I'm going to Japan in December. With Nat. For about two weeks. He wants me to contribute to the planning. Fine. I'd like to go to a hot spring or two, I'd like to eat excellent Japanese food (including, of course, excellent sushi), I'd like to meet his friends, I'd like to see the newer parts of a city, I'd like to see older parts of a city, I'd ( Read more... )

Quite a lot has happened in the world of "My Back." On September 17th, it was recommended to me that I take day off from work. I took the 18th off and had a second injection in my back. Unfortunately, that one didn't seem to do much. I asked my specialist and my PT if I should be working (hoping, honestly, that they would say that it was fine for ( Read more... )

Today I had the most exhausting day at school yet. Not that it was that bad, parts of it were very productive, it was just extremely busy. I got to school a few minutes before seven. Almost no one is here that early, the office staff has just arrived, and it is quiet and peaceful ( Read more... )

Well, I got to a specialist last Tuesday. To make a long story short, I had an injection of steroids into my lower spinal area, near the L5 nerve root. It made me kind of nervous, but whatever it takes (short of surgery) is fine with me ( Read more... )

The interesting parts of my MRI results ( Read more... )

Life has been a drugged out blur. Friday, the ambulance and hospital. Saturday and Sunday are blurry, painful memories of not much. Monday I went to a physical therapist who was able to get me to stand up straight. He told me to start icing every two hours and up the Advil to stop the acute pain. That helped a lot. Nat had to support most of my ( Read more... )

Blessed are those who make these, and also to those who give them to those in pain. I have finally reached a place without constant pain. However, I can't drive and can barely stay awake ( Read more... )

I went to my acupuncturist yesterday. She did the usual needles in my back for low back pain. She also used electro stems on a few key points, which she has done before. This time she left me with the controls. She explained that the first dial was for the left side needles, the second for the right side, and the bottom was the frequency. She said ( Read more... )

I have goldfish. The fancy, freaky looking kind. Six of them in a ten gallon tank that my cats use as their water bowl. (The fish don't seem to mind and the cats are good at watching and not hunting.) I originally got into keeping goldfish when my brother had Koi. Not the same thing, but I don't have a yard with a pond. So, I turned to fancy ( Read more... )

Quick update before I pass out from a busy day ( Read more... )