BACKlog: It's working? (So'm I)

These entries are copied from my "daily log" on my back, so the newest entries are last.

This entry has a happy ending; my latest notes show how happy I am that my recent injections at the pain clinic really made me feel better almost right away (in that part of my back).

12:44 AM 7/18/06

     My back is really stiff ... in all areas ... slight to moderate pain ... but, real muscle stiffness & soreness.

     I did finish the main phase of my weeding yesterday. I did it in two sessions, morning & late aftenoon, and took plenty of aspirin & some gin during the day. I did not do any housework... even going over to put the clothes from the washer to the dryer sounded like too much, so I quit for the day ... laid down on the sofa early in the evening ... even slept some. Now, the pain woke me up & I could not find a comfortable position.

7:35 AM 7/18/06

     I am up, but certainly NOT attum ... today ,I don't know when, I am to have Very Important Company. My housework has been left undone so that I could finish my weeds ... so ... somehow, I must do at least a tidy-up.

    I am on my feet but still too stiff & sore to do much. SO, I am going to extremes: I am having some gin. I put on lots of liniment. I must have something quick to eat so that I can take some Pill aspirins.

    CONGESTIVE HEART DISEASE: I don't understand it, but I have it. More & more, I seem to have "a frog in my throat"... trying to ignore it.

     MY BACK: right now, I am walking slowly, with pains in my left hip, etc. that keep me hunched forward & to the right. Anything on the floor is not within range. Hopefully, my emergency tactics & just moving around will loosen me up. Usually, I purposely get off to a slow start. It does the muscles harm to insist upon moving around until they are loosened up.

10:15 PM 7/18/06

     I ruint my back doing a big housecleaning today (company coming) ... didn't even make supper ... just had a few drinks & lots of external liniment, too ... then took the telepone out on the deck for several hours. I really slept well (hadn't slept much the night before.)

8:37 AM 7/19/06

     APPOINTMENT AT THE PAIN CLINIC TODAY!   Driving   Not supposed to take aspirins for several days before, but, my back was so bad this past week that I gobbled the aspirins big time. I'll be able to tell him, tho, that I haven't had any since yesterday morning.

      I've be sorta up & about for an hour ... but not moving too fast.

12:53 AM 7/20/06

     What a day that was! I think that I napped a bit, got up & HAD to spend an hour & a half giving the dog a trim so that I could get all the burrs out of his hair. Three weeks trimming burdocks, & somewhere this dog got burrs all over him!

     My back has been so miserable. I had the injections yesterday; could feel the relief almost right away. I was wondering if this was beause the Pain Clinic doctor always gives me some "numbing medication" first. Maybe lkkkkkkkkkkkkl (WHOOPSIE ... I FELL ASLEEP.)

9:45 AM 7/20/06

     I have been up early ... meant to go back to bed ... but, my back feels so much better that I am sooooooo ambitious that I keep getting ideas of something to do first before I sit down, even for breakfast.

Chatty     When the Pain Clinic called for the followup-next day phone call... I told them how happy I was that my back was feeling better. I said that the other sections of my back that also have problems are also feeling much better today ... just slight muscle aches there. I said, yes, I think that I have 100% improvement in that mid-back part ... lower ribs & the small of my back.

     This is (I think) the most dramatic effect of any of my treatments ... I wonder if there is an accumilative effect? For the first many months ... I couldn't even guess if there were any improvement.

      I have at least three major problem areas in my back; in two weeks, my lower back is scheduled for the "lumbar facets".

     From the x-rays ... they tell me that there are 6 points, all up & down my back, that show serious problems.

4:34 PM 7/20/06

    Way Too Happy OH WHAT A GRAND DAY! I FELT LIKE BOUNCING OUT OF THE CHIROPRACTOR'S OFFICE.

     My back was already feeling much better than usual from the injections yesterday; the top of my back felt so much looser, now, too. My lower back was only a mild ache ... I didn't have my usual stiff walk ... I am sure that I actually had a little wiggle to my walk.

8:53 AM 7/21/06

      I am up, but not attum yet. Sleepy Part of the reason is that I did not get enough sleep last nite. Part of the reason is my usual morning stiffness & soreness ... WHICH IS MUCH LESS SEVERE THAN USUAL. My lower back is still making it painful to stand upright ... the rest of my back just has a lot of aching & soreness.   But, since I feel better than usual at this point of the day, I am hopeful that this will be a good day.