yesterday i went to the doctor for a follow-up appointment about my foot. i’ve been walking on it a little bit (emphasis on a little bit), but it’s still pretty painful and still colorfully bruised. the doctor looked at my foot and poked at my bruises with his finger. “how would you rate your pain on a scale of one to ten?” he asked me.
“well,” i said, “i guess it doesn’t really hurt that much if i don’t put weight on it, but when i try to walk it’s, i don’t know, a five or a six?”
“a five or a six,” he said. he looked through my chart. “and last week you said your pain was … an eight?”
“yeah,” i said, “but it’s a pretty arbitrary scale, isn’t it?”
the doctor said that going from an eight to a six in one week isn’t much improvement, so he wants me to have an MRI tomorrow because he thinks something might be cracked or torn in there. so, to summarize: i couldn’t work last week, i couldn’t work this week, and since i won’t know if my foot’s broken until next tuesday, i can’t work next week, either. if my two-points-a-week scale of pain still applies, i’ll still be a four next week anyway, which is quite a bit of pain to have while waiting tables.
(i wonder what i’d be on the complaining scale. or the boredom scale. or the “i haven’t seen anyone except the doctor and the dog since monday” insanity scale.)
and it turns out that when you can’t work, you can’t make any money, and you go completely broke. hey, who knew? anyway, to compensate for my lack of income, so that i can buy food and pay the electric bill and stuff, i’m having a jewelry sale over at i like beads. it’s not a sale you can see with the naked eye, because all i really did was go in there and change all the prices. but the sale is there, trust me–some of the stuff costs half of what it used to. there are some new pieces, too.
the sale breaks my heart a little bit, to be honest, because i’m so fucking proud of the jewelry i’ve been making recently. i think i’m getting really good. i think i’m selling myself short. i think i don’t have a choice.
so please, check out the site. see if there’s something you or someone you know might like. purchase it. take advantage of the sale so that the dog and i can eat with the lights on. that’s all i have to say except:
– the holidays are only two months away
– i gift-wrap for free
– if not for me, do it for the dog. she’s way cute.
update: wow, you guys are wonderful. you’ve bought almost two-thirds of my inventory. i’m swamped with orders! it’s the good kind of swamped, though, like if the swamp were made of candy, or beer, or really cute shoes. keep up the good work.
thank you.