Last post about health! (For a long time, I hope.)
First, it’s about me…
Over the last week, I’ve been walking as told by the doctors. I’m getting back into it. Today, I walked six miles with a 30 minute break in the middle. When I first got back, I was really stiff [...]
Photographic Evidence
The most requested on my facebook feeds: photos.
Yeah….no.
See, here’s how it works. I post a photo, then people draw hitler mustaches on it. Worst, they don’t even use photoshop. They use something like MS-Paint. And purple for the mustache.
Plus I had to shave for surgery and trim the hair to a [...]
A quick update – thing are going well. All the pain from the herniated disc is gone. The hip, where they harvested bone to fuse the vertabrae, is feeling better and I will probably be able to walk without a cane within a week.
The neck and shoulders are a little sore, [...]
The final diagnosis for my problem: a herniated disc.
Some things I’ve learned:
7mm is a big herniation
they can remove a disc and fuse your vertabrae in fewer than two hours
going off the medication in prep for surgery means late nights
Since this started, I’ve been waking up through the night and have to move and stretch before [...]
For the last four weeks, I’ve had a constant level of pain. Sometimes it’s extreme. Sometimes it’s little more than an ache. It’s all due to a herniated disc in my neck. That’s the current theory…which has changed each week in the last four.
This gave me a good reason to think [...]
