Hurry up and wait...

The Internet is a great and terrible thing.  I've been trying to stay busy so I don't spend all my time on it.   A managed to make foccasia bread with a lot of assistance from Em, but I still read a ton about the spine on the Internet.  So, freaking out.  The surgeon planned on speaking to the insurance today, last I heard they were playing telephone tag with each other.  I need to feel better and go back to work but any way you cut it this process has been a drag!  Prolonged worry about surgery, or lack of surgery if the insurance company denies it again, is scary and stressful either way.  So I read internet back surgery stories and medication interactions horrors.  Bad, bad, bad!  I started this blog thing to prevent me from doing exactly what I am doing...obsessing over all that could go wrong. I don't do that when I drive and if you think about all the things that could go wrong with that you would get out and burn your Car of Potential Death on the spot.   

So on to other news.  The medication has made food taste weird.  Bad weird, really really bad.  I had a part of a Subway sandwich.  I like those.  My husband cut it nicely into 4 little pieces because I am super picky now.  I was sort of picking at it and there was something in it, horrid like sour kraut dipped in battery acid and allowed to ferment in hell for 3 months ( in real life, I think it  might have been an onion).  Needless to say, I didn't finish all my dinner.  When making the foccasia, I noticed that my sense of smell has changed too.  The dough smelled nauseating to me, I think it was the garlic, but everyone else said it smelled and tasted good.  I'll take their word for it, no way I'm eating it.  Bizarre right?  Toast, plain potato chips, and tic tacs are about all I eat, with the occasional cookie or ice cream tossed in for protein  (As a vegetarian, a healthy diet is vital!).   At least the mood swings have stopped, so that's good.  

Hopefully, I'll hear tomorrow what the insurance company says.  Eeek!  Scary either way!  Perfect for halloween.