Friday Wrap-Up

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We successfully navigated the bone scan yesterday ... TWICE! Why twice? Well, Cam got through the first scans (and yes, this is Cam's actual bone scan) just fine. We got to the hospital, they shot Cam up with radioactive dye, we patiently waited went shopping for 2 hours and they were done by noon. The tech walked us out and we headed home. Just as I walked in the door, the cell phone rang. Apparently there was a lack of communication between the tech and the radiologist and an entire scan sequence (3D of the midsection) was missing. We had to go back.

Remember, I live in the "country." It's a 40 minute drive each way to the hospital. I was irritated, but I just couldn't seem to muster up anger. Cam and I went back, smiled, laughed and got two complimentary meal passes at the hospital cafeteria for our troubles.

Ummm ... thank you, but ...

I should get the results of Cam's scan early next week.

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Did you hear what Jet Blue is doing? They have an All-You-Can-Jet pass available for just $599. From the website:

Enjoy unlimited travel with our All-You-Can-Jet Pass! For just $599* you can take JetBlue anywhere you like, as often as you like, from September 8 to October 8, 2009. Use your All-You-Can-Jet Pass for business, for pleasure, to visit your favorite cities or to meet with a client. You might as well just do it all! With more than 50 cities to choose from, and for just $599, it's a deal you can't pass up.

Oh how I wish I had $1200 (Cam needs one too) and a month long vacation! I would be on this like ... well ... like flies on shit! Look at all of the cool places we could go - think of all the bloggers we could meet.

Ahhh ... dreams ...

And no, Jet Blue did not pay me to plug their deal (maybe I should have started with NOS like Matt Man did), but if they wanted to give me a couple of these passes I would not be too proud to accept them!

Ahhh ... BIGGER dreams ... if only I were a mommy blogger (go read Jay's post on this - it's really funny!)

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And...here we go!

1. When will I ever learn?

2. True Blood and Hung was were the last good book I read or movie I saw or tv shows I watched.

3. Everything has its beauty but everything can also be made quite ugly.

4. Baby back ribs and apple slaw is what I had for dinner.

5. I'd like your opinion on Michael Vick for a post I'm planning tomorrow.

6. Far away from mean and judgmental people is where I want to be right now.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to vegging, tomorrow my plans include visiting with friends who are stopping by for a BBQ and Sunday, I want to relax but have far too much to do to even consider that as an option!

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Friday Wrap-Up

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There was a bit of an issue in the cyber neighborhood yesterday - Twitter went down for quite some time - and it wasn't due to maintenance, at least not planned maintenance! Seems there was a "distributed denial of service" attack launched by someone who ... are you ready for this? Was attempting to silence a lone Georgian blogger who criticized the Russian conflict. You can read more about it [HERE]. I'm using a UK news source so y'all *know* it's true!

So ... I was a little surprised of how odd I felt not being able to "connect" with folks on Twitter (I follow primarily news sources and people I know). It's not like I couldn't have sent an email, or visited a web site, but somehow that just isn't the same. And before anyone makes any smart ass remarks, yes! I badmouthed Twitter (and FaceBook) and now update both regularly. Jay was right ... just this one time though ...

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*Poor picture quality disclaimer - these were taken with my 2-year old, 1.3 mega pixel LG Chocolate phone*

I spent yesterday afternoon, with Cam, at a Sports Medicine Clinic. He suffered what appeared to be a mild lower back injury a couple of weeks ago. I took him to our family Doc, she prescribed an anti-inflammatory - and told us to come back in a couple of weeks if it wasn't better. At Monday's practice, Cam aggravated the injury again.

After determining this was a hyper-extension back injury, the doc ordered a full set of x-rays. Apparently it is not uncommon to see small fractures of the vertebrae in this type of situation.

The good news is that there weren't any obvious injuries visible in the x-rays. Space between the vertebrae looks good. There weren't any clear fractures. The "hmmm" side is that it looked like one of his vertebrae might be pushed forward about 1 mm, and because of that, the doc has ordered a bone scan. They'll inject him with radioactive dye, make him sit for 3 hours, scan him for an hour, and produce 3-D pictures of his glowing bones.

There is a possibility of a stress fracture - or soft spot - in Cam's spine. Now, I'm not terribly concerned about this - definitely not in full-out panic mode. I realize that, because football is such a physical sport, whenever there is an injury, doctors will want to err on the side of caution, and that is what this is really all about.

So, today I'll be navigating my insurance plan, seeing what hoops I'll need to jump through to make this happen. It's a rather expensive procedure and the doc told me I might get some resistance from the insurance company depending on our coverage level. Who knows? Maybe next week I'll be posting about the wonders of implementing a National Health Care Plan!

Pffftttt! Nahhhh ....

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Has anyone ever seen one of these before? The place we had to go for Cam's x-rays was also an Urgent Care Clinic. You know, one of those minor injuries/illnesses - night and weekend hours kind of places. In the lobby was a GIANT fish tank (seems to be a requirement of doctor's offices these days) and?? Yep! It's a prescription vending machine.

I have no idea how this thing works, but it was the first time I've ever seen anything like it. Anyone have some change? I'm thinking I'll order up a dose or two of Valium if we ever go back there!

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