Oh yea, I have a disability blog

I know I haven't updated this blog in forever, but I've been really busy with my other writing. I said last time I was considering writing more, I didn't intend to neglect this in the process

Anyway, an update.

My knee is healing amazingly well. I saw the orthopedic surgeon last week, and he was blown away by how well I'm doing. He figures I only need another six weeks of physical therapy, and I should be off the cane completely. My insurance company, however, is of the opinion that I'm done with physical therapy now, and that I get no more visits. Not because they think I'm already better, but because they think I'm not getting better fast enough. So, yea.

What I'm apparently going to have to do, since I might not be able to go to PT anymore, is do even more at-home exercises. I don't really want to start walking around the block, but it looks like I'm going to have to.

At any rate, I'm getting around my apartment without my cane pretty much all the time now, and I've started trying to walk around outside just carrying it. This is something I haven't been able to do since 2001. I still hurt, but much less than before.

My psychiatrist lowered my neurontin to try to help with the constant high side effect I mentioned in my last update. It helped a little bit, but not much. However, the nerve pain came back, but not as bad as it was before. Awesome.

Still having mood swings. As usual, I tend to manic. No change in my OCD, either. But I never expect either of those to change.


Right now my bipolar is Slightly Depressed.

Right now my pain level is 5.