Olfactory progress! and other things...

I woke up right at 7am today, since LG was supposed to go observe a lab this morning. He was still asleep, but when I spoke he announced that since he only had to observe, he wasn't going to go in. He moaned and coughed and sounded miserable, so I got up and left voicemail and e-mail for the instructor so she wouldn't miss him...and then, of course, I was too wired to go back to sleep.

Physical therapy took longer than I had planned to get to because my car was under an amazing layer of ice since our storm thingie on Wednesday. Simple brushing and scraping were getting me nowhere. If it was like that on my car, the streets must have been delightful. But I eventually got to PT and did a number of exercises. Basically, I'm extremely mobile, but I seem to have a pinched nerve because of compression in my lower back. She gave me exercises to do to help open it up. At one point I had to lie on my belly for a little bit and that was bizarre. It felt like someone had put a softball into my waistband and was asking me to put all my weight on it. That there uterus has gotten bigger, I tell you what.

I don't know if the PT helped, but we finished up and I made another couple of appointments and then headed out to get cold stuff for LG and then stopped at Fresh Market. I can smell again! I had a horrible sinus infection in November and lost my sense of smell entirely for 3 weeks. Then it started to come back, but was really limited. I could only smell what was literally under my nose. In the last two weeks I've begun to be able to smell ambient smells again - coffee being brewed in someone's office, popcorn in the anthro lab...and grocery store smells today. Even freshly baked bread! I am so happy because I was afraid it was gone forever.

Now it's like 4pm and I'm trying to work on stuff for the language class. It's interesting, and I like it, but I'm also restless and kind of bored and keep updating my e-mails to see if anyone has written me. I'm also restless because another storm thingie is due in, this one involving less ice, but a major snow dump of 4-8 inches. The chances of them cancelling school tomorrow are almost nil, so I'm freaking out a bit.