...Barely tolerable, I daresay...

Damn but we were busy at work today!  Just add one thing to the mix and you've got busy, add a chatty pt and chatty Dr and you've got disaster for getting anything done in a timely manner.  That was first thing this morning and there were 3 debands and I did two.  By the time I was done with them, my coworker had done another deband and had to remove a fixed retainer.  I so couldn't have removed that retainer!  My hand would have fallen off.  Unfortunately, the handpiece fell off the tray when I was doing the 2nd deband and the bur poked me in the leg on the way down.  It's not like a hollow needle stick, but still agitates me something terrible.  I cleaned, cleaned, cleaned it and checked the health hx of the kid I was working on.  Bleah!  It's been a long time since I've done anything so careless, but accidents do happen and I've got to be more careful.  It's been a busy week and I'm knackered, even with coworker being back and working hard.  Busy, busy busy is good, but tiring.  I hope this means we'll stop getting lectures about how business being down is a bad thing. 

I've had to order a new brace for my hand/wrist.  I hate wearing the huge/bulky one that makes me so hot I don't wear it as much as I should.  The one I have that doesn't make me hot doesn't support my thumb enough.  Then I added another sleeve/support thing to try at work because the vet wrap just isn't doing much for me there.  Fingers Xed that this helps.  The stand in PT I saw said I was never going to heal if I kept hurting myself, but to stop hurting myself I'd have to stop working completely and not do anything at home for months.  How the heck am I going to do that?  Gah!  I got a compliment from Dr this week.  I had fit some bands for a pt getting a full set of braces and had him check/help me.  I tell him I need help on some of the contouring and he's finally figured it out that that hurts my hand to do as well as I used to.  He told me this week that I may have a sore hand, but I still fit the best bands.  Bwee!  Complements are so rarely given that to get one leaves me speechless.  I don't even know if I managed to say thank you!

Monday was terrible hectic.  Thank goodness I didn't need a pap yet and could get by with only talking to the NP about my weird periods, hot flashes and other hormonal weirdness.  She took me off the micronor pills and gave me Real BCP's.  It's a much lower dose Pill than I took years ago, but it should get me back into a more normal hormonal state.  I mentioned that the base Dr's wouldn't give me BCP's because of the fibroids, but the NP said their practice has tons of pts with fibroids on BCP's w/out problems.  I remember reading in many publications that BCP's aren't nearly as bad for fibroids as previously thought, but the military docs haven't done the same research.  I'm just thinking it's an exciting thing to take care of my hormonal-ness.