Espressa is fine; I'm fair 'nuff

Saw the endocrinologist this morn. It went fairly well. She's gonna run a gabillion blood tests on me... hormones, pituitary function, full thyroid panel, fasting glucose, insulin (to see if my glucose is norm because my insulin is high), and a bunch of other stuff that I already forgot. She clearly thinks I'm diabetic or pre-diabetic - but only because I'm fat and, in most people, the two run together. I don't agree with the suspicion but there's no harm in checking.

I'll probably have the blood drawn on Tues. I have to take some kind of prescription pill the night before (something that will provide a definite yes/no result for Cushing's, which she thought was a long shot but wants to rule out) and she implied that tomorrow was not a good time to go in. I was gonna do it Mon but remembered that Sun is brunch - so there's a 50/50 chance of mass alcohol consumption 24 hrs before the tests and that didn't seem wise. I'll be PISSED if, once again, everything comes back "you're fine". But, if nothing else, for now it was nice just to be listened to. Follow up appt is in 3 or 4 weeks.

After that appt, I rushed 15 miles to my chiro and got cracked up one side and down the other. He spent a lot of time adjusting my knee - enough that I was cussing at him. But when all was said and done, it could bear weight again - so he did good. He recommended heat therapy which made me happy cause everyone else has said cold (to reduce inflammation) but that was completely counterintuitive to me because cold causes the whole joint to lock up and feel worse. He also confirmed my guess that feeling like I keep hyper-extending the back of the knee joint is probably due to favoring the leg for so long that the muscles have shortened/tightened up a bit and get pissy when they're suddenly forced to stretch. Dr. Sal is helping me find a GOOD knee brace to wear during the day (the one I bought is CRAP). He also said no more pole climbing - but I said I wasn't going to follow that advice (just yet) cause it's taken me 21 months to get here and I'm not ready to stop.

Dr. Sal was supposed to give me a referral to some holistic practitioner in Laguna, someone to do mumbo-jumbo treatments for all that ails me, but we both forgot. I'll have to email him about that.

On the way home, I stopped for coffee & a sandwich and noticed a nice nail salon with no customers. So I got a pedicure. I'm not thrilled about my color choice - but I think that would have applied no matter color what I got. The designs came out really nice though and I liked the salon. Too bad it's about 8 miles from home.

Finally, at 4:30 I took Espressa to the vet, where she got a fairly clean bill of health. She lost a tooth at some point but it's healed just fine. She needs a dental cleaning but nothing is super bad. Her recurrent eye infection doesn't appear to be anything serious - probably just allergies. The doc said she's in super good health - especially considering her age (12). YEEAAAAHHHHHH!! What a relief!! I love our vet!!

I've been exhausted since I woke up, increased by the relief of the back cracking, so now (at only 7p) I'm headed for a crash & burn for the rest of the night. Peace out.