went to the surgeon yesterday . . . finally.  man, it takes forever to get into to see the good ones.  after the visit and, after his manly hands all over me, it is determined that I don't need surgery for what was originally thought!  thank god!  but i still have to get a ct scan to make sure there is not something else going on due to pain I am still having.
so, not, completely out of the woods, yet, but things look a lot better.
and . . . now for something, completely different.  FEVER RAY FUCKING DESTROYED LAST NIGHT!