Purl, Interrupted

catching up

so where to begin on catching up on a month's worth of blogging.

why not talk about the weather, which is a state passtime. fall is basically over here. it was beautiful but way too short, which is pretty much the norm here. the changing leaves were really pretty in the woods behind our house -- lots of golden leaves, very dramatic. now most of the leaves are off the trees and it's the ugly season before the snow.

i hear it's snowing in minneapolis today, whereas we have had a week of unseasonably warm weather. the early fall was cold and rainy, but chinook winds brought us a couple of windy 60-degree days this week that were a really nice change from the cold and dark.

and boy has it been getting dark. which may be one of the reasons i haven't blogged in so long. after i got back from seattle i really struggled with exhaustion for a few weeks. i'm now starting to shake it off, but we're losing something like 45 minutes of light each week, so it's been a rough adjustment.

speaking of seattle, i went for a work training (the national institute for trial advocacy deposition skills workshop, which, for any knitting lawyers out there, really rocks) and also to get a second opinion on my shoulder. that was an interesting experience. the surgeon i saw disagreed with my doc here about the basic diagnosis -- both agree the joint is ruined, but seattle guy didn't think it was the bone-death disease, which would mean that i could have surgery to fix it immediately.

seattle guy said the only way to confirm the bone death diagnosis would be an MRI, but he didn't believe that was the problem. so when i got back, my doc here (who i think was non plussed about having his diagnosis challenged) ordered an MRI. and (drumroll please) this round goes to alaska orthopedics, as the MRI shows bone death.

the good news, i guess, is having a definitive answer. it's also good to have a baseline so we can go back in a few months, do another MRI, and see how it's progressing. the bad news, of course, is the whole bone death thing. plenty painful, and can't be treated for an indeterminant period of time. so ... the shoulder news is basically no news, or at least no progress.

meanwhile, to satisfy peter, here is the news on tk: he's teaching a full load of classes at UAA, still trying to pretend it's fishing season, biking to work in the rain, looking forward to ski season, getting killed in fantasy football, becoming a better poker player, still asking to buy a gun, and still not allowed to buy a gun.

so that's the update from the last frontier. i'm going to try to be better at blogging, and maybe even at knitting, although it may have to wait until trial is over.

Posted by cmandala at October 12, 2006 08:42 PM