Wishing for a Police Car to Appear

The route to and from my doctor's office leads over University Avenue in Palo Alto/East Palo Alto. This is a slow street, with lots of uncoordinated traffic lights, low speed limits, and lots of traffic working their way into and out of Palo Alto. For me, the alternative routes are higher speed but longer because they are so roundabout, so I just remember to allow an hour to travel the twenty or so miles between my apartment and the Palo Alto Medical Clinic and try not to get too impatient.

( Tales of a mad driver; no injuries of which I am aware )

I was glad to be rid of that maniac. I only hope he doesn't hurt anyone else when he self-destructs, which he will if he keeps driving like that.

Here's Blood in My Eye

I think the warranty on my body must be running out.

( Cut for TMI )

So it's back to Palo Alto Medical Center for a second straight day, this time to go to Urgent Care and have them take a look at my eye. I have this hope that if I do go and see to it right now, they'll tell me it's harmless and will clear up overnight, but if I don't, something serious will blow up on me.

I do not have time for this. I had a lot of things that need to get done at work before I can wash my hands of my office for two weeks, plus of course Worldcon preparation coming to a head.

Better Safe Than Sorry

As I rather expected, the nice doctor at PAMF Urgent Care -- she remembered me from a previous visit some years ago, which is remarkable to me -- said that I have a broken blood vessel in my eye, that it's minor -- like a bruise -- and that aside from not looking very nice, is not anything to worry about. It should heal in 1-3 weeks. So those of you who see me at Worldcon, try not to worry about the nasty red spot in the lower right corner of my right eye. She did suggest that the fact that I'd ramped up my aspirin intake because of my back pain might have made my blood slightly harder to clot, and that's why the spot spread as much as it did, so at her suggestion I'm cutting back the aspirin to my normal maintenance dose and using ibuprofen for the second dose of painkiller I've been taking in the mornings.

My thanks to everyone who posted messages of sympathy and support. It's good to have friends who care about you.

Oh, and I did try the alternative route around downtown Palo Alto, and while it worked, having to make two unprotected left turns (on to and off of Alma) during heavy traffic times is almost as bad as having to swim through the heavy tide of University Avenue traffic. And, wouldn't you know it, I got a phone call, and this was one of the few times I'd forgotten to put on my headset, so by the time I was able to get pulled over to legally answer it, it had gone to voice mail. No really big deal, but it's one of those "it figures" things.