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Today I went to Austin Pain Associates and I finally met my doctor after waiting for 5 months for the appointment. Things went GREAT. He tweaked my meds a little bit which should make a huge difference, and of all things he’s very VERY nice. And he believed what I told him! Big change from dealing with the past clinic :P

I am learning to play more games ;)

I beat COD4:MW and BioShock a few days ago..

BioShock’s ending sucked.. Heh, however, COD4:MW’s was pretty good! Don’t worry, I will not spoil it here :)

Life in general is going pretty good, still concerns are up in my head but I am learning how to not worry so much. I don’t know if this learning process is helping yet, though, I sure hope it does. Being a chronic worrier isn’t fun at all.

After the next few appointments tomorrow and the next day, I am finally free for a week! This week has been a mess of appointments and critical ones too, which we could not miss. I will be happy that that stress is lifted from me in a few days.

Peace.

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I’ve made a few small modifications to the blog, such as a new theme.. Then I had to hack up the theme to display dates on posts and use correct text in various areas. Over all I like the nice chromatic scheme :)

I am sending lots of good thoughts, me and Shyla included, to our good friend “Alk” :) She might be in a very bad situation due to her brother, and we both hope she pulls through. Alk, you are strong and you can do it!!

I saw the doctor two days ago and I got various new things and pain meds refilled. I think the new eye drops are called “Nafcon” or something, and also a psoriasis ointment called Dovonex, which I really hope works, as the Diprolene AF cream is becoming not very useful and it is a very powerful steroid. Since I usually get psoriasis on my lower body, it’s not exactly something great to put down there :P

Shyla is coming back from the store shortly so I better go and get ready to see her arrive :)

Laters.

Tagged under alk, blog, chromatic, doctor, dovonex, food, hack, meds, nafcon, psoriasis, scheme, shyla, store, theme by meff
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Well.. yep.

Presidential debate is on right now, and I, of course, am not paying attention. Taking a well needed break from politics for now, it can get too messed up in one’s head.

I got new glasses a week or so ago! I can see so much better! :D

I love them!

Working on the computer has became alot nicer now that I am able to see everything very clearly. It’s pretty nice, if you think about it. Apparently I got so accustomed to my “old eyes” it actually gives me a headache to not wear them and do something on the computer or whatnot.

Haven’t blogged in a long while due to hitting a brick wall in what to talk about.. Yeah, that thing that happens when I call my Mom.. :) I am back and will try to keep this area more up to date for friends and what not (and you crazies that visit ‘just cuz’).

Thursday we have to attend some mandatory classes to keep our housing voucher, which is a load of shit. They sent us a document telling us this and it was about 3 days ago. 3 DAYS ago, before the stupid meetings. I don’t know what they are thinking really with these, but whatever.. It’s going to end up dull and boring and alot won’t even learn a thing from it.

I passed some kidney stones a few weeks ago. Hope it won’t be that bad ;)

Pretty characteristic when you wake up and pee blood, you go “Aye! WTF”. I did too. Anyways, I moaned the night through, sleeping on borrowed time.. And then finally the pain eased up. I am good now, peeing correctly, and no pain in side/back. Phew.

Yeah, I made it w/out going to the hospital.. Take note I did have pain meds, but still, my pain tolerance is pretty high.. Couple times I did want to go to the hospital but I really didn’t, so endured the pain as much as I could and pulled through.

Nothing incredible happened lately, except the pest guy coming out and spraying our whole apartment with nasty smelling shit that makes you cough.. We got locked up in our room for an hour or so, woo :)

’till next time.

Tagged under blog, blood, computer, crazies, debate, eyes, glasses, housing, kidney, mom, pee, pest, president, stones by meff
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So went to my doctor appointment today and apparently I am at the dose of my pain meds where she is “comfortable” with them and denied to raise it by 10mg with the Oxycontin. Ugh. At least she wrote me a few more breakthrough pills, but it still sucks in a few ways. With my 20mg 2x/day I cannot walk too much until it starts up hurting like a bitch. But, I will have to work through it on this dose until I see my pain doc in 2 months.. Ugh again.

I am also back on to taking my testosterone patches.  Apparently my doctor forgot to tell me that I need to be on it for 3 months until they will take a final darw and see where things are — well shit. Nobody told me this at first. I stopped them thinking this is how it’ll always be, but apparently not. I got so pissed off in the doc’s office I started crying because I just wasted 1.5 months of being on them due to something she forgot to tell me.

So meds wise, I’m going to be flying around hormonally now, and in a bit of pain. I am probably not the nicest person to be around right now ;)

All computer systems are running well over here, and I helped my Dad setup ghost on his computer for a backup external disk he has, that seems to be working well too .. Happy days!

I was going to play some World of Warcraft but .. Ah, as it always happens, one of my addons is foobar’d. The Wrath of the Lich King comes out in November, so I better figure out how to get things down before that comes out because obviously I will want to play it. I am at level 62 right now and I don’t know if I can hit 70 that soon… :/

Thats about it, off to watch some music DVD’s I copied.

Tagged under family, personal, spherenetworks, technology by meff
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Not much happening over here.

Shyla has placed a bet on me though — if I cannot tinker with my system to the point of needing a reinstall/change distro, she’ll buy me a memory card for my media player November. I took the deal. So, for a whole month I gotta keep things working on my desktop pretty well ;)

Finally got some time to listen a bit to the new Beck album, Modern Guilt. It’s pretty good :) I still need to take a listen to the new Metallica album “Death Magnetic” .. Don’t know really what to expect from them, because I’ve heard all kinds of mixed reviews on it. Some say it’s shit, some say it returns to the roots of Metallica — guess we will see.

On the server side, I am doing some more evaulations of Cacti, a RRDTool graphing suite. It is one of the coolest things I have used that uses RRDTool. Handy for basically any type of graphing using precalculated data sources :)

Thats about all I can think of right now :P

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