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I don’t have a herniated disk, but when they showed that new store-bought replacement disk on CSI a while back I wanted it so bad!
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Hope things get better for you, and that you learn how to deal with all that negative stuff around you as well.
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Y’all are the best. It’s so good to finally get a little encouragement from someone besides my Dr. (who is getting paid handsomely by Blue Cross and myself to be encouraging!). What is it about people that makes them want to tell you these horror stories? I’ve never been pregnant, but my friends who have been report the same experience- horror stories about labor, birth defects, and worse. Maybe it’s just the people I hang out with!
Oh katie1341, the trick is NEVER tell the truth when something like this happens!
When the folks at the court house see you walking funny, have a story prepared for each and every one of them:
- I had anal sex last night for the first time and it hurts like hell.
- Harboiled’leggs…cheapo Walmart pantyhose, makes me walk like this all the time.
- I’m taking posture lessons and lost the book that was on my head.
- I was practicing gymnastics in the garage and botched the dismount from the sawhorse.
- Slept like a log, but sadly I also slept ON a log last night.
- Doctor botoxed the wrong cheeks.
and…you get the idea…actually kind of fun as people start to compare stories and the stories start to get wilder and wilder. Pretty soon no one even cares what the real story is.
I hurt my shoulder a few years back and by the time all the stories came together, I had punched out Sylvester Stallone in a drag bar after lifting a piano off a three legged cat.
P.S. I too tend to avoid doctors who had a booth at Burning Man.
Katie,
The doctor told me that I had to have back surgery to “fix” the problems that were giving me sciatica. If I didn’t, i’d be in a wheel chair by the time I was 30.
That was 20 years ago. Not when they told me…when I was 30. They told me that 31 years ago. Still no wheelchair except after surgery or a real bad chemo session.
Allow the back to heal, work with a rehab therapist to build the muscles surrounding the affected area, and BE CAREFUL. There are big muscular people out there that can do the lifting and shoving and all that macho stuff. YOu just ignore the horror stories, or else mentally add “and there was a HOOK left in his butt when the doctor vanished.” One urban legend or another…