Thoughts on a Wednesday, but now it's Thursday!

Can't sleep tonight. Nor could I last night. It is almost 1:30am and I am so tired. I'm not even up doing paperwork!!! Believe it or not, working 3 days a week has proven that I can keep up with the paperwork when it is in smaller doses. I have loved working just those 3 days at the school, but I'm afraid I will be sad when I see my June paycheck. It will, however, most likely be more than I used to make in the summer program work.
I saw Dr.Jones, the orthopedic surgeon this morning. The man is insanely busy. You always have to block off half a day when you have an appointment. I'm so glad I had done that this morning, even with a 9:00am appointment scheduled! I did not get called back to a room until 9:35 and didn't get to see him until almost 11:00. But it was well worth the wait. I agree that they should try to process the appointments differently, but when he is in there taking time with you and being kind, it is easy to forget about the time you waited to get such excellent care. He is perplexed how the symptoms continue to return following the facet injections...now returning sooner each time. It is for the spinal stenosis. Go look that up if you care...I'm not sure how to add a link like my smart children. Narrowing of the spine..mine is in the lumbar or lower back.
I have lost the ability to do these things without pain: walk, bend, squat, kneel, put underwear on, lay in my bed in ANY position, and walk up and down steps. I can do all of these except squat, but they are with pain. That is crap at age 52!
I have always been so physically active and ABLE that I never hesitated to move furniture, haul big bags of mulch or whatever around, etc. But now I find myself thinking about my limitations and I simply hate that!
So the doctor gave me two epidural injections of steroids into the most painful spots he could locate. The search was more painful, believe it or not, than the injections. God bless him, he continued to apologize with every pain he caused. How many doctors do that?
He gave me more pain pills and anti-inflammatory pills and ordered a bone scan. Not sure what he anticipates to find there. But he's smart and I trust him. He is doing his best to avoid surgery and I appreciate that.
So I'm tanked up with Lorcet and using ice packs to tolerate this right now. And since it appears that it wires me up a bit, here I sit...in moderate pain but wide eyed!
The Razorbacks won tonight 4-3 in a 13 inning game in the College World Series. Awesome....and I stayed awake for the whole thing. I've caught up on Oprah, Ellen and Jon and Kate. I guess I'm going to pull out my book now. By the way, did you know that birds continue to sing, rather loudly, in the dark of the night? I always thought they slept too. Not. The last two nights they are just going to town out there. Maybe it's a sign. Not.
Full day tomorrow at work, then off to Fayetteville to shop with Greg, then off to Rogers to meet with Mary Beth for a "function" at a home that IO Metro decorated...and the 27 year old CEO lives in when he's not in one of his "other" homes. Then I (maybe we?) will meet up with Glo and Connie on Dickson. They had already planned to go to a concert at the Art Center. Not sure who. Then Friday morning the three of us are lined up for facials with a pregnant Haley, one of Rachel's good friends. She will probably pass out when she sees my face, since the steroids gave me a bit of swelling and shiny redness! I look ravishing.
Good heavens...I didn't mean for this to go, but I have rambled. But you apparently hung in there and read it all. Now you have to comment or order me a wheelchair.