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Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment - Day Fourteen

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**This post was transferred from the now defunct "The Long Ease" blog.** Treatment Day: 14 Fridays, as I mentioned before, the doctor who is already scheduled to come in an hour later than the Monday/Tuesday/Thursday doctor, is often even LATER than expected.  Today was no exception, leaving me in the waiting room to be tortured by a FUCKING GODAWFUL band called something like "Florida-Georgia Border" on whatever shitty Morning Show was on the TV, because I still insist on showing up early  just in case  the doc is early so I can get out of there early and in to work as early as possible to maximize my already severely diminished hours.  I think I have finally learned my lesson. While I waited, I pulled out a book I have been slowly reading in my (very limited) spare time.  It's called " How To Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers " by  Toni Bernhard.   I actually found this book after fumbling upon her ...