Yesterday, I had an appointment with a new hand specialist in Denver for my carpal tunnel.

My adjuster was able to find someone close that I could go to for a follow up for my wrist and elbow. I made the appointment for 1:15pm yesterday, showed up about 1:12, filled out my paperwork then sat there for a good 30 minutes before I was shown into an exam room.

The nurse came in about five minutes later to talk to me, ask questions and tell me what the next steps were and that the doctor would be in soon…yeah right. It was another 10 minutes before he came in, seemed pleasant, told me I looked familiar, spent about 7 minutes talking to me, tapping on my wrist, asked me a few questions and then walked out, really? The nurse came back, told me what the next steps were and then I was done.

I was at the office for an hour and spent less than 20 minutes talking to anyone medically trained.
What happened to bedside manners? There was a time that doctors would spend time with you, make you feel special, like s/he cared. Don’t they make movies where the “country” doctor still makes house calls, knows all their patients by name, is someone the community knows and gathers around? Isn’t that called bedside manner? Seems like a lost art.
The nurse and receptionist were very nice, the doctor was nice enough, but seemed like he had somewhere else to be, didn’t leave me with warm fuzzies, oh well…

So…the next step in my carpal and cubital tunnel treatment is nerve testing. The nurse is reaching out to the workers comp insurance company to get approval and then I will get a call from a testing place and we go from there. I’ll keep you posted.

Did you get the movie reference?

So, in Georgia, there was an over population of deer, or at least it seemed so. You see them everywhere, raccoons, squirrels, even saw a few armadillos in the last few months I was there.

In Colorado…gophers, bunnies and coyotes, wow! I haven’t seen a deer yet, not saying they’re not here, just haven’t seen any. I’ve seen a few squirrels, but what I have seen a “crap ton” (I know I’ve used this phrase before, just for emphasis, no offense meant!) is bunny rabbits! Now, I saw bunnies in Atlanta, but not like this! When we walk to the movies, a vey populated area by the mall, we see several different groups of multiple groups of bunnies. I’m talking 5-6 in one area at a time. They don’t stick around when you head towards them.
They’re breeding like, well, rabbits! The other day, one crossed in front of my car, like a squirrel that is trying to cross the road!
(Check out the picture I attached, only 3, but you get the idea)

Another animal that is prevalent…gophers. I’ve heard there are gophers in Georgia, just don’t know if I ever saw one, but I’ve seen a bunch here in Colorado, that’s it, just seen a bunch and it was cool. Apparently, they will talk to each other and you.

The last animal, coyotes. Apparently there are a lot of them and they can be a problem. Enough that there are signs along the side streets and in neighborhoods. We saw one the other night in the gym parking lot, down the street from our apartment while walking home from the movies, could have been the same night we saw the cluster of bunnies! DCM was awesome, moved me to the side and behind him, I felt very safe, especially as the coyote watched us walk by for a bit. That was my one and only experience so far with coyotes, and I’m ok with that.

Needless to say, the cats, even though they were never outdoor cats are even more indoor now!

So, as I stated, Gophers and bunnies and coyotes, oh my!

Today, I participated in that time honored and most loathed tradition. Well, loathe to most women…I went bathing suit shopping.

Guys, feel free to tune me out on this on, you may never “get it”, my girlfriends will.

Summer is here, I’m not exactly sure where my bathing suit is, from the move and unpacking, it could be in my 10×15 box, so, I decided it was time for a new suit, especially since there is a pool not 100 yards from my apartment, and I am done working every day at 3pm (5pm Eastern) I need to partake in some sun and fun in the pool.

So, off I went to Kohl’s to look for a suit, they always have good deals as I am discovering. I didn’t see anything I wanted at Walmart and Target is next, who knows maybe I’ll find…the one, or at least the one I can tolerate right now.

Bathing suit shopping, unless you are a Victoria swimsuit model, is not the most pleasant experience. There are things to shove, move and cover. Luckily I did not have to experience my hell in front of other people, no Loehmann’s Department store changing room! Or Syms, a nod to my NY/NJ friends. One giant room with lots of mirrors and the only divider between benches is a narrow board that has hooks on it. Lets get undressed and pretend not to look at each other while discretely trying to cover up the bits we don’t want seen and it’s not easy to cover cellulite in certain areas!

So, I picked up a bunch of choices and headed for the dressing room. Now, don’t, for a moment, think that it was easy to select what I did. I wanted a tankini, for those of you not in the know, a tankini is a two piece bathing suit..basically a bikini with a tank top. It’s still a 2 piece, and it covers what needs to be covered.

There are so many choices; long, short, straps, tanks, strapless, tied at the neck, skirts, shorts, bikini bottoms.

There I am in the dressing room, in front of three mirrors, oh gee, fun! I pull this part and push that part, move this and try to conceal that. Show cleavage, don’t show cleavage, be respectful, look good.

I think I tried on at least 15 different tops and 2 bottoms, and one full suit that was really cute, black dress like thing with polka dots, I’m not ready for the full skirt thing. One bottom won out, 2 tops, for now at least, need to look at myself at home, where the lighting is better and there’s only one mirror and I can try them on again, no pressure.

I might try a few other places this week, summer is here and it will be here for a while, besides, I’m going to need a suit for the Bahamas this winter, right?

So, in conclusion, for all my friends out there, I feel your pain, know that you’re not alone and one day, they will in invent a suit that you can spray on and it flatters you just right! Until that day, us girls have to stick together (who else is going to tell us our suits are riding up and something is about to pop out!)

Wil Wheaton used to play nice guys.

Did you know that Wil Wheaton is 41? I didn’t, I still see him as Wesley Crusher and a kid, I guess he just suffers from the Ralph Macchio syndrome, always looking younger than he is. So, when I was watching Star Trek, TNG [The Next Generation for those of you not in the know], he was playing a young boy and teenager, I didn’t realize we were so close in age.

When we first saw him in Stand By Me, where first garnered attention, he was a sweet, fresh faced kid, Gordie Lachance, just trying to fit in where he could and stand up with his friends and he played his part so well. The next time we paid attention was on Star Trek, Wesley Crusher was a sweet, inquisitive, caring, striving to be the best that he could be to represent his family and impress Captain Jean Luc Picard [sigh, don’t get me started!].

I haven’t seen him in a lot of things since Star Trek, but he does have an impressive resume, as evident by the listings on imdb.com, but the few things I’ve seen him on in the last few years, Leverage, Eureka and The Big Bang Theory, all he does is play a mean, vindictive, conniving, unhappy, tool, yeah, that’s about right. The only time you see him smile is when he is beating someone at something, cheating, conniving or just being plain ole mean. You kind of want to throw something at him or punch him on the nose.

So, maybe he didn’t want to be typecast, but I still have to ask…what happened to Wil Wheaton?

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