Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Damn you, herniations!
I’ve just discovered something I wasn’t overly sure about before. This is the first time in more than four years that I’ve been off pain meds, and for the last few days I’ve been having trouble getting to sleep because of, I thought, Restless Leg Syndrome or just plain ol’ achy legs. However, the pain has continued, but only in my left thigh. It was like, DUH!, the left thigh was my original herniated disk pain spot. It then spread down my left leg to my left calf, then left foot, then when it started moving to the right side, I got scared that I wouldn’t be able to drive if it affected my right foot, so that’s when we stopped trying therapy, steroids, and pain meds and decided that surgery was needed. Now, I don’t have insurance, so surgery is out. Not that I want surgery again - it was completely unenjoyable. But, crap, no more herniations. I already knew that besides the big bulge in the disk that was fixed, I had one other disk that was starting to go. However, since the location is different, I assume the pain would affect other areas, rather than completing ye olde L4-5 pain checklist. I could be wrong. I’ll go look it up after I post this. If I come up with anything interesting, I’ll let you “herniated disk” keyword people know. I know other people don’t really care, but I have met some really great people who found my blog because of my herniated disk posts. Hiya, Maegan! And dude in Australia, and other guy somewhere else. Okay, so I’ve only kept in touch with Maegan, but one good friend is worth annoying a bunch of other people with blog entries they don’t care to read. Plus, it’s my blog and all that. And, it’s NaBloPoMo, and I have to write something every day. Considering my life isn’t currently filled with fun activities and such, you get what you get.
Just a short little aside - did you guys know that Jet magazine is like Jet pamphlet now? We got a free subscription (hey, we’re interested in lots of stuff), and we were shocked to get the “magazine” and see how tiny and how few pages it has now. It’s like the “Airplane” reading material about famous Jewish athletes, although honestly, that would be much larger than the new Jet mag. It looks like one of those freebie tv guides you get at a convenience store. Next you’ll tell me that BET doesn’t exist anymore…or all they show are Tyler Perry movies. By the way, if anyone Black is reading this, could you tell me why those Tyler Perry movies make so much money? They mostly look the same, like Eddie Murphy dressing up in drag as a fat lady all the time…only it’s Tyler Perry and 2010, not Eddie and 1985.
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