Timelies all!

Gonna take the car to Jiffy Lube this afternoon. Hasn't been 3000 miles since the last time, but it has been 6 months.(Yeah, I don't do a lot of long-distance driving)

So I finally was able to make it to a doctor, and wish I had been able to sooner. Turns out I didn't get the same old, same old diagnosis, but that I had an infection in a joint that spread up the leg. At least that's the conclusion they reached, but since going on the antibiotics there's a noticeable reduction in swelling and the mobility of my knee has improved a lot. There's also a lot less pain, but since they also prescribed Vicodin I'm not sure how much to trust that, though I'm sticking to the minimum dose to be safer. I think I may be able to make it to work tomorrow!

Yay Frank! Always good to get a diagnosis of something acute that treatment can provide immediate relief for.

The thing that gets me about New Orleans is how much tourists don't see of the city. It has been (and is) a city with a lot of troubles. Corruption not the least of it, and most tourists wouldn't even know that.

I have been to the city many times over the year and it startles me the contrast between the drunk college kids (etc) in French Quarter and the rest of the city.

Always good to get a diagnosis of something acute that treatment can provide immediate relief for.

SRSLY! I was afraid it was going to be another "keep doing what you've been doing" which really didn't seem to be cutting it this time. Which is part of what kept me from getting to a doctor ASAP. I'm not sure I physically could have, but that psychological component was definitely an inhibitor.

Yay for getting it checked -- that infection can affect the rest of you for sure, so getting it nipped is a big win. It's so tough when chronic problems mask something like that -- if you're used to toughing it out, you're less inclined to bother a doctor when you "know" what the answer will be.

(I speak from my own experience -- given my IBS, I could have cholera for a week before I'd think there was much out of whack.)

It's so tough when chronic problems mask something like that -- if you're used to toughing it out, you're less inclined to bother a doctor when you "know" what the answer will be.

Bing! Bing! Bing! Thank you, Theo, for articulating exactly what I've been feeling since yesterday. It's something I'll bring up with my PCP when I do the follow up with him this week.

I'm glad you went to a doctor, Frank. Not only is it good that it's fixable, but also it could have gotten a lot worse.

Newt just said that Romney is too dishonest to be president. It's the charred remains of the pot calling the kettle black. Heads exploded across America.

Newt just said that Romney is too dishonest to be president.

I actually think this is the case.

Obama for a second term!

Newt and Romney are both lying liars who lie, but Newt would say the sun sets in the east, and then tell people who challenged him that he'll provide proof after the debate. Then he'd say "sets in the east" was taken out of context by the liberal mainstream media.

Or, as you said, Obama for a second term!