Doctor’s Orders
I went to the doctor’s yesterday. I wanted to discuss a few things with her. One of these was my medication for depression. I have been feeling pretty good the past months, and wanted to try and lower my dose. I don’t want to be on medication for the rest of my life. On the other hand, if I have to be to function, then I guess that is better than not being able to face the day. When I say I have been feeling pretty good, I mean that I haven’t had any bad bouts of depression or panic attacks. I have had days that I was feeling down, but they were just “those kind of days” rather than real depression. By now I know the difference.
Anyway, the doctor said she wanted to see me on my current dose for another 6 months. She is a lovely doctor, who is also a Christian, and I trust her advice. She is not keeping me on the same dosage for no reason. She did explain it, but I can’t remember all the technical details. She checked all sorts of things and my blood tests I did a while ago had all came back fine. So I am healthy and relatively sane, but still need to keep going on my medication. I can live with that a bit longer.
However… ah, there is always a however…! I have had a very sore elbow for a while now. I thought I had knocked it on something and it just wasn’t getting better. She quickly diagnosed it as tennis elbow, and asked me what I have been doing with that arm. I told her knitting and computer stuff. She said it wasn’t the knitting, it was the computer, and wanted to know why I was on the computer and whether it was important! I told her I did all my school stuff on there, and blogged, and surfed…. as to which bits were important….???? The school stuff I guess…… isn’t blogging and surfing the net also very important?!
~Sigh~
I am under strict instructions to only use the computer if I have to, and to do some exercises with my hand and arm.
Oh well. At least I can still knit. 