Begone, Foul Foot Pain!

I got my first four alcohol injections today. Seven more visits, spaced a week apart, and the four nerve bundles that have caused me so much trouble will be dead.

I forgot to rub my toes just beforehand to create a memory of what the sensation feels like. I will never again have sensation in some of my toes. I guess I'll have to depend on the memories I already had.

Yes, it hurt. It's a deep pinching/stinging/bruisy feeling... unique. The doctor was right when he told me the anti-inflammatory injections I had already had were worse, though.

Now it feels like half of each foot is asleep. Cold, tingly, numbish. Apparently even if there is no anaesthetic included, an injection into the metatarsal interstices will often have a numbing effect anyway -- something about the nerves being "spread apart" was what I heard. (My doctor is not big on detailed explanation.) So I left the office walking funny, as I have every time I've visited there. :-)

Uniquities meme

I just made up that word. You can tell, can't you? Okay, okay. It should be taken out back and shot.

Anyway, here goes. Most recently seen in the journal of mactavish.

Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
This CD is either named "The Yang Qin Erhu" or "The Beijing Brothers" depending on whether you look at the face or the spine. The artists are two Chinese men, currently street performers in Edinburgh. They're playing the bamboo flute, a hammer-dulcimer-like instrument called the Yang Qin, and a tall stringed instrument called the Erhu. Most of the music is traditional Chinese music, although there's also the William Tell Overture. It's really nifty.

Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
Fundamentals of X Programming by Theo Pavlidis. It was late on the tail of the X-programming-book market. I own it because I did some technical editing and my name is in it (oooooooooo).

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does:
I doubt I have such a movie. My best shot at it might be "Hopscotch".

Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:
Darn. dceder went with me to Egypt and rfrench has gone with me almost everywhere else I've ever been. Even my Half Dome hiking partner is on my friends list. I'll have to get obscure. A women's restroom in Finland? All right, that's cheating. The inside of the offices of Crédit Lyonnais in Paris? Is that cheating too? Um, okay, the driver's seat of an Army tank?? [edit: Oh wait! None of my FAMILY is on my friends list! Okay, the roof of St. Peter's in the Vatican.]