Jacked up

Want to feel old?

About 9-10 months ago, I slipped on the stairs. Nothing spectacular, but I landed on my bottom. BTDT, no big deal. After a couple of days, the soreness was gone.

After that, every once in a while my lower back would hurt when it shouldn't. We went roller skating with the kids. No, I didn't fall -but the next day I could barely get out of the bed. Then when we moved this summer, my back was killing me the whole time. During my DIY home projects (painting and sewing), I was in so much pain I could hardly bear it. Finally, I went to the doc about it.

She first thought it was muscular. Gave me muscle relaxers and asked me to go give physical therapy a shot. The muscle relaxers didn't do much of anything, and I couldn't bear the thought of PT. I gave it a few weeks, but it just got worse. It was hurting all. the. time. It was starting to affect daily stuff. So back to the doc. She ordered a MRI.

I got those results - 2 bulging discs (L2-3 and L 4-5) and an annular tear at L4-5. Um, no wonder. She referred me to an orthopedic surgeon.

I saw the ortho about a week ago. Thankfully, he didn't go right to surgery for me. If you do any reading about back surgery, the odds of improvement aren't that great. So he suggested that I try everything else (PT, yoga, injections, voo doo) first, and then think long and hard about it if nothing is working.

Now I am a physical therapy patient. Yes, I finally took the plunge. They evaluated me this week, and I am pretty jacked up. In my pelvic area, the right side is higher than the left (consistent with falling on my butt on one side) and the pelvis is tilted. They are trying to correct it using exercise and manipulations. I had no idea what 'manipulations' were - but now I do. Torture. At some point, I was laying on a table and they were yanking on my right leg. There were about 4 other manipulations that they did. That was 2 days ago and I still feel like I've been hit by a car. Fun times.

This is an injury that I would have recovered from on my own years ago. But now, I guess I'm not as resilient as I'd like to be.

Driving Luke to school

Me: ~yawns~

Luke: Mom, you sound like Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookie.

Can't stop

You should have seen the fabric lady's face (at Hobby Lobby) when I told her that I was pairing the blue/gray striped fabric with the black/white cheetah print.

Now I'm going to have to find some fabric to make one for Cami's window.

Cami's Room

Since we moved to a new place, Cameron decided that she wanted to be known as 'Cami'. So I filled out all her school paperwork with her new nickname. If I'm not thinking about it, I'll just revert to the default name. But sometimes I can remember to call her Cami.

I got her room painted in 1 day. It was made interesting by breaking news in Austin that I got to listen to all day. It was the day that the guy ran through UT campus with an AK-47, then shot himself inside the library. The whole campus was locked down for hours, and the news stations were live all day.

So here's the result. Now I'm starting to think about making some curtains.....

It fits

There have been 3 places where I just feel like "it fits."

• MSMS
• Starkville
• Austin

Life is good.

Done... for now

I finally finished Logan's bedskirt. Time to retire the sewing machine. :)

It's amazing now nice it looks when the bedskirt is made to reach all the way to the floor. It's the little things.....

More

• I wonder what Bernie does when he runs out to the flower bed in the corner of the backyard. He loves it out there. I can't imagine what's so interesting about it.
• Even though I have to wear my glasses to do this sewing work, it does not mean I'm getting old.
• I took some photos of Logan's room. I still need to finish her bedskirt and put her curtains back up - but you get the idea.

I painted their bathroom a slightly darker shade of Logan's room color

She loves this shelf thingy