The path just keeps twisting before me, with no glimpse of the end, or how many more trials I'll have to endure before I get there. My chiropractor is sending me back to my back specialist doctor person for a reevaluation. And there are really only three things he can tell me: continue with the chiropractor, have another steroid shot, or begin ( Read more... )

It is currently 99 degrees outside, and the heat index is 107. It has been like this for the past few days, and seems determined to remain so for at least a few more. I can't take it. With my heart problem I'm even more susceptible to being sick from the heat. We don't have an air conditioner in the main part of the house; Krys has one upstairs ( Read more... )

Warm today; muggy. Not very comfortable, but it could be much worse, and at least there's a breeze ( Read more... )

Spent the weekend planting flowers and enjoying myself in the garden. Loaded up on plants and seeds at Bachman's on Saturday with my mom, planted some, and then did the rest on Sunday. While I was working my back felt fine. It was after I was all done and had rested for awhile that I seemed to lose all strength from my legs, and then when that ( Read more... )

A week ago I went to the Heart and Vascular Centre at Methodist Hospital to be wired for a 24 hour heart monitor, which I then, obviously, wore for the following 24 hours. (I had recently been to the doctor because I had noticed my heart "pausing" now and then, and found that quite unsettling.) It recorded everything my heart did. The results ( Read more... )

One day the pain was still "manageable" and then next I could barely walk. That's how quickly I go down hill with this back pain. It doesn't come on gradually anymore, it's more like a punch in the gut, "here I am, remember me!" sort of screaming, if the nerves in my back could literally scream. I have an appointment to see my doctor next ( Read more... )

Went to Urgent Care today to see what's wrong with my back. It has been causing me server pain for about a month now, so bad that I can't really do anything anymore without being in pain. Even lying down is painful. It has something to do with my sciatic nerve, because the little lightning bolts of pain run all down my left leg now and then. ( Read more... )

Today marks exactly one year since we closed on my grandma's house and I became a homeowner. I miss both of my grandmas so much, every day, and sometimes the ache doesn't ever seem to go away. But I know they must be happy for me, because we're still living here, and even if things aren't perfect, we're trying ( Read more... )

Last Tuesday I had my "catch-up" meeting with the president of our company. He told me I was the "quietest person at SPM by reputation" and that he had really been looking forward to meeting and getting to know me. We had a good conversation, and I left feeling very secure in my job situation. With the economy as weird as it is, and jobs ( Read more... )

It's been a rather busy day today, but a sleepy, restful weekend overall. Glad for the holiday today and the extra day off, plus I left work early on Friday to go to the Fair with my parents, so all in all it was a nice long weekend. Wish it hadn't seemed to pass so quickly, I'm really not ready to go back to work yet, but such is the way of ( Read more... )