Today is probably going to be a double post. first an update... My appointment with Dr. C was back on the 7th of January... The stupid lab didn't run my CD4 test, so my doc wouldn't see me until thy got the rest of the results in. so I'm still undetectable and my CD4 is up another nine points to 101.

I'm still on the Bactrim until i get above 200 and stay there for a couple of months or so. My rehab doc gave me a prescription for Nortiptyline a while back because the Ambien wasn't doing any good. All it did was make me a zombie where I couldn't even walk to the bedroom but once I was asleep the effects didn't help me sleep any longer than without it. The new stuff actually seems to help.. I still wake a up alot at night to turn over, but I'm more easily able to go back to sleep. From reading abotu the drug, it sounds like it is also used to treat bed-wetting. so I guess because of that it dries me out some and I don't usually have to get up to pee at night which I think also contributs to me being able to go back to sleep easier. We've switched to yet another therapy place. My time at the last place was up and When I was at the rehab doc for my last round of Botox in December, she gave us a referral to this other place up near us just around the corner from the last place... As usual, the OT doesn't seem to really know what to do with me... but she's not a sadistic bitch like the OT at the last place... I still miss the god part time therapist from the last place. She was the only person in the last year and a half to give me any glimmer of hope that I would be able to use my hand again. The only problem is that the scheduling lady has it in her head the my insurance is going to stop covering two therapy sessions on the same day starting in February.. so that rather than us going two days a week and having OT and PT back-to=back, We'll have to come four days a week doing one each day! The insurance company says that's not true, but the scheduling lady is insistent on it, claiming to have a letter from the insurance stating as such, though, looking at the letter it sounds more like there was a problem with how the billing people have been coding the therapies when billing insurance. Hopefully this will get straightened out before February. B can't take off work four mornings a week to take me to therapy... he'd have to start working both Saturday AND Sunday to make up missing all that work.