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Fair and Balanced, my ass!

A Fox "News" internal memo has been leaked, in which their "journalists" are told how to slant the news. Read it for yourselves.

I forgot to mention...

...that a couple of weeks ago I was moving some product around where I work (vague enough for you?), stuff that is not heavy or cumbersome at all. Back and forth I go, moving ten of these things from one cart to another.

During one of these moves, I swung my right arm too far, smacking my elbow, my surgically repaired elbow, on the sharp corner of a small keyboard holder. Said keyboard holder is made of hard plastic, and is totally immobile, therefore delivering maximum impact to my arm. I clutched my elbow and swore like a sailor being told he's going back to Iraq for the fifth time. After a few minutes, I told my supervisor, and he came over to my work area and I showed him what had happened. He said he would get someone from Facilities to fix the problem.

Fast-forward two weeks, and the fucking keyboard thing looks exactly the same, its sharp corner daring me to fling some other body part carelessly at its rock-hard edge. I tell my supervisor, and he is surprised by the information that nothing has been done. I wonder to myself if it ever occurred to him to check on it personally - I think if I was in his position I would.

So, now I wonder if I will have to make that trek back to his desk two weeks hence. Or should I go over his head?

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My Left Hand...

...has healed itself, mostly, in the last two weeks. I woke up one morning, unable to curl the fingers of my left hand without severe pain. This, while my left foot (see previous post) was aching as well.

I went in to work anyway because, I'm an idiot, and did the best I could, one-handed. If I were not right-handed, I could not have worked. I called my doctor and was able to get a same-day appointment. I had taken nothing for the pain so the doctor could witness it.

So I'm doing my job, holding my left hand up slightly to ease the throbbing, simultaneously raising up on my left toe, shifting most of my weight to my right leg.

After a bit, I said to myself, "self, what the fuck are you doing?" I couldn't take the pain anymore. I told my boss and went home.

When the time came, I kept my doctor appointment. He diagnosed the foot pain by my description alone. Then he examined my hand. He squeezed the side of the joints on a few of my fingers. No pain. I demonstrated by trying to curl my fingers. Severe pain in the fingers and into the hand. The doctor said he'd never seen anything like it, but suspected some type of arthritic involvement, and I got a referral and a script for naproxen, 500 mg.