My back has been hurting off and on for 2 weeks now. I tried all combinations of therapies I could think of. I thought cold compress was the solution, but it stopped working after 2 days. I think there was some swelling, co the cold compressed heped, but the sewlling was a symptom, not the cause.
I saw the surgeon last Thursday, and he said that its not fair that you get your hips replaced and then your back starts to hurt. I sae the Chiro today, and I think we have a good model of what is going on. I see a spine specialist tomorrow, and we'll see if she confirms this model.
Essentially, vertebrae L3 is stiff. The flesh around it is compensating for L3. And it could be that L3 is touching L2 or L4 (a misalignment), so they are moving as one unit. So these bones are not moving in concert with the flesh, so the flesh gets irratated with the pressure exerted on then every time I move.
So, to change this, I have some extra exercises to do. I need to bend side to side, and lean on a counter while flexing my waist front to back. (NOT AT THE SAME TIME!!). I am already seeing a good effect.
I haven';t got much done these last two weeks because I have been in pain, and the pain makes me tired.
There are two textual games that I really like: Super Text Twist and Boggle. I have these as software apps on my computer. I have found something new in Boggle. It is called Match Play. It allows me to compete with people, one on one, across the whole world. I have played with people from Salvador, Germany and India. I thought I was good at this game, but these people are really giving me something to shoot for. You get a rating that indicates how good you are. My rating is consistantly going up, but there are always people at a hire rating to compete with. We don't get to pick who with play against. The computer does it based on trying to match ratings of players that are playing RIGHT NOW. My rating is currently about 2050.
As a result of this, I am learning a lot of new words, and I am getting better at reading text in a 2D spacial justification on a grid. It is a good brain work out.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Birthday
I am now officially 58, even though I have been saying I was for many months now. I remember long ago calculating that when the new millenia, I would be 48. I wondered about what changes there would be in the world. Here I am now, plus 10 more years. Things change fast. People stay the same. I am glad to be alive.
I pray for my President Obama, he has a tough go of it. I am sure he will do well. I don't like Sarah Palin, but she has a good chance at becoming the REP. Party's choice in 2012. I like Ron Paul. I think I will help him campaign. Most people don't know that he is anti-Irag-War. He seems like an independent, but he is GOP. But everyone likes him because he is a man of integrity. That is what I like about him, too.
I pray for my President Obama, he has a tough go of it. I am sure he will do well. I don't like Sarah Palin, but she has a good chance at becoming the REP. Party's choice in 2012. I like Ron Paul. I think I will help him campaign. Most people don't know that he is anti-Irag-War. He seems like an independent, but he is GOP. But everyone likes him because he is a man of integrity. That is what I like about him, too.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
WARNING - GROSS IMAGES WITHIN
7 AUG seepage
8 AUG incision
8 AUG seepage
AUG 9 seepage
11 AUG incision
11 AUG seepage
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
What happened to me?
I need to record this.
I have been feeling very good for 2 or 3 days now. I have been trying to eat things according to "The Diet Solution", which I have just recently purchased. I was feeling great, with a good attitude and lots of energy. I was getting a lot done, and healing at an incredible rate. It has only been a week since I had a new left hip installed, and the doctors and physical therapists are amazed at how much I was able to do at this point.
Then Emily got back from shopping, and brought Taco Bell. I ate to my limit, but not over my limit, giving the excess to the dog. Shortly thereafter, I got really tired. I did not lay down, but that's all I wanted to do. I continued loading my CDs into iTunes for about 3 hours
I was hungry, so I had a small bottle of Boost energy drink. 30 minutes later, I had another, and a banana.
Then Emily thawed out one of the homemade frozen dinners that a nice family had made for me. I thought she was going to give me some much later, but she brought it to me only shortly after eating the banana.
It was sweet and sour chicken. It was not very sweet, just a hint of flavor. She gave me a full bowl of rice, with 2 pieces of chicken (not small, not large). I decided to eat it while it was warm. When I was done, I could feel that I had over-eaten.
I was so tired, I could not stay awake. This was around 8:30 PM. So I went to bed, using just a sheet to cover me, like I normally do. During the nap, I became so cold, it woke me up enough to cover myself with my very thick quilt. Then I quickly fell back asleep.
I had a dream that I was in some kind of school. After a while in the dream, I found myself in the dormitories. I was in the room of a friend, when a stranger came in. He had piercings all over his body. His mustache appeared to grow straight down from his nose, passing through a metal ring, before curling up the to the left and right. He attacked the other guy in the room, then me. It was an awful struggle. It was like I could see into his mind. He thought people were attacking him, so he was defending himself, but it was actually he that was the aggressor.
I left the room, screaming for help. I was yelling this phrase over and over again: "He's going to poison me!". I ran to an intersection of 2 hallways. People were coming out of their rooms because of all the noise, and approaching me from all directions. I was freaking out.
Then my daughter Emily woke me up from the dream. It took her a good minute to wake me up. From her perspective, I started yelling help, first softly, then louder and louder until she could her me over the movie she was watching in her room. As she came into my room, that must have been the part where I was in the hallway intersection. She heard me say "Don't get near me!". Once I was awake, Emily asked if I wanted to get up. I said "I am just so tired", and went back to sleep. I woke up later, I don't know how much later.
The reason I did not want to get up was because I was so cold. I couldn't bear to get out of the blankets. Emily checked the thermometer, and it said it was just under 80 degrees in the apartment. When I got up, it was 11:30 - 3 hours later. My temperature was 98.7 and my blood sugar was 191. I found a pillow accross the room - evidently I had thrown it.
I find the phrase "He's poisoning me" very interesting, like my body was screaming to the world that I was poisoning it.
I learned in the last 6 weeks that using Monster energy drinks gave me strong anxiety symptoms after only 3 days, drinking 1 can a day.
So: No more fast food for me
I have been feeling very good for 2 or 3 days now. I have been trying to eat things according to "The Diet Solution", which I have just recently purchased. I was feeling great, with a good attitude and lots of energy. I was getting a lot done, and healing at an incredible rate. It has only been a week since I had a new left hip installed, and the doctors and physical therapists are amazed at how much I was able to do at this point.
Then Emily got back from shopping, and brought Taco Bell. I ate to my limit, but not over my limit, giving the excess to the dog. Shortly thereafter, I got really tired. I did not lay down, but that's all I wanted to do. I continued loading my CDs into iTunes for about 3 hours
I was hungry, so I had a small bottle of Boost energy drink. 30 minutes later, I had another, and a banana.
Then Emily thawed out one of the homemade frozen dinners that a nice family had made for me. I thought she was going to give me some much later, but she brought it to me only shortly after eating the banana.
It was sweet and sour chicken. It was not very sweet, just a hint of flavor. She gave me a full bowl of rice, with 2 pieces of chicken (not small, not large). I decided to eat it while it was warm. When I was done, I could feel that I had over-eaten.
I was so tired, I could not stay awake. This was around 8:30 PM. So I went to bed, using just a sheet to cover me, like I normally do. During the nap, I became so cold, it woke me up enough to cover myself with my very thick quilt. Then I quickly fell back asleep.
I had a dream that I was in some kind of school. After a while in the dream, I found myself in the dormitories. I was in the room of a friend, when a stranger came in. He had piercings all over his body. His mustache appeared to grow straight down from his nose, passing through a metal ring, before curling up the to the left and right. He attacked the other guy in the room, then me. It was an awful struggle. It was like I could see into his mind. He thought people were attacking him, so he was defending himself, but it was actually he that was the aggressor.
I left the room, screaming for help. I was yelling this phrase over and over again: "He's going to poison me!". I ran to an intersection of 2 hallways. People were coming out of their rooms because of all the noise, and approaching me from all directions. I was freaking out.
Then my daughter Emily woke me up from the dream. It took her a good minute to wake me up. From her perspective, I started yelling help, first softly, then louder and louder until she could her me over the movie she was watching in her room. As she came into my room, that must have been the part where I was in the hallway intersection. She heard me say "Don't get near me!". Once I was awake, Emily asked if I wanted to get up. I said "I am just so tired", and went back to sleep. I woke up later, I don't know how much later.
The reason I did not want to get up was because I was so cold. I couldn't bear to get out of the blankets. Emily checked the thermometer, and it said it was just under 80 degrees in the apartment. When I got up, it was 11:30 - 3 hours later. My temperature was 98.7 and my blood sugar was 191. I found a pillow accross the room - evidently I had thrown it.
I find the phrase "He's poisoning me" very interesting, like my body was screaming to the world that I was poisoning it.
I learned in the last 6 weeks that using Monster energy drinks gave me strong anxiety symptoms after only 3 days, drinking 1 can a day.
So: No more fast food for me
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