I've just finally read "Elder Brother"

It's the Tammy Pierce short story in Bruce Coville's Half Human anthology. See, in one book in the Tortall series, the mage Numair turns a rival mage into an apple tree. He comments that, because of the balance of magic, this probably meant that, somewhere in the world, there was now a tree that had just been turned into a man.

This is the story of that tree.

In any case, it's significant because I've NOW read all of Tamora Pierce's published work. 'Course, she's got a new book coming out relatively soon. . . .*bouncebouncebounce*.

Saw the doctor today

Dr. Sagov is very difficult to make appointments with, so I saw Dr. Altman, who's the other physician in the practice. I'm starting to really like him. Not as much as I like Dr. Sagov, because, well, Dr. Sagov has been my doctor since I was a wee tot, but Dr. Altman has many of the same traits that make Dr. Sagov a good doctor.

Anyway, the upshot is he upped my dosage of Lexapro, with the comment that it looked like the medication started failing about when the days started getting shorter, so we'll revisit the dosage in six weeks, and, if things are getting better, possibly cut back to the original dosage, with a note to go back up to the higher dosage in November.

And we also talked briefly about therapy as a possibility. I said that, while I wasn't resistant to the idea in principle, I wasn't enthusiastic about it, because I've seen maybe a dozen therapists of one stripe or another in my life, working with six of them fairly extensively, and had really nothing to show for it.

But Lis and I were talking about it further, and I'm trying to figure out if it's time to re-open the question and maybe start again.

And, well, as my friends list is chock full of 1) therapists 2) medical personel of various sorts 3) generally wise people 4) people who've benefited from therapy (with lots of overlap between categories), I figured I'd ask here.
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