i seem to be a rather bad klutz. over thanksgiving i had an encounter with my mother's cleaning lady that ended with me having strained a tendon that pulled a muscle (on and off bed rest for a month). then over Pesach after getting off the plane in florida, my back was in hard core pain. i finally got in to see a specialist on thursday, and the nice man prescribed for me muscle relaxer, hard core anti-inflammatory, a patch that has lidocaine in it (the stuff they shoot into your jaw at the dentist to make it numb), and 12 weeks of physical therapy. oh, and we determined that the back pain is possibly related to an injury from 10 years ago when i fell down a mountain. no, really. this was the summer before 9th grade. which is only funnier whhen i recall that i spent most of 10th grade on crutches (once when i fell off the sidewalk). and the year before that, i fell off of a bus.
all of which i can handle (you really do get used to falling, you just have to learn how to do it properly to minimize the damage). it's the expense that goes with it that's driving me crazy. my estimate for this round of fun:
$911 out of pocket (i cringe to think what our insurance is paying in balance to all that).
oh, i forgot the heating pad... $948.
avraham is a VERY good person.
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