So how are YOU today?

Worrying about Deb. This was posted something like 3 hours ago. Nothing since. I just hope she's sleeping (though it's rather early - going on for 9 pm.)

Deb -- Are you icing your back religiously? I went through a similar episode a few years ago and couldn't make any headway on improvement until about 2 weeks into it when I finally forced myself to ice my lower back 20mins out of every hour for a couple days as directed by my doc. Only then was I able to start the stretching exercises that they'd given me.

Sorry you're going through this hell.

Oh sheeeeeit Deb - so sorry you're still suffering - are you still taking the muscle relaxants? anti-imflammatories???? I wish it were Monday for you and that you could see the doc now and have the scans -

oh - so sorry you are going thru this - pain is pain is pain - f*ing intense pain is even worse

wishing you WELL

Eep... really worried about Deb. One of those things where you really wish we could hook her up to some machine that would transport the pain OUT of her back and we could each take on a little bit of it. I'd probably be good for 10% or so before I started the wailing business.

Sounds so awful.

soz, wonder if it would help Deb to see a D.O. They treat the whole person and not just the symptoms. My son took away pain from my lower left shoulder that I had been having for months by one proper massage.

Major pain killers, a valium and two scotch later, I went to sleep.

Feeling somewhat better....but I am just a bit scared cos it seems I really cannot work....I only worked from 9.30 to 4.00 yesterday, but it took things back almost to the beginning....just like it did Monday.


Sorry for the big moan!!!

I CAN do my exercises.

I am ok with household stuff...I only can't clean!!! My friends would happily do stuff, but I don't need that (I am better mobilizing round the house...it just seems that work makes me walk and sit too much, and that seems to destroy things.)


My friends are way too busy to clean....I need to get someone in, when I have the energy.

Yeah, that's the sucky part about being indispensable, as someone already noted.

Glad you're basically OK-ish (well, if OK-ish includes dealing with excruciating pain) and that you can do your exercises.

... but ... but ... but that's a very long day given that it's not a job that allows you to arrange yourself the way you need to physically right now.

A little bit of sitting, a little bit of cleaning, a little bit of leaning however feels good ... a little bit of whiskey ... a little bit of mobilizing ... that's more like what your back needs right now


Has the physio or doc talked about whether you're at the heating or cooling stage and when the switch should happen?

Definitely heating...NO cooling.

ONLY!!??? Whadya mean only? That's a full day's work.

Bunny, I'm begging you (well, pleading very hard). Pleeeeze take care of yourself. Please be kind to yourself. Please stop pushing yourself beyond the limit.

I feel helpless half the planet away.

We feel just as helpless - and much closer than half a planet! (well - I'm only half a continent away - and Ms O is a tad closer!)

Stuff the housework, I tell you.....

I'm very glad you got some sleep, anyway, Deb ... & I hope you managed more, overnight!

Please stop apologising for "moaning"! You're in an awful, painful predicament, with no idea of when its likely to end. And you're not moaning, you're venting! You're entitled!

Here's hoping today is a little easier for you. A few thoughts: What about if your doctor & the physio say you need complete rest from work... & that you follow their advice?
Then do whatever they say you should do and buy some of the healthiest frozen dinners you can find (you can cope with this for a little bit! ) .... THEN ring one of those cleaning places & arrange for a once-weekly tidy up - for just the important stuff that really bothers you when left undone.

THEN do as little as possible - at home & at work (preferably no work for as long as advised!) - and focus 100% on getting better!

You can read all those books you've been meaning to read, have a bit of time to think & to scratch yourself,even .... listen to your favourite music, have some of those movies you've been meaning to watch delivered by a friend ..... Miranda would be absolutely delighted with this new state of affairs & you'd get better!

Seriously, Deb, think about it?

So how is it today, Deb?

Seconds msolga on her query.

I'm so ******* bored I wanna kill myself just to liven the day up!!!

Can't find a THING I want to read.

The thing that gives me music in my room of exile is attached to a electric board that has stopped working. I assume the plug has come out of the wall, but it's behind a full filing cabinet so I ain't trying to find out.

Anyway, I probably couldn't find any music I want anyway.

I can't think of any DVD I could bear to watch.

The highlight of my day will be going out to buy more drugs.

I crawled around vacuuming on my hands and knees yesterday, but I think it made me a teensy bit worse, so I'd better not finish.

I don't actually want to talk to anyone, because I think I'd pull their teeth out through the phone for sadistic purposes because THAT'S the mood I'm in.


I have a report to write for work, but I can't sit to type for longer than a couple of minutes.

I feel like I've put on sixty poounds from enforced blobdom....


I think I am a TERRIBLE invalid.


A REALLY terrible invalid.


That ******* doctor better give me some decent painkillers so I can sleep.

The pain isn't so bad as long as I don't DO anything...except I apparently DO things in my sleep, which make it hurt a lot.

I think this involves the major excitement of sleeping on the bad side, or stretching my bad leg out.

Woooeeeee.


My exercises are making me infinitely well acquainted with the dirt on my carpet.


I HATE LIFE!!!!

Why can't I be an angelic invalid like Beth in Little Women?

If you put Beth near me, I'd torture her with hot tweezers until she swore.

I am a bad person.

I probably DESERVE a fucked disk.

I know I ought to be playing the glad game and thinking of the suffering of the millions of starving children and abused women.

BUT I JUST DON'T CARE.

Aren't you glad you asked?

OK, but other than that, how ya doin'?

Well, those were the good bits.

Yes, I am!

That was terrific, Deb!

Bravo!

So, work tomorrow, or not, then?

And stop trying to fix or clean anything, or I'll send a posse around to your house to deal with you! Then you'll be REALLY sorry!

Vacuuming, she mumbles, astonished...