once a week max for a couple hours tops. It's not just the act of typing, it's that I know I'm going to pay for it the next couple days and Tylenol just is not working any more, maybe never did. I look back on what I pushed myself through to finish EVERCHANGING and it's just...what a mad bastard! Did make the exhausted/beatdown Evelyn scenes pretty method though...
So anyway, hopefully the hook me up with a steady supply tramadol next month. I have some I've taken during the worst days and it does a wonderful job taking the edge off, as one would expect. Also blew through one a day for a test run a few weeks back for like...four days? And I felt a ton better and was able to write for four hours a day every other day and that's actual progress I'd be happy with at this point!
After that...surgery of some sort, we can hope. At least a huge steroid needle maybe. Mmmm...spine needle. Kinky.
Speaking of "paying for it", I'm gonna stop typing now and watch some TI 2022.
