My new umbrella arrived, yeah!
My new umbrella arrived, yeah! Silly but it’s one of those things I’ve been meaning to get for ages. I love walking but the older I get the harder it is for me to control my core temperature and the easier I burn. Don’t ask me how but I’ve been known to blister, badly I […]
13 days and counting………
Wow less than 2 weeks till we fly out. Getting a bit nervous now. Am I doing the right thing? Do I really need this surgery? Can we really afford it? Will it just help or will it actually solve the problem? Will I even survive? The pain in my back had been pretty bad […]
So what is pain anyway?
So what is pain anyway? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pain is an unpleasant feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli, such as stubbing a toe, burning a finger, putting alcohol on a cut, and bumping the "funny bone". The International Association for the Study of Pain's widely used definition states: "Pain is an […]
20 days and counting……
20 days and counting till we leave for Barcelona, wow less than 3 weeks now! Been a long day today, didn’t take anything to help me sleep last night and was awake again at 5 am, it sucks! I am NOT a morning person (ask Tim) and when your back hurts too it’s a double […]
M6 Artificial Disc Replacement
Anatomy of an M6 Artificial Disc Well here I am between the devil and the deep blue sea, between a rock and a hard place, between…… you get the idea. Anyone who has been reading this blog knows I have been battling back pain and Degenerative Disc Disease for a canny few years now. My […]
The results are in and it’s not all in my head!
Well, not exactly anyway. I'm sure there's a lot rattling around in there that a lot of people have questioned over the years but this at least is real, and I can prove it ;o) The results from the MRI are in and although it's not the best of news it's not that bad either, […]
Successful Surgery
Monday, October 26th and we had to get up waaaay to early!! I was due at the hospital at 7:30am so had to be up at 6am to shower and it takes about 45 minutes to get to the hospital and we wanted an additional 15 minutes for rush hour traffic. Yes, it’s one of […]
More Back Surgery
Well for those of you that don’t follow me on FaceBook I thought I’d let you all know what’s up. My back has been playing up for the last three months and my Orthopedic surgeon sent me for physio but it only helped about 70%. Then Sunday I went to lift something, twisted wrong and […]