Doctor said I need a backiotomy
Ugh. I’m going to my primary doctor today to get a referral for Novacare who, hopefully, will fix my back. It’s not getting any better and I spent a good deal of yesterday laid out on the floor trying not to move.
I had being old.
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This lacks the thingsthatwillkillhutch tag.
Seriously, though, that sucks. If it’s any consolation, my shoulder is sore from playing disc golf yesterday. You should play it with me sometime, since it doesn’t involve hurting yourself nearly as much.
Let’s see if anyone’s willing to walk on your back for you. I bet Sammy will gladly put on his cleats.
We already offered to have my kids walk on his back for him but he declined.
My sympathy is also fairly muted since my body is still recovering from the lingering effects of John’s loose scotch pouring hand which apparently was NOT impacted adversely by this back injury.
hahahahahahh! Behold!
Kev’s hair started very neatly combed back. With each drink, it grew more wild.
(sighs happily at your adorable banter and thinks about scotch at 10:30 on a Monday morning)
Kevin said:We already offered to have my kids walk on his back for him but he declined.
I would also like to formally offer my services to walk on Hutch’s back as well.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!
John said:WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!
That is the funniest of the results from a Google image search for “chiropractor”. I think it is enough to convince me to change my ways when it comes to dealing with back pain.
Ok, so uh…. I’M GOING TO A CHIROPRACTOR. Damnit. My skeptic’s nature hates my primary care doctor at the moment. But at least the dude I’m going to is also a Physical Therapist which is mostly what I’m going for. I don’t think he’s going to be cracking my bones or anything. Just telling me what stretches and stuff I should do.
If it eases your mind at all, not all chiropractors are “high-impact”. My guy only does the full body bone crack if a joint is being really stubborn and he can’t get it with his tool, which is like a little pneumatic hammer thing. He also never cracks my neck (my old guy did), he gets everything into place through relaxation and gravity.
god, if it wasn’t so disturbing, i’d mention that it almost looks like kev is staring as gosia’s boobs. but it’s disturbing so i won’t mention it. maybe he was staring at john’s.
let’s have a scotch party at my place and we can all boob-stare.
While I can see where that disturbing scenario would come to mind when viewing that picture, let me assure you Mandy I wasn’t staring at anything that wasn’t within 1 inch of my face because I think that was pretty much at the point where I couldn’t see anything.
Kevin said:While I can see where that disturbing scenario would come to mind when viewing that picture, let me assure you Mandy I wasn’t staring at anything that wasn’t within 1 inch of my face because I think that was pretty much at the point where I couldn’t see anything.
i’ve been there. it is extremely fun and amusing and it hurts in the morning.
Dude streched things out, but electric pads that jolted the muscles for 20 minutes or so, and made my back crack, like, 50,000 times. One twist one way, one twist another way, then pushing down. No neck or anything, which was a relief. Then he told me stretches I should and shouldn’t be doing, told me the amount of muscle relaxers I should be taking, and told me to do 10 minutes cold, 10 minutes hot, 10 minutes cold every coupla hours every day.
My back definitely feels better.
Whether it was the cracking, the stretching, the electric jolts, the pain killers, the cold/hot/cold, or all of the above, I dunno. But my back definitely seems a bit better already.
I’m supposed to go back tommorrow and at least two or three more times, though. Which has me rather uneasy. Plus it’s $30 a pop with my copay.
Well, of course you think you feel better. Your brain lump of Comparative Sagacity has the same width as that of a carriage wheelwrighter.
Really, I don’t know where I stand on chiropractors. I’m a skeptic until I actually hurt myself, at which point I become a mewling wreck and look everywhere for something to help me. If it makes you feel better, that’s good.
So by the time I left work today, my back was hurting just as much as any other day.
So today’s visit felt like a complete fraud. I went in there and he put some electrodes on my back to zap my muscles and left me there for I don’t know how long. I honestly don’t. I fell asleep on the table.
Then he came and with only a few sparse words, cracked my back and said “see you next week.” Fucking, seriously? That’s it? And how much are you being paid on top of my $30 copay? I went to find out some things I could do to fix my back. So far, all I’ve gotten out of him was “icy hot and hot/cold compresses.” Every time I ask him about stretches and/or exercises, he deflects and says we’ll talk about it next time, dont’ want to strain the muscles n’ all.
Now my back is actually hurting more than usual thanks largely to a particularly powerful sneeze. C’mon, pro-Chiro people. Should I be feeling less scammed that I do right now?
you should try living in a bubble