State of the Justin: slightly used, but otherwise okay

[jducoeur]

Wound up down at the doctor's yesterday: no crisis, just a sudden influx of stuff that I needed to talk to her about. No surprises found -- in all cases, she confirmed what I thought was going on.

First was the chest pain. (I need to learn a way to say that on the phone that doesn't cause the receptionist to panic.) As expected, that's just a recurrence of the long-standing reflux problems, presumably brought on by a recent excess of Starbucks and post-Thanksgiving overeating. In the interest of curbing the Starbucks habit, I'm introducing some sweeter teas with milk in the morning. (Chai with Mate makes a fine substitute when I'm craving coffee.)

Then there were the ears, which was really why I went in: as expected, they desperately needed a professional cleanout. (I do my best to maintain them myself, but about once a year they need to be dealt with by the doctor before I completely lose my hearing.) As usual, my range of hearing quite suddenly went up by about an octave as soon as that was done, with a sharp crispness to sounds that had previously been dulled -- msmemory described it as the aural equivalent of the "Leaves!" effect that most glasses wearers are familiar with.

More annoying was the sudden foot pain that started yesterday morning; she confirmed, as expected, that this was the return of my plantar fasciitis. This is annoying mostly because I haven't been abusing myself particularly -- the first time it happened, it could be attributed to several months of Buffens practice, but I haven't been doing anything so vigorous lately. As usual, though, she quickly pinpointed the problem, scolding me for my well-worn shoes and pointing out how the pattern of wear indicated that I need more arch support than they could provide at this point. Switching to a new pair this morning makes a remarkable difference, and leads to me suspect that the bigger cause of the problem has probably been working at home -- I've been spending much of my days in bedroom slippers with precisely zero arch support.

Dance practice last night was a washout, below critical mass. A bit frustrating, but not astonishing given the weather and the lateness in the season. Given that I couldn't dance myself anyway, I didn't mind all the much, but I'll send around a note next week to make sure it looks like we'll have enough folks...

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[eudociainboston.livejournal.com]

Jon and I were going to come but Mary's was slow (and we were late)and by the time we had paid the check and got out of the restaurant it was 8.30. Plus joy of joys, I began to run a fever at dinner and am now officially ill and so is Julian. Sick babies are so much fun :(

We will be coming next week- if there are not enough for dance, then Tosci's perhaps?

[dorotheasca.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that your doctor's appointment turned out well.

Sorry about dance - I wasn't feeling well and so Ethan and I skipped out.

I love the "Leaves!" comment - I remember that feeling the first time I put on glasses, lol.

[jducoeur]

Sorry about dance - I wasn't feeling well and so Ethan and I skipped out.

'Tsalright. Given my foot problems, I wasn't all that horrified at being forced to just go have ice cream.

I love the "Leaves!" comment - I remember that feeling the first time I put on glasses, lol.

I get the impression that most people have that experience. Certainly it's one of my most vivid memories from when I was 13 years old: it had just never *occurred* to me that you could see the leaves on trees until that moment...

[serakit.livejournal.com]

I did the "Leaves!" moment too when I got my glasses. Suddenly everything had edges...

[redsquirrel.livejournal.com]

*grin* For me it was "Buildings!" because I got my glasses at Beth Israel and there were darn few trees on the Southeast Expressway home to Stoughton. But I remember spending the first part of the drive marveling at all the buildings. I was six years old and all I'd ever seen from the car windows was this greyish blur.