Update

Things are good. Hetic right now but okay. The back is still pretty much the same, however the new pain and nerve meds are helping. I have had two great days in a row so I am crossing the fingers.

Getting ready for Scrapbooking Camp!!! Can't wait. Really looking forward to getting away and gettign creative for a while. Just finished Kaylin's goodies to give out to the class. I am quite pleased as how they turned out. Quick and simple is my motto right now!

I am home on Sunday afternoon and then head out to Toronto for 5 days. For work and a couple of vacation days. I am really looking forward to the vacation days. I need the break to hopefully de-stress.

That is my update! Will post pictures upon my return.

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The latest.

It has been quite a week and it is only Thursday night. I realized something thru this whole back problem that when you are in pain, it can just take over. I mean really take over. Everything! Patience? Forget about that...that just doesn't exist.

So, after I went to my physio on Monday she wrote me a note to explain to the doctor that some nerve meds might help calm down my poor leg. Go to the walk in clinic she tells me and give the my note. Seemed easy enough. Dropped my little one at school and arrive promptly at the opening of the clinic. Well I guess I was not prompt enought becuase I have about 6 people ahead of me. Did I mention yet that I have been going to this clinic for at least 13 years.? I am still waiting for them to paint it, and change the magazines in the waiting room etc and I am not sure if the fish tank has ever been cleaned.

In our world of the H1N1 crisis, do you think there was hand sanitizer anywhere to be seen? Nope NOTHING! It wasn't even in the patients room. I tell ya, I was getting grossed out by the minute. I refused to sit. I figure if I wasn't sick then, I was gonna get something after visiting this place. Did I mention that i am now sniffling??? Oh well, back to the visit. I wait 55mins to be seen and finally see the Doctor. Again, keep in mind, I have been coming to him for 13 years. So I told him my tale of woe and you think I was an addict asking for a fix. He did not even have the decency to read my note from my phsyio yet instead lectured me that they are trying to mask the problem with pills. Yep...you can imagine what I am thinking as he goes off on this little tirade. I am now thinking how I have wasted all this time, in this gross environment. He writes me a prescription for T3's. I tell that I am tired of being in pain and the tears start arrive. I don't want a prescription for those (heck I already have them at home) so I take my note and hit the door. Walked out...and not looking back. I will not step foot in that place again and neither will my children.

So.. to continue on, I went to my GP this afternoon and got the nerve medicince and a different type of pain killer. A CT scan has been ordered and I am told that this is a long time for recovery. Great just what I want to hear :-( I just want to see the light or at least some at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully it is coming soon.

Pain

Seems to be my first, middle and last name. Driving to work has become a problem. I can manage the first 20 mintues or so and after that the pain starts in and it is frankly unbelievable. I swear it is like a continual contraction in my calf. Oh well....hopefully between my physio and chiropractor they can find me some relief. They tell me it is not a bulging disk - thank you to my doctor who has no clue and problem is likely some type of nerve entrapment behind my knee which is causing me all this grief.

Between heat and ice packs, I am on a continual stream of pain killers and doing my best not to look loaded at work!! Ah..the joys of getting older.

Aside from this...all is well.

Hmmm maybe not......

$4800 for spinal decompression....looks like I will be sticking to ice and pain killers till I heal up. :-(

Ugh....well I guess that's why private = expensive!

The Bulging Disk

L5 to be exact...this is my problem child, the source of my friggin' pain and numbness all summer. Now how to treat is the issue. I am thinking Spinal Decompression. Sounds worse than it is. So..this is my next focus. I can only imagine how much this is gonna cost. Hopefully medical will cover it!

And so it all begins..........

The first day back to school always marks the beginning the the busy season and oh, I should say expensive season. Clothes, shoes, athletic equipment, sign up fees, school fees, it is endless. I should just leave blank cheques everywhere I go! Well we are back at it. Skating x2 a week, soccer x 2 practices a week, soccer games - 1X each Saturday and Sunday, Guitar lessons on Thursday and I am sure I am forgetting something!

Oh well.....as long as they are enjoying it. Here is the first day of school photo on the lawn. Kaylin is under the weather and it was all I could do to get a shot. (we were late and I left it to the last minute :-( Poor one of her but look at my boy. He looks like he belongs in high school! He was so excited to wear his new clothes. Don't ask what happened to this new shirt. You can probably guess, it involves a dog and the result is a hole and He still wants to wear it. Boys! Sheesh!

An Unexpected Surprise!

I got such a surprise today at work. A coworker of mine has a purse that I have literally drooled over for probably a year now. When she left our company to be a Stay At Home Mom, I remember thinking how I would miss her and her purse! Well she did not stay off long becuase before you know it she was back working part-time on a contract for us.

She is such a sweet person and has turned out to be such a good friend. She is one of these girls who would look great wearing a burlap bag and of course has the personality of a saint and did I mention she married a doctor? Not just any doctor...one that specializes in elder care! See I told told you a saint!!!!

Well she surprised me today and calls me on the phone...said...have you gone to lunch yet? I said no..thinking she wanted to have lunch or something. She said I need to see you so I'll be right up. Figuring it was an employee issue...I waited for her to pop up. Well no employee issue...she surprised me with a purse just like hers!

I was stunned! She told me that she had her sister bring it from Hong Kong and now we are purse buddies! I could not believe it. You can tell I love this friggin' purse. Knock off and all!

It was just such a sweet and unexpected surprise. It just made my whole summer!