Nice to see tomwhite back. And lamerunner. I forget what happened to your son's eye? Anything that puts "parasite" and "eye" in the same sentence can't be good! Hope your knee is ok, but I don't think that Synvisc is a very good solution. It's expensive and really doesn't work very well. Some people report good results, but the medium to long range clinical results are not good and it's so pricey. We don't cover it anymore.

Ditto on what others said about helping kids. Kind of hard not to, ya know? I have had a lot of help over the years from my parents, and never take it for granted. All loans are paid back promptly, all advice is well taken (and usually spot-on). I can't see why I wouldn't do the same for mine if they needed it.

Rosie, why don't you ask the guys to do housework? I say guys, but only know of one... It's his house too.

So, after over an hour at the podiatrist's office, 3 x-rays, lots of discussion and $535.31 later, I find that my foot suffered recent trauma and is continuing it's gradual adaptation to my sport given it's natural deformity. Long way of saying, it was hurt, it's getting better, but no real damage. Interesting to compare the x-rays from November 2009 to today... lots of changes in the metatarsal of that third toe. It's about 1/8" shorter than 7 years ago, and lots of scar tissue/bone growth around where I apparently had a stress fracture (??) way back then. He gave me some new metatarsal pads ("gave" being questionable given final bill) to try, but thinks I'm doing really well for all the running I manage to do (mostly pain free) on my weird foot. He's also my dad's podiatrist, and understands where I got this thing from so that's helpful. The recent trauma was probably either the concrete at Green Bay (feet hurt after that one, but got better pretty fast), and/or the mile race last month (not used to speed work, even after a warm up). Most likely a combination of the two since foot really started hurting after the mile race. Recommendation is to keep doing what I'm doing, let pain/discomfort be my guide and carry on. Alrighty then. I think I'll go for a little run after my last meeting today!

Oh, I have so much I want to say,  but just no time.  I am continuing to try to get caught up with my work so I can go on vacation, so am currently working on deeds for next week.  Lots of good advice here, and plenty of {{{hugs}}} for all of you (us?) who need them.

I ran 4.07 today. Pretty slow but better than doing nothing.

I'm still waiting to see what my MRI is going to cost me. I tried to find out in advance but the place I was going to said they couldn't find my insurance and so they had no idea what it would be. Looking at prices at various places it is going to be anywhere from $800 to $4000. I should have worked harder to get a good deal but I just wanted to get it done so I went where the doctor sent me. It'll all be part of my $5000 deductible.

It's so nice that we got the "affordable care act". 

 

Yep--I would have told you the same thing...until Eric came along.  If you feel that it's the right thing to do, then it's the right thing to do.

That's brilliant.