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Fri, 07 Mar 2003

Wrist part deux
Well, I just got off the phone with the hand surgeon. They can't see me until April 2nd. I've scheduled the appointment, but the hardback copy of Dave Barry's new book, Risky Business, might turn out to be more useful than Philip thought when he lent it to me...

Posted at: 16:09 on 07/03/2003   [ /diary ] #


Return, Pollen, and Wrists
We got back from the SANS conference yesterday. I was pretty wiped out, mostly because I didn't sleep very well Wednesday..

I received a call from Nicole Wednesday evening before we arrived in Athens. She had been trying to get ahold of Geoff, but his phone was dead. She finally got through on mine, because I finally got cell signal again. Kathy, Geoff's girlfriend, suffered the loss of her brother on Wednesday morning, and Nicole tried to convince us to get back to Gainesville that evening.

Geoff spoke with Kathy, and they decided with the craptacular weather (hail, lightning, wind gusts up to 80mph) we were having, it'd be better to just get a good nights sleep at my Moms and continue home on Thursday.

So, I slept on the couch again. Crappy sleep, dreamt of IP packet decoding and whatnot.

We got in yesterday afternoon. The Santa Fe River was really flooded due to the rains, and the pine trees said "Spring is in the air" and have turned Gainesville yellow. The tires on Gowan's stationwagon were yellow by the time we got to my place from all of the pollen.

This morning when I got up I headed over to our local Doc in a Box to get my wrist looked at. I've had this ganglion cyst on it for about two months, and during the trip to VA it was causing me some minor discomfort.

Dr. Eckell gave me a local and tried to drain it, but the thing wouldn't budge. He told me I could always try smashing it with a book, but I'm not really keen on that idea. They're setting up an appointment with a hand surgeon for me. Although there are contradictary stories, there is enough medical history that suggests hitting it with a book can help, and one place even says that for many years doctors kept Grays Anatomy for just this purpose. Ouch.

Posted at: 15:59 on 07/03/2003   [ /diary ] #


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