Last year, I spent the better part of the year with pretty bad back pain. Well, not really back pain, but hip, thigh and knee pain, but the cause was back! While I knew something was definitely wrong, three x-rays, two CT's, and two MRI's didn't spot it. Five injections, a round of physical therapy, chiropractic manipulation, therapeutic massage, pain shots and opioids didn't help it, either. I did lose some weight though, which was a good thing, but I lost a lot of my hair too, which was not a good thing.
Thankfully, there was a doctor willing to play a hunch that I might have a bone fragment pressing into my spine and so he operated this January, and it turned out, he was right!! I spent four months of this year in a back brace, but now I am playing pickleball again!! It feels like a miracle to me!!
Anyhow, I am posting this so I can look back and remember what was going on at this time in my life. Sort of like a journal. It is my first and only post so far for 2017. Hopefully, there will be more, but looking back at my post history, it is probably more likely that this is it for this year.
But I end this post free of pain and with a smile. These are great times we are living in.
