The pain is no better.

I won’t say that it is worse. It may be, but I don’t want to go there.

At the behest of my physical therapist, I contacted the head researcher of my lab to let him know I would be out for the remainder of this week and all of next to recover from a recent setback with my shoulder. He was more receptive than I expected, although granted, it was over email, which means his initial, less-than-receptive response to the information may not have been communicated to me.

Be that as it may, what I didn’t communicate to him was that it has thrown into question not just how much I can work in the lab this summer, but whether or not I will be able to work there at all. It has also cast doubt as to whether or not I will be able to…