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Cass, for some reason, I had your pain filed as being lower back pain. The flexeril is doing you good for your neck, even though they think it's a pinched nerve? Hmmm. Yeah, I am probably calling my doctor on Monday.
Raq, I think reading "Bloodbath and Beyond" made my day.
Cass, you may want to get an MRI at some point, just to be sure it isn't a disc thing. Granted, if it *is* a disc thing, the choice of treatment may well be PT -- but I think PT for a disc thing is different than that for a pinched nerve.
Cass, for some reason, I had your pain filed as being lower back pain.
I did, too.
Cindy, please invest in a pillow and go see your doctor.Yes to the pillow, the doctor is a maybe. He's a maybe, because I've been going through this periodically since February '95, when I first had the accident. And he knows, and the advice is never different. If I thought I'd done something new, I'd have already been there.
He may have the same advice as ever but this is going on too long.Tomorrow will be a week since I woke up in pain, but it's waxed and waned during the week.
Your whole family is limping along right now. Take care of yourself.
Yes and yes. And thank you. I don't mean any of the above to be snippy. It's just largely the same old same old for me. I'm just beaten down by the craptacular summer we've had.
You really have had a tough one.
I'm just beaten down by the craptacular summer we've had.
Completely understandable.
My biology book just came! After all that fuss the other night, it's the US edition after all. I must have gotten that e-mail by mistake.
Cindy, not using anything really on my finger as I can't actually see any puncture sites (and it didn't bleed or anything). Mostly I'm just keeping an eye on it. And it's nothing that needs Vicodin or Flexeril, so I'm much better off than most people on the board, it seems. Even with the outbreak of shingles on my face this past week. Effing viruses.
Also, you can find cervical neck roll pillows at lots of different places. I think most department stores and probably even Target carry a brand of some sort. (Although I am Tempurpedic's bitch so I highly recommend them although they're very pricey.)
Plus, you could probably use muscle work of some kind (massage, chiro, PT) to reduce some of the scar tissue and "reeducate" your muscles.
I also thought Cass' pain was low back. Odd. Glad nothing seems overtly problematic, though.
Oh, and he's totally got a great baseball name.
He so totally does! Except he can't be a closer for the A's, but otherwise, great baseball name.
Cass, glad you went to the doctor, and glad there is relief in sight. I'd rub your back were it not for geographical difficulties.
I actually do keep meaning to get massage training/license. It's something I'm good at, and while I don't know that I'd like it as a job, I like doing it.
I'm in one of those introspective, write-y moods, which no good ever comes of. So with Mal finally asleep, I think I'm going to try to draw some.
Even with the outbreak of shingles on my face this past week. Effing viruses.Eeek. Did you see a doctor? Did you get on the anti-viral in time? Is it well away from your eyes?
Plus, you could probably use muscle work of some kind (massage, chiro, PT) to reduce some of the scar tissue and "reeducate" your muscles.
I think so. I also think I have to stop falling asleep on the couch, and get myself to bed, when I'm too tired to keep my eyes open. I *knew* I was falling asleep last week. My neck was already in an uncomfortable position and I thought, "Hmmm. I should probably get up, and go up to the nice bed," and then didn't. Dh was staying up, waiting to take his medicine for his Lyme disease, and I then I fell asleep.
Raq, how long until he's sitting up well enough for a high chair?
I praise the Graco Overlords every day for the battery op baby swing: it lets Lillian have dinner with us, or rather, it keeps us in view while we eat, and makes it so she's only minorly grumpy at being out of the action. I do think she now thinks her parents are her jesters, and the swing her queenly throne, but that's a small price to pay.
I also think I have to stop falling asleep on the couch, and get myself to bed
Yep. I don't even have a neck injury, and I almost gave myself one falling asleep with my head on the arm of the couch. Take care of yourself!
Raq, how long until he's sitting up well enough for a high chair?
He can actually sit in a high chair now, although I haven't set ours up (I'm waiting until the last of the guests departs in a couple weeks). Most mealtimes, he sits in his papasan overlooking us, although he's ended a couple meals sitting on my lap and exploring plates and glasses and such. That just wasn't going to happen tonight - if I set him down anywhere, he howled.
Huh - I suppose it could've been gas. He never seems to get it, so I don't really think about it, but that might explain why he wanted to be held and jounced.
My question was more a meta-question, though...I usually feel like this parenting thing is going pretty well. Mallory's teaching us about himself, and we are quick learners. But sometimes there just doesn't seem to be any right answer that I can figure out, and I wonder. I suppose anything short of downing shots whenever the baby cries is not too bad, though.