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1. I got the (hopefully last) injection in my foot, today. It's a little achy, but not nearly as painful, unsettling, and shaky-making as the one two weeks ago -- I think the prior one the needle must've hit something it wasn't supposed to.

2. As I was leaving the doc's office, I saw a dog, so I stopped to say hi. The dog's person looked up from across the street and called me by name.

He remembered me from elementary school.

I have no idea who he is. Even after he told me his name and described himself age whatever. I don't even remember some people from high school, and he remembers someone from elementary school, despite being in recovery from a traumatic brain injury.

And apparently I still look like I did when I was nine.

3. I'm realizing that a lot of the worst fan arguments I've had on tumblr happen because I'm criticizing the whole story, while the other person is arguing within the context of the story, as if the work of media was a given. I think those are both valid models for different types of criticism, but damn, they don't play well together. They really don't play well together if you don't acknowledge that you're actually talking about two different things.

And I may find the 'only capable of seeing it within it's own framework' a bit simplistic. :P /snob

As always, tumblr exacerbates this by not having any clear threading, so a conversation that clearly started on a meta/societal level can be derailed by someone reading it at an in-context level -- and I can't even really blame them. But it is rather tiring to have to explain "Yes, of course it makes sense within the story, the creators made the story that way. But WHY DID THEY DO THAT?" And try to do it without using your all-caps Internet Outside Voice. :P

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1. I got the (hopefully last) injection in my foot, today. It's a little achy, but not nearly as painful, unsettling, and shaky-making as the one two weeks ago -- I think the prior one the needle must've hit something it wasn't supposed to.

2. As I was leaving the doc's office, I saw a dog, so I stopped to say hi. The dog's person looked up from across the street and called me by name.

He remembered me from elementary school.

I have no idea who he is. Even after he told me his name and described himself age whatever. I don't even remember some people from high school, and he remembers someone from elementary school, despite being in recovery from a traumatic brain injury.

And apparently I still look like I did when I was nine.

3. I'm realizing that a lot of the worst fan arguments I've had on tumblr happen because I'm criticizing the whole story, while the other person is arguing within the context of the story, as if the work of media was a given. I think those are both valid models for different types of criticism, but damn, they don't play well together. They really don't play well together if you don't acknowledge that you're actually talking about two different things.

And I may find the 'only capable of seeing it within it's own framework' a bit simplistic. :P /snob

As always, tumblr exacerbates this by not having any clear threading, so a conversation that clearly started on a meta/societal level can be derailed by someone reading it at an in-context level -- and I can't even really blame them. But it is rather tiring to have to explain "Yes, of course it makes sense within the story, the creators made the story that way. But WHY DID THEY DO THAT?" And try to do it without using your all-caps Internet Outside Voice. :P

Words, words, words

I'm slowly being convinced to refer to my various shoe modifications as a prosthesis. We've (parents, me, doctors) always referred to them as either prostheses or orthotics, depending on what insurance felt like covering at the time, and it never really mattered. But three visits to a podiatrist has convinced me that if you call it an orthotic (on the basis that it's a shoe modification and shoe insert), people don't think about it right. Prosthesis seems like an overkill kind of word, but since the lift is functionally replacing an inch and a half of leg, it actually fits the function better.

I reached this conclusion this morning, as the nurse asked, for the second time, whether I'd been 'wearing my inserts'. Which she may have called 'prefab', meaning apparently 'our office could not charge you for them since they came from elsewhere.'

YES, OKAY, THAT IS THE ONLY WAY I WEAR SHOES, IT WAS CUSTOM MOLDED TO MY FOOT AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH STEPPING WRONG IN A FREAKING CAVE.

The podiatrist gave me exactly what I needed for my injury (yay, miracle injections!) but it is sooo painfully clear that their day-to-day is totally not built for patients like me. :P

Words, words, words

I'm slowly being convinced to refer to my various shoe modifications as a prosthesis. We've (parents, me, doctors) always referred to them as either prostheses or orthotics, depending on what insurance felt like covering at the time, and it never really mattered. But three visits to a podiatrist has convinced me that if you call it an orthotic (on the basis that it's a shoe modification and shoe insert), people don't think about it right. Prosthesis seems like an overkill kind of word, but since the lift is functionally replacing an inch and a half of leg, it actually fits the function better.

I reached this conclusion this morning, as the nurse asked, for the second time, whether I'd been 'wearing my inserts'. Which she may have called 'prefab', meaning apparently 'our office could not charge you for them since they came from elsewhere.'

YES, OKAY, THAT IS THE ONLY WAY I WEAR SHOES, IT WAS CUSTOM MOLDED TO MY FOOT AND HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH STEPPING WRONG IN A FREAKING CAVE.

The podiatrist gave me exactly what I needed for my injury (yay, miracle injections!) but it is sooo painfully clear that their day-to-day is totally not built for patients like me. :P