09-18-08 – More Pain

I spent most of today alternating between my sofa and my bed after burning a vacation day because I could hardly move this morning.  I had gotten to the point where the pain wasn’t as bad, but I think the backtracking I did on my meal plans, food logging and walking over the past several [...]

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09-17-08 – The Return of Pain

I think I pulled or twisted something which has exacerbated my back, hip and leg pain.  I got out of a meeting at work yesterday, and I was standing in the hallway talking to a co-worker about the wonderful Presidential election going on (she’s for Obama, I’m for NOTA).  So, we agreed that, in general, [...]

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07-16-08 – A painful, stressful day

My back and hip are hurting more today than they have been recently.  I don’t remember doing anything to aggravate it.  I think it’s all stress-related.  I’ve been trying to get a project done at work, and I’ve been scrambling trying to make sure everything works (I work in IT).  Today, I finally got the [...]

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07-15-08 – Didn’t make the second walk today

I made it out for a lunchtime walk today, but didn’t get out again tonight.  My back and hip are bothering me, plus for some reason I’m just really tired.  I’m not trying to make excuses here, I just hurt too much to make it out tonight.  I’ll try again tomorrow.
This Friday is colonoscopy day, [...]

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06-27-08 – Follow-up appointment for back pain

I had a follow-up appointment with the back pain specialist today.  Actually, the appointment ended up being with his nurse practitioner.  My lower back pain is better, and I’m not having the shooting pain down my leg anymore.  My pain is concentrated in the hip area.  I’ve also been having pain in my upper back [...]

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06-25-08

I had a pretty hard, intense day at work today.  Testing for the projects I’m working on has not been going well, so I’ve had to remove both projects from this Friday’s go-live date.  Fortunately, it’s not imperative that the date be met, or else I’d still be at work right now, and I’d be [...]

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05-07-08 – Another day, another round of pain

Today was a crappy day from a pain standpoint.  I guess the one good thing to say about it is I’m about to go to bed.  Laying down has been the most comfortable position lately.  I was also bad on the eating this afternoon.  I didn’t hit the vending machine once, I hit it twice [...]

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Forgot to write last night!

I’ve been posting to this blog on an almost daily basis since I started, at least during the week, but I see that I forgot to post last night!  I was really tired, so I guess it just slipped my mind.  Anyway, I woke up this morning with more lower back and right leg pain [...]

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05-05-08 – Appointment with Pain Specialist

I had the appointment with the back pain management specialist this afternoon.  He concurs with my family doctor that I should get an epidural injection.  He told me that spondylolysis is a birth defect, which I didn’t know.  I did find this article on Back.com that says it occurs mostly with young athletes.  I thought [...]

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05-04-08 – A New Kidney for my friend!

One of my oldest friends, who’s been known as Irish J in this blog (I have to think of a better nickname for him!) has Polycystic Kidney Disease and has been on the kidney transplant for over two years. In addition, he has been on dialysis for close to a year. He got [...]

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