Too many books!

OK, not really. But I've ended up in the middle of several simultaneously again. *sigh* When I was a kid, I was sooooo bad about this. I'd have five to ten half-finished books on my bedside table, all stacked, open to the page I was on, on top of each other.

I'm a third of the way through Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis, just finally finished the last few entries in The Emperor of the United States of America and Other Magnificent British Eccentrics, started glancing through Structures: Or, Why Things Don't Fall Down and accidentally started reading that (I'm a few chapters in; it's fun stuff -- sort of "engineering for non-majors"), and have been sidetracked from all of the above by Strangers in Paradise, where I'm currently halfway through Pocket Book 2. Given how engrossed in SIP I've gotten, and how quickly they read, comparatively (they're graphic novels), I think it's likely I'll finish these off before making serious inroads into finishing the rest. Haven't decided exactly what to say about SIP yet; sorting out the flashbacks and such gets a bit confusing, so I'm still putting stuff together, and will likely go back and reread once I'm finished with all five. I'm definitely engrossed, and by turns deeply sympathetic to the characters, and deeply frustrated with them.

Got back my quiz and my exam in class, did fine on both. I can't believe there's only a couple more weeks of class. The extra time in my schedule will be nice, but I'm going to miss class. Next fall will be Chem. I have to figure out which one I need to take, and I'm sort of struggling about it. College Chemistry is a survey course for health sciences folks. Basically a "non-majors" course. In one year, it goes through what the real, in-depth Chem course does in two years. It's really the only sensible choice for me, but argh... And it's useless as a prereq for further chemistry, should I want it. I'd have to go back and take General Chemistry I and II from scratch, and that's just going against my "learn it right the first time" desire.

Also, for folks I've been on IM with -- mine is locking up randomly. Not sure what's up, but it's thoroughly annoying. I may vanish or not reply to stuff because of it.

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1st physical therapy appt...

Well, my schedule's going to be extra-nuts for the next few weeks until class ends. Right now they want to see me at least once, and ideally twice a week. The appointment went well; my physical therapist is fine to work with, although not someone I'll actively look forward to making small talk with several times a week for an hour. Ah well. I need her to be competent, not my best friend.

Oh, random note, forgot to mention last week the doctor's office called, and had me add a Vitamin D supplement, since apparently I'm Vitamin D deficient, as well as slightly anemic. So, random easily fixed thing. Hard to say whether it was having any particularly noticeable affect on me or not, but strong bones are good, and I'd like to maintain them.

In the physical therapy session today, which was mostly just evaluation, we focused primarily on my hips, since those are my major functional complaint. Apparently I have a great deal of hypermobility in terms of rotating my hips outward, but not inward. We're going to try to strengthen and stabilize there, and try to stretch my hamstrings and calfs, which are extremely tight. On the very positive side, she worked my hips through every possible orientation with a good deal of pressure, and didn't feel any grinding or catching, so that speaks well of the integrity of the cartilage in the joint. Yay! Now we just have to figure out what is causing the intermittent pain, locking, and popping that I have.

I've got a couple printed pages of exercises to do daily to work on all this between sessions, and she wants me carefully watching for pain in my hips, and what triggers it. I think I'll just add a few more columns to the "health tracker" spreadsheet I'm already keeping. It's a good daily reminder to do my exercises, too. Especially since I hate blank spots in a column that should be filled, which'll be extra motivation to be consistent. Might as well make my little obsessive tendencies work in my favor!