Why It's Better Not to Count

I've always loved counting.  This was particularly annoying to my family on vacations to Florida, when counting mosquito bites and lizards was a favorite pastime.  I was so cute...hee.

In the vein of counting things for no good reason, I came up with some figures for my recent medical drama, starting with surgery on 3/9:

• 1 surgery
• 4 specialists' opinions about my craptastic recovery

Hmm, the number of specialists is really subjective.  I didn't count two RE fellows or the urgent care physician.  Now, let's add up appointments:

• 10 doctors' appointments
• 1 ER visit
• 1 urgent care visit
• 5 PT sessions
• 3 acupuncture sessions
• 3 abdominal massages
• >10 phone calls with doctors

I am so sick of talking to people about my health or lack thereof.

I am intentionally not tabulating the number of therapist or psychiatrist appointments because I'm afraid to count them up.  I don't feel like I'm going all the time, but there are a lot of appointments when I look back at my calendar.

I've had a few diagnostic procedures:

• 1 CT scan
• 4 ultrasounds
• 5 urinalyses

These numbers are only since March.  If I go back farther, say between November and March, I had 2 saline infusion sonograms (3D sonos) and 3 hysteroscopies.  How about some drugs:

• 10 pain-related medications
• dozens of trips to the pharmacy

They've memorized my name and birth date at the pharmacy.  And now for the really depressing ones.

• 71 sick hours used at work; total >10 days
• >$7000 spent for medical care so far this year

So.  Depressing.  Maybe counting is for the birds.

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Mr. Detour is out of town for 9 days visiting his parents and I panicked before he left, worried that I would spend every night feeling lonely in a quiet house with no one but the dog to talk to.  So I did the reasonable thing and made plans with every friend in a 30-mile radius, leaving me zero time alone to do critical things like recharge and do laundry.  And sleep. 

But it's been pretty fun.  This week, my social calendar includes:

• watching a kid's triathlon that my niece and nephew raced in
• eating two brunches with friends (breakfast food is THE BEST, am I right?)
• visiting a friend's house who recently adopted a baby
• watching a movie (Magic Mike, which was pretty dumb but had good eye candy)
• receiving a massage (social because a good friend is my massage therapist)

Phew.  No plans tonight, though, so I will be crashing.

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My blog is having an identity crisis.  I'm going to update my header but haven't figured out how I want it yet.  Hence the uber boring one I currently have.  Blogger doesn't provide a lot of creative options.

I also changed my blog name from "Detour" to "Detour to Motherhood."  Not a huge change because "to motherhood" was already in the url.

Hope you guys have a good week!