8:46 AM 7/31/05  

     I don't know what hurts the worst; been awake for several hours ... am just now working on getting into gear.  Each part of my body has a separate ache or pain, even my knee ... each hip, my shoulder-blade area, my shoulders, my neck ... & each lower rib in back!
     Each individual pain is only 5 or so ... but, wow ... the effect!  There is no way that I can stand upright.  I was even leary about getting upright to begin with .... wondering about some excercises? ... NOT until after my  bath!
     On my first to-do list is a cuppa hot chocolate  (with liniment) to soothe (I already had the mega-duty Excedrin earlier) ... scrub & fill the tub ... TAKE A LONG, HOT SOAKY BATH!
     It is not until AFTER this is all done that I will decide what to do today!  

      3:07 PM 7/31/05
   Had a nice bath & a nap ... feeling much better. Not sure why, but,my whole back has a feeling of relaxation & is a bit tired-achy, but doesn't really HURT.
     Now, it's getting hot out, so, I'll see if I can do a few things outside before it gets too bad.  

 11:37 PM 7/31/2005   

   Did a few tasks ... back is better than this morning ... hope it's better tomorrow!  Now, mostly my lower rib section is really sore.   Bummer ... it's three days until the Eagle flies over, and I'm out of liniment!  

BUMMER!

5:32 AM 7/30/05

SLEPT FAIRLY WELL UNTIL ABOUT FOUR A.M.

    After spending an hour and a half, off & on, on the computer, my upper back is beginning to cause real agony.  BACK TO BED!  When I first got up ... I was pretty stiff.

2:58 PM 7/30/05
      I took some naps ... got in gear after 10 am ... did not too much ... sent out a big family e-mail ... had lunch & my back is killing me ... both upper & lower.
     I was to have "gone somewhere" today (and yesterday) ...  is that tension bothering me?  I took some of Maggie's extra duty Excedrin   & some liniment... it is a good 7 pain & growing more uncomfortable.  Lying down did not help.

4:42 PM 7/30/05

UUUHHH....  Must retreat to the sofa again.  I HAD  to shampoo both dogs again, then mop up the drippage in the bathroom, across the kitchen, and in the entry. 

5:08 PM 7/30/05
   Even on the sofa, I got such a horrid kink in my back, where I have been, only, again, just to the right  of my spine.  I was afraid to get off the sofa, but, I had to go to the bathroom.  Now, I'm headed back to the sofa with a glass of liniment.  Not even going to make a journal entry.

1:09 AM 7/31/05
Awake again.

1:41 AM 7/31/05
Still awake; my back feels a bit better, still stiff & sore, but not so bad.

Better or Not?

    11:35 AM 7/29/05
Uuuuu... just as I began to write this ... one of those sharp twinges ... but, for the first time, on the right side of my spine at the hip level!

We (the dogs & I slept on the sofa last night, mostly because of the news & that I couldn't sleep properly anyways.

So... it was 10;30 am before I finally got up & about ... did have a couple of sound, refreshing naps at the end.

My back was okay at first ... now .. I feel as though I'm walking slightly stooped over & my lower back is slightly hurting more... tho, my upper back has that "tired" feeling.  I'm wondering if I should take a hot bath now or later.

11:50 AM 7/29/05

   The Pain Diagnosis Center just called to have me describe my back situation.  I said that the relief was at the 50% level, and since my lower back was hurting worse, I was presuming that the upper back was BETTER ....  They will call me in two months (at the end of September) to see how I'm doing.

'Nuther Sleepless Night

My Back 

7/28/05
My Thoractic Facet injections of yesterday seem to have wrought grand relaxation in my upper back.  Almost right away, my shoulders & neck wanted loosening and were "crackling" as I worked them loose... maybe that was only the "numbing" shots that I also got?

6:02 PM 7/28/05
Increasingly, my back is developing pain instead of just an aggravating ache.  I would rate it at 7+ right now.

I did not take my MSM today.... I will tend to that NOW... then my vitamins & PAIN PILLS!  ... THEN ... RETREAT!   ...to the sofa & veg out watching T.V.   I may even pour a stiff Gin something ...

Maybe this is just pain in the area of yesterday's "Thoractic Facets"  ... injections.???

8:18 PM 7/28/05
Well , that solves that ... it's raining again.... I WAS going to go out on the deck ... just to go OUTSIDE  for a while ...
    I'd been driven to take some "Sofa-Time" ... took muchas  prescriptions for the back situations:
     MEDICINE:  No prescriptions available .... took some of Maggie's Excedrin Plus.
     MUSCLE RELAXANT:  mega doses of "Internal Liniment".
    PHYSICAL THERAPY:  some prescribed exercises.  Tension release via fantasies.  (I would love to have an on-demand person ... 6'2" Skandianavian amply endowed who is VERY compliant). Plus: SOFA TIME
     The procedure has been very successful ... What was the key?

9:10 PM 7/28/05
CHIT ... now, my back feels great ... the day is over ... now what?  It is time for bed ... should I try to accomplish something?  Should I try to sleep?  Should  I try another drink?

1:29 AM 7/29/05
A nap, a hot chocolate with a small shot of gin, & 3 aspirins & MSM ... slept well, surprisingly ... can I get back to sleep?

3:59 AM 7/29/05
Another sleepless night!

Yesterday's Injections

My back was sooo great this morning; I had caught up on my sleep missing for the last several nights... sorta.

Yesterday afternoon, at the Niagra Pain Clinic, I had some "Thoractic Facets"  or something like that.

When I went in, I felt fine, developed some agravating back situations while waiting  ... which seemed relieved by the time that I left.

This morning, a rainy day that started late because I didn't get up & about until 9:39 a.m. ... I felt GREAT! 

MID-AFTERNOON... after having done nothing in particular, my back started telling me to go lie down.  Just sitting down did not seem to help.  It was the gripping, nagging ache that makes me feel that I am so tired.

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5:25 PM 7/28/05

  NOW .... it is increasingly aggravating!

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ONE THING:  I did not take any of my MSM or other vitamins, suppliments yet today!