jbailey | Medical Update ; iTunes

This past week has been a really good ride on the medical front. As of yesterday, I've dropped the 1g of Tylenol I was taking first thing in the morning. Pills-wise, that leaves me with one Ultrum (Tramadol) at night before bed. Sleeping on my surgery site without pills still causes me to wake up in the middle of the night. Next week's goal is to drop the prescription drugs completely, except for an occasional one on the weekend when I'm doing a lot with Leif. As far as I know, it's okay to take Tylenol and have an occasional glass of wine - I'm going to check with the pharmacist - but there's a winery tour that I'm signed up for late next week...

I'm also back to Physical Therapy and have appointments booked for twice a week over the next few months. My PT doesn't seem to think that I'll need to stay that long, which would be awesome, but my hopes aren't high on that. We keep discovering new things like "Hey, if you had triceps, you could do this exercise that I want you to. But you don't, so do tricep pull downs for now." From not doing a whole lot, I find I have to ask other people to do things like open jars, or open heavy doors still. We'll see how it goes. My lifting/bending/twisting restrictions won't be lifted until August and then the use-more-than-4kg-weights exercises can finally start.

I'm biking around the campus at work a lot now. I'm getting braver with going out on the streets, and think that I'll probably be ready to try taking my road bike for a trip between home and work early next week. I'd originally hoped for this week, but I'm just not there yet.

In other news, I'm hoping that someone can point me to a freer replacement for this: I've wanted Angie to see the movie Wargames for a bit, so I plugged the Windows laptop into the TV and the stereo, rented it off of iTunes, made it full screen and we enjoyed the movie. I'm quite fussy about DRM when it comes to music or movies that I've purchased, but I'm less fussy where I've contracted to watch something for a day. Netflix has an on-demand movie service like iTunes as well, but neither of them seem to run under Linux or Wine. I suspect I'll need to find the person who was hacking wine to work with iTunes and see if (s)he likes occasional shipments of beer. =)