so it sounds like we share a spine! i've never had scoliosis, though, but the curve in my neck is (was? i don't know, i have to get more x-rays to see if it's improved) pretty much backwards and i have at least three herniated discs. i too am a narrowing degenerate, lindsey! i'm sure you've had many, many people looking at your back, but when i was in the hospital after my accident, the doctor's who looked at my x-rays and cat scans told me that i had a "deviation" in my spine, but that it was probably natural. then i saw our family doctor in michigan, who told me that the results of my mri showed that i had arthritis in my spine. i was like... wtf? how? how can i hurt this bad, can't even support my own head because of arthritis? and this arthritis came on with a serious fury just after being hit by a car? wha? then i went home with my mri results, and dictionary.com and i looked up some things and got pretty confused, and wondered why words like "disease" were being tossed around on paperwork about me, but not being used when speaking to me about my back. ANYWAY, i got more tests and saw an actual chiropractor/physical therapist who was the first person to actually SHOW ME what my spine looked like and explain things to me. ... anyway, i hope i don't sound too self-indulgent here, i wanted to comment on your body post before. i won't pretend to know how it feels to go through everything you have, but what you said about fearing how you'll feel in the future -- that i totally get. i'm twenty-three and i have the kind of back pain, what, 45 year olds complain of? at the end of the month i'll be discharged from physical therapy after nine months of treatment because i've reached "medical recovery" or whatever the term is, but that just means they've done all they can. i mean, things are definitely improved since i started, but... that's it. i still find myself shifting in my seat, twisting, trying to crack bones that won't sit comfortably while i'm standing, and that's as good as it gets, i guess.
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THAT SHIZ ASIDE: congrats on the moving business. i know you're really excited for the new place, and i hope it's good. michelle and i moved about a week ago. sweatiest i've ever been IN MY LIFE. never move to the third floor of anything, if you can help it.
wah wah wahhhh,
<3 debbie downer
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congrats on the moving business. i know you're really excited for the new place, and i hope it's good. michelle and i moved about a week ago. sweatiest i've ever been IN MY LIFE. never move to the third floor of anything, if you can help it.
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