So, just to let everyone know what's been going on with me, my left knee is ****ed up.

When I woke up on Friday, my left knee felt weird. It wasn't painful or anything, it just felt a little off. I didn't think much of it at the time, because my knees are a bit weird anyway (I'm over six feet tall and surprisingly flexible in the legs. Also, when I was 17, I was working fast food when a CO2 tank blew its hose, causing the tank to rocket into my left knee, so it occasionally bothers me because of that). Anyway, Friday felt pretty normal, all things considered.

When I woke up on Saturday, my left knee was swollen and it was difficult to put pressure on it. It wasn't painful, necessarily, but obviously something was wrong. As the day went on, though, things seemed to get better not worse, and I was able to bend it mostly like normal by the end of the day.

Sunday, though, it was worse, and getting difficult to walk. I spend the day limping around the house, and the effort wore me out enough that I had to take a nap around midday, which is extremely rare for me. I should note at this point that I do not have any crutches or anything at home, apart from my sword cane, which I did not think about until later, and did help a bit when I started using it to help me walk.

Monday was horrible. I could barely walk, and by now it was actual pain, rather than just the feeling like it could buckle at any moment. The walk from where I park to the building I work in is maybe a minute walk, and I had to stop and rest half-way there. So, I decided that was enough of that, and I made a doctor's appointment, and fortunately was able to get in that day. The x-ray didn't show much, but at this point, the doctor thinks it is probably bursitis in the knee, although he says that if it is, it's in an atypical location of the knee, and he wants an MRI to see what's really going on. Sadly, I can't get in to see them for another two weeks or so, so it will be a bit before I know anything more.

Yesterday really wasn't any better than Monday in terms of the pain, although I was able to get my hands on a pair of crutches, which has helped immensely. It's too early to say yet, but I think the anti-inflammatory I was prescribed is starting to help a little, so I have high hopes that in a couple days, I will be able to walk like normal again.

Anyway, that's been my week. I hope everyone else is fairing at least slightly better than that!

So, some doctor from upstairs is apparently sub-leasing space to see patients at our office, and one of his assistants came to ask me how we handle x-rays, but the thing is we had had absolutely no official word that he was going to be seeing patients: no days of the week, no pt rooms taken, no protocol (preferences for x-rays &c.), no start date, not even a name. Perhaps by sheer luck, it turns out that the byzantine method of billing insurance meant that it was more of a hassle for him to order x-rays through us instead of his usual providers, so thankfully the whole point was rendered moot (and our workload did not increase yet further), but the fact that management said nothing to us even while in talks with the doctor was ridiculous.

This week, also, I had to more-or-less babysit a new tech who isn't even a new hire. She just trained with us for the week before starting at her actual job, for reasons I don't understand.

I'm actually feeling less tear-my-hair out than usual / I used to, because I've finally started getting together with meatspace friends for the first time in over a year, and also that they (and a few others) dragged me into getting Monster Hunter Rise so we could all play together occasionally. All this socializing is, I know at least on a logical level, helping me to not implode, though as I said I'm still having to fight to get myself to actually do these things. Like, I keep putting off coming back here because of feeling too scared and not wanting to deal with my broken tech.

Although on that note, there's finally been a new driver come out for my graphics card! It... only kind of fixed my problems, though. My TV is recognized as a display again and no longer awkwardly tiny (so I don't have to zoom web pages in to ridiculous levels to read them, anymore), but the sound is still borked.