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[artyartie]

Today has been, overall, a good day. Pain has been minimal and fleeting, though parts of me, espcially my toes, seem to keep blinking out on me, which is odd, but not painful. Thus, not too worried about that.

I think I've hit the useful limit with my primary care doctor. During my visit today, she told me to just keep taking anti-inflammatories. I told her that's what I've been doing, though I don't think I made it clear that on the bad days I've been taking all of them at the same time, to very, very little help. While I can understand why they can't do anything more, as nothing is clinically wrong, it's hard not to be a little frustrated after you have a day you're in so much pain you can barely walk. So they're sending me for more blood work - an arthritis panel and something to see if the muscles themselves are stressed or injured. I'm expecting, of course, it'll come back perfectly normal. And arthritis?! Yeah, I think they're just as confused as I am. My neurologist visit's been bumped up to next Wednesday, which pleases me greatly. Hopefully that avenue will be a little more fruitful - not that I want something to be wrong, but I want to know there's something helpful I can *do* for this, whatever it is.

But again, today was a good day, and tonight I'm actually hoping to get a little writing done tonight, both for tsukimineshrine challenges and another little personal project. Will probably watch another episode of 'The Office' - the BBC version, of course. Martin Freeman, who played Arthur Dent most brilliantly, is in it, and you can see why they picked him - Tim, his character, *is* Arthur. Sadly, the second season, which we're on, is the last, so hopefully the copy of 'Father Ted' I put on hold will come in soon. This weekend, going to both an Italian sidewalk art festival and the cherry blossom festival, so that will be very, very fun. And I will have to drag someone to go see 'Howl's Moving Castle' - and see if anyone would want to see 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' Silly, I know, but it looks like it could be fun.

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[butterflydrming.livejournal.com]

Would you consider acupuncture?

[artyartie.livejournal.com]

I am considering it, though it would mean I couldn't give blood for a year, and that is something I really enjoy doing, oddly enough. But considering just how bad the pain gets, I may make a session with the accupuncturist at our rec center right by my place, and give blood again next year. Not sure yet..