I've had lots of years in my life when the "spirit of the season" and the family time and church and all that mushy stuff was meaningful and special and needed. LOTS. But this year, I have kind of felt "above it all" for some reason. I love my family and adore my husband and animals and home and all that, but I was (up until tonight) perfectly ( Read more... )

If you're not into reading about other people's health issues and symptoms, please skip over this post. Kthx ( Read more... )

Well, I just had my follow-up for the latest injections for my back pain - here's the whole scoop:

What we learned from the latest procedure:
The fact that the latest injection (to my SI joint) didn't work means my problem isn't in that area. Think about that for a second... if it didn't relieve pain, then the pain didn't originate there... Ta ( Read more... )

Just a quick note. I've been on this computer waaay too long already, so I'll go back and read everybody's stuff tomorrow ( Read more... )

Hey LJ folks (& family) - I just wanted to let you all know that I'm alive and well and survived the family trip with lots of good memories to take home with me. I apologize that I'm going to be a few weeks behind for a while on reading your posts because... (here's the declaration part)... I've decided that I've been wallowing in self-pity for ( Read more... )