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I'm a librarian who loves anime, manga, and reading a wide variety of genres.

Currently reading

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Vol. 1
Dojyomaru, Fuyuyuki, Sean McCann
Progress: 103/374 pages
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeff Lindsay
Progress: 424/470 minutes
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
Mary Downing Hahn
Progress: 184/184 pages
Parental Guidance
Avery Flynn
Progress: 40 %
An Offer From a Gentleman
Julia Quinn
Progress: 102/358 pages
The Twisted Ones
T. Kingfisher
Progress: 385/385 pages
Educated
Tara Westover
Progress: 315/730 minutes
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Vol. 2
Satoru Yamaguchi, Nami Hidaka
Progress: 24/171 pages
Graphic Medicine Manifesto
MK Czerwiec, Kimberly R. Myers, Scott T. Smith, Michael J. Green, Susan Merrill Squier, Ian Williams
Progress: 26/172 pages
Ao Oni: Mutation
Kenji Kuroda, Karin Suzuragi, Alexander Keller-Nelson
Progress: 30/152 pages

Non-book post - Ugh

I did my "follow up" appointment - the orthopedic doctor in town rather than the guy a 3+ hour round trip away. It was just as useless as I feared it would be. He moved my leg around a bit (no x-ray) and expressed disappointment that the hospital had scheduled me with a different doctor than the one he'd specified. I had actually noticed this, called the hospital, and was told this was normal and should be fine since they're both orthopedic surgeons. ::shrug:: Anyway, he talked about surgery again (basically breaking my hip to try to correct the hip dysplasia) but said that if physical therapy seemed to be helping I could keep doing my exercises and see how things go.

 

If I have to go see someone again about my hip, I'll probably find a different doctor. Not sure yet who, but I don't trust this one at this point, and I feel like I'm repeatedly tossing my copay into a void. I know there's surgery in my future at some point, but it concerns that it's repeatedly the only option he talks about.