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Had a doctor's appt today to check on the status of the breast surgery site.

Good news:
Doctor gave me new pain meds! (the old ones had acetaminophen in them and acetaminophen gives me a headache) My new life as a drug dealer can begin now! (That was a joke.)

Site is healing very quickly.

(Sort of) Bad news:
Site is colonized with Pseudomonas, so I need to switch to soaking the gauze in a rinse with a little bit of bleach in it. Yeah, seriously, bleach.

The pharmacy didn't have the special rinse so they're ordering it and it should be there tomorrow.

I had to wait an hour and a half, in the little exam room with nothing to read*, for them to look at me. And my appt was at 8:45AM! It's not like I scheduled it at 4 after they'd be running later and later all day!

So I meditated. A lot.

*I forgot I had a book in my bag.
I blame the pain meds.

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Then I went on a spree of Getting Errands Run. I went to the pharmacy/grocery store, the medical supply store, and the gas station.

Called my home health nurse to tell her what was up with the doctor's appt.

I called Family Practice to inquire as to the whereabouts of my freaking medical excuse; apparently it's been written and sent ... somewhere. They couldn't tell me where, which was extremely unhelpful.

I also called the Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy people since they hadn't responded to my latest email, and found out that she's out of the office until this Monday, which would explain the lack of response.

Now I'm going to roll some cigarettes, play some Sims to relax, and in about 2 hours, I'll mail VE's netbook and Chance's birthday present.