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Good: I do not need surgery. The sports-doc estimates that I'll need the brace for another week, and crutches until two weeks from now. I'm due back in a month for follow-up X-rays, at which point I can hope to be pronounced 'recovered'. In the mean time, I have a renewed script for pain meds. Thank fuck.
Bad: Being poked at and having my knee wiggled out-of-plane to reach those conclusions left me hurting worse than yesterday. I already had problems with stress from out-of-plane bending on that knee, thanks.
Ugly: Opiate painkillers are effective and addictive in equal measure. I'm watching myself carefully because the animal part of my mind is smart enough to get us into trouble, but not enough to get us out of it.
Bad: Being poked at and having my knee wiggled out-of-plane to reach those conclusions left me hurting worse than yesterday. I already had problems with stress from out-of-plane bending on that knee, thanks.
Ugly: Opiate painkillers are effective and addictive in equal measure. I'm watching myself carefully because the animal part of my mind is smart enough to get us into trouble, but not enough to get us out of it.
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Indeed. I've actually explained to customers at times (if they seem amenable to it, or at least likely to at worst take it as a joke) that since I'm a knowledge worker, in actuality, most of what they're paying for me to do is sleep, since my “inventory” consists mostly of mental energy and related states which get regenerated mostly via sleeping enough (and other related things, but it's a useful metonym). I get the impression large sectors of mainstream tech industry do have a way of burning everyone out whenever they can, and then just arranging everything so that hobbling along on the resultant fumes doesn't hurt anyone but the peons. It's kind of scary.
Oh well.