Life is painful
Life has been a drugged out blur. Friday, the ambulance and hospital. Saturday and Sunday are blurry, painful memories of not much. Monday I went to a physical therapist who was able to get me to stand up straight. He told me to start icing every two hours and up the Advil to stop the acute pain. That helped a lot. Nat had to support most of my weight when I hobbled in, but I was able to walk out on my own, standing mostly upright. Tuesday I went to a doctor who also thought I probably slipped a disk. He ordered an MRI. Then I saw my acupuncturist who didn't use electro-stem this time. It seemed to help some. Then she had this massage therapist come into the room, I guess she's really good with cranial sacral work. She stuck her hand on my back and said, "Wow, that's gotta hurt." Then she stuck her fingers in my sacrum and wiggled it around until the pain was very acute in one spot, rather than spread out around my lower back. Which I guess is good. Then my acupuncturist had me stand up and she bled my right leg. Apparently I had a build up of "black blood" or blood that had pooled in my leg.
Today I had an MRI. Magnets are cool. My images are not. I haven't had them evaluated by a doctor yet (that's this afternoon with a general doc, then later with a spine specialist). But Nat and I looked at them. It looks to us as if the disk between L4 and L5 is bulging out and pinching the holy shit out of my spinal cord. The disk between L4 and L3 doesn't look so great either, but it isn't bulging like the other one.
I have another appointment with my acupuncturist today, I know she plans on bleeding the other leg and who knows what else. Then the general doc.
I feel like it's sort of getting better. Or at least it is getting less horribly painful. However, I'm still taking Oxy and Advil like candy. I can only sleep on one side (slipped disk side) and I can only sleep for about seven hours (which is plenty, I know) until the medication wears off and I have to get up and take more pills and ice my back again.
WEll, that's life for now.
Today I had an MRI. Magnets are cool. My images are not. I haven't had them evaluated by a doctor yet (that's this afternoon with a general doc, then later with a spine specialist). But Nat and I looked at them. It looks to us as if the disk between L4 and L5 is bulging out and pinching the holy shit out of my spinal cord. The disk between L4 and L3 doesn't look so great either, but it isn't bulging like the other one.
I have another appointment with my acupuncturist today, I know she plans on bleeding the other leg and who knows what else. Then the general doc.
I feel like it's sort of getting better. Or at least it is getting less horribly painful. However, I'm still taking Oxy and Advil like candy. I can only sleep on one side (slipped disk side) and I can only sleep for about seven hours (which is plenty, I know) until the medication wears off and I have to get up and take more pills and ice my back again.
WEll, that's life for now.