the 5 things of which a post are made
1. The tow truck guy, bless his tattooed heart, figured out what's causing the Saab's psychosis before I had to pay him to tow it to the service guys.
2. It's the ignition switch. Now we wait to find out whether the service guys can rebuild it or whether we have to get a new one . . . on which there is no ETA. I love my 1997 Saab, but there are drawbacks.
3. Speaking of drawbacks, my insurance company voted no on the Lyrica prescription. I need to find time to call my doctor's office and find out what we do about round 2.
4. On the other hand, the acupuncture is working. I took a walk with
mirrorthaw yesterday after my appointment and had to double-take twice. Once because my ankle didn't hurt and once later because my thigh muscles weren't stringed-instrument-tense. It didn't last, but boy it was nice while it was there.
5. And finally, today I had the odd experience of consciously witnessing myself have a breakthrough. I've been struggling for most of a year, since before I broke my ankle, with cantering. (Yet another thing fantasy writers don't think about.) I fell off the first time I tried cantering off the lunge line--actually it was three hundred and sixty-three days ago, May 19, I just went and looked--and since then I've been struggling both to learn how to canter and to stop being afraid of it. (The huge hiatus because of the ankle did not help.) But today we were working off the lunge line, and I asked my teacher if we could try cantering. Not because I thought I ought to, but because I wanted to. She was delighted.
Milo and I cantered. I didn't fall off and I wasn't terrified I was going to (although I do need to quit trying to grip the stirrups with my toes). It was splendid.
2. It's the ignition switch. Now we wait to find out whether the service guys can rebuild it or whether we have to get a new one . . . on which there is no ETA. I love my 1997 Saab, but there are drawbacks.
3. Speaking of drawbacks, my insurance company voted no on the Lyrica prescription. I need to find time to call my doctor's office and find out what we do about round 2.
4. On the other hand, the acupuncture is working. I took a walk with
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5. And finally, today I had the odd experience of consciously witnessing myself have a breakthrough. I've been struggling for most of a year, since before I broke my ankle, with cantering. (Yet another thing fantasy writers don't think about.) I fell off the first time I tried cantering off the lunge line--actually it was three hundred and sixty-three days ago, May 19, I just went and looked--and since then I've been struggling both to learn how to canter and to stop being afraid of it. (The huge hiatus because of the ankle did not help.) But today we were working off the lunge line, and I asked my teacher if we could try cantering. Not because I thought I ought to, but because I wanted to. She was delighted.
Milo and I cantered. I didn't fall off and I wasn't terrified I was going to (although I do need to quit trying to grip the stirrups with my toes). It was splendid.
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I hope something positive can come about with your new meds. There has to be a way! I'm glad the acupuncture is working!
Oh, I remember the first time I cantered. I was so scared! It was made all the more harder by me being in an ENGLISH saddle for the first time. I stayed on. I did. I'm glad you had a great time!
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good luck with lyrica. it's a metabolite of gabapentin, so if that used to work and stopped, you may be on the right track with trying something further down that line.
another (possibly cheaper) thought is to go with other gaba-ergic meds (benzodiazepines which are gaba-a agonists, or baclofen which is a gaba-b agonist). both are old and available as generics. none are fashionable at the moment. (i'm a neuroscientist, i keep track of these things...)
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One of the horses I rode really liked to gallop, which I will grant feels a lot less like you're going to get catapulted off (horsapulted?) but once she started it was really hard to convince her that no, we are CANTERING and please would you cut it out with the galloping now?