Down in the Dumps

Well,

It's been a frightfully long time since I bothered to update this journal. That's fairly simple to explain.

I've been in pain.

I'm so tired of being in pain. It has taken my spirit and wrung it out thoroughly. I am always tired. I am always short of patience. I am never "up" for anything, anymore. So...things like journaling end up at the bottom of a very long list of duties and priorities that are being left altogether untended to.

The medical care has not gotten better. It's been 9 months since my herniated disk was diagnosed as such. I have yet to see the pain clinic because they have only just now gotten round to scheduling me an appointment. I will see the pain clinic on the 28th of September. I hope to have a favorable update at that time.

As I sit here typing this, I am listening to a mouse chew it's way slowly through my metal air register. We have a mouse problem on this base...and, more importantly to me, we have a mouse problem in this house. Like the medical care on base, the pest control leaves much to be desired.

Following up, yet again, is just one of the many aforementioned items on my list of crap that needs to be done.

I just haven't the energy to pursue it right now.

Tomorrow, I will see a new general practitioner. This will the third GP for me since the new year since the first one retired and the second one deployed.

I hope to have something positive to report once this appointment is done and over with.