Update

The good news is I'm now down 20 pounds. Woohoo!

The bad news is my back is still killing me, especially if I sit at the computer. Argh.

On another note, Drumwaster is having the dead refrigerator blues. This reminds me of the time I rented an apartment that had a dead refrigerator that the landlord promised to replace.

That was when I bought the cooler I recently complained had been borrowed by relatives, such that it was unavailable when I needed it. Repeatedly. For three months I lived out of the cooler, buying ice every other day, buying milk only in small quantities, buying a lot of prepared food from the little store a block away, and of course nonperishables. It was a nuisance, and made things more costly for me.

Having seen that the landlord was an irresponsible slumlord who would weasel out of his promise, I found another place and left. The guy was so lax, he didn't even bother to collect rent until the middle of the month. Rather than giving us an address to mail it, he came in person and I left an envelope on the door for him. So that was how he got my notice. I left him one of my notorious put-down letters telling him I was out of there.

I found a place serendipitously that was bigger, nicer, not on the third floor (won't do that again if I can help it), and in a better location. The room I planned to put the computer in had no outlets, so the new landlord wired that room on a separate circuit for benefit of the computer (a 286 at the time). I became jobless and penniless, so had to move from there after 9 months, but what a great place. If you don't count that the landlord's son, who lived on the first floor, was crazy. Serendipity isn't always completely so.

Wow, my back has mellowed whil I've typed. Not completely, but almost bearable.

MORE...

Gall bladder problems can sometimes show up as a pain below the right shoulder blade. If it were a gallstone or something, I don't think it would show up on a normal x-ray unless that's specifically what they were looking for.

Anyway, I hope they figure out what the hell it is... get well soon!