What a week!

[giza]

First thing on Monday morning I saw an orthopedic surgeon about my foot. He looked at it, asked me some questions, and said, "Dude, this isn't a neuroma, you have capsulitis", which is an inflammation of glands at the base of the toes. He went on to say that the nerve problems I've been having are secondary, and merely an irritated nerve. When the capsulitis goes away, the nerve will get better. He also noted that my third and fourth toes were curled up a bit, which was making the condition worse. So, he hooked me up with a brace called a "Bursal Brace" (I think!) that will hold those 2 toes down. It was REALLY painful earlier in the week, but after the 5th day in a row, the pain has gotten better. (but I limp more now) In theory, this will help the capsulitis heal. If not, he wants to operate.

When I was seeing Dr. K earlier this week (about something unrelated), we talked about my foot, and he had mentioned how it's entirely possible that I had a neorma at first, and walking funny on the foot caused it to be injured in other ways, and it's entirely possible that I may have a neuroma AND capsulitis. He also explanied that MRIs can give false positive and false negatives, and the only way to know for sure is to cut open my foot, which he VERY strongly recommended against.

So, after I was done with the surgeon on Monday morning, I headed into work. First thing I went to do was install some RPMs and RedHat, and I got an odd message from the RPM program. I did some snooping, and saw that the /var/lib/rpm directory had completely disappeared. So, I got to go through an elaborate ritual of getting a list of all the files on disk, getting a list of all the files contained in the RPMs from RedHat, correlating the two lists to get the list of installed RPMs, and then rerunning the RPM command to install those RPMs, but not to run scripts, check dependencies, or install files. This rebuilt the database. And geez, what a mess. For some reason, /var/lib/rpm wasn't being backed up in my nightly backups. It is now. ;-)

The rest of the week at work was fairly boring, with more bugfixes and stuff. Evenings have been taken up with SpamCon stuff and Anthrocon stuff. I cannot believe that AC is almost upon us again. I am a little nervous about it. I'll get to see a lot of friends again, but there will also be lots of work to do. Hopefully none of the cash registers will break on us again this year.

That's about it, really.

*yawn*

Comments

Awww...

[starbiter.livejournal.com]

I hope your paw heals up ok. Such a drag to have this kind of stuff going on. :hugs:

[shesaspy2.livejournal.com]

ahh that sucks. hope your foot feels better really soon!