GO FIGURE?

7:03 AM 12/17/2006

    I had my scheduled "lumbar facets" last week; they hurt terribly & did not seem to take effect as quickly as usual.  I think I've figured out why.  Mom, visiting me  here, was diagnosed with an infection.  I may have acquired that.  So, my numbing shots prior to the injections would not have been very effective.  I must now go to check about that.

   Yes, the injections did make an improvement; I had been so miserable for the several weeks before.  It seems as tho they wear off noticeably.

    I think that after the holidays, I will go in for the facets in a different part of my back ... the lower rib section.  That may keep everything from hurting too badly before the next scheduled "lumbar facets".

     REMARKABLY ... the pain at the base of my neck ... which was a newer problem ... and had been getting terrible ... WENT AWAY!  WHY?  WHO KNOWS?

  L o i s
my website: Crystal Falls, MI
my blog: Upper Peninsula, MI and beyond

AGONY ... AGAIN!

10:37 PM 11/10/2006

    I've just put off ... procrastinated ... & I promise myself that I WILL keep this up.

    Right now, I am again in agony ...  I did not do much physically today ... maybe this is because I had to do a lot of moving things around YESTERDAY?

     WHO EVER KNOWS?  It could be tension from not being able to get things done, like getting ready for winter by covering, moving, etc.  things outside.  I have some "must do projects" for myself & others.  It's just not possible.  I wake up at night ... cannot sleep for thinking of what I have not gotten done. Then, when I do force myself to keep on past the point of comfort (like now), I pay for it for the next several days.
    I have been going to Physical Therapy twice a week lately.  The doctor at the Pain Clinic who gives me my periodic steroid injections into my back keeps asking me if I have been going to PT, so I had him give me the required prescription so that I can.
    Often, in PT, I am in misery; I tell them so.  This doesn't cut any ice ... even when I stagger out, in obvious pain.
    I told my Chiropractor about this, telling him that I feel BETTER after my appointment with him!
L o i s
my website: Crystal Falls, MI
my blog: Upper Peninsula, MI and beyond