Days in Transition and a New Doctor

It's been a weird week for me so far. Monday I went ahead and worked from home, since the lab was in use, and I had everything I needed at home. And, anyway, I wouldn't have gotten in until noon because I had a physical in the morning. Because of the stupid state of Maryland dropping my health insurance from their offerings, I had to switch insurance, and get a new primary care physician, which was a big hassle. But I won the PCP lottery (which sounds suspiciously drug-related) and really enjoyed my appointment Monday morning, actually. He gave me some ideas (and samples) for dealing with my migraines, took my blood, did a neurological function test, and did an electrocardiogram, which was weird.

That's something. When he hooked up the stick little things to my body, he started asking me about what I do, and what my research is. Y'know how doctors like to make small talk when they're about to do something unpleasant to you? Yeah, that was when I asked him what exactly this test involved. Luckily it just involved sitting for a minute with stickies on me, but who knows? It could have involved zapping me or something.

But I'm a healthy individual, so the whole appointment was uneventful. Oddly, he didn't ask about my chafing marks, but they have an innocuous explanation (7-mile runs in the heat) so it didn't matter.

I've been trying to take a little more charge of my health lately. I tried going high-raw a month ago, but failed because I hit a big stress wall and craved cheese like you wouldn't believe. And cooked food. But I'm trying again, with dinner being my only cooked meal this week. I'm not doing great with the raw lunches and might add a little cooked food next week. I found an awesome vegan veggie burger made from wheat gluten a few weeks ago, so I might try that.

Writing is plodding along, very slowly. I did go through and write synopses of my chapters a few days ago, and then revised them to make the ending more exciting. I'm focusing on my sci-fi novel right now, even though the husband really wants me to finish the dark fantasy short story that I taunted him with by sharing the first few pages. Hopefully as I feel healthier, I'll feel more motivated to write, which always falls by the wayside when work bums me out. In the meantime, I'll leave you with pictures of beautiful salads (placed at random intervals throughout this post), the first one being my all-raw lunch salad, and the second being a grilled-chicken-topped salad we had for dinner a few nights ago.