Here's a cut and paste. The procedure was yesterday.
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I got my Plasma Spinal Decompression performed at 7:00 in the morning after going to sleep at 3:30 AM. So I woke up at 5:45 AM. Fortunately, I slept after I got back.
In a nutshell, I was injected with a needle and had some of the material in my spine blasted away with radio waves. The pressure in my spine goes down and the leakage from the pressure stops as well. In case anyone was wondering, I really wasn't in a nutshell when this happened. There were clamshell lights overhead though.
I'm sore from the procedure but my back feels different. Like there's more mobility. Before I felt like I walked like a 1970's action figure. Now I just seem a bit more loose but sore.
So here's to hoping that everything is fine. This procedure is sort of a last chance option for me. Anything more is just too invasive and my pain is just hovering out of the "We think you should live with it" range. I have a 4.5 level or so and they want to get me down to a 3. I may get a similar procedure done on my neck. It all depends on what the doctor thinks and if fixing the back will fix the pain in the neck.
The significant other's leaving on his vacation soon (a vacation that I insisted he take). Figured I should say something since I'm segueing from me in the hospital to him leaving. It's just the best time for him to go that still manages to fit well with my medical issues / work / doctor's appointments and such. I'm more than capable of doing stuff I need to do at home on my own so there's no reason for him not to go. I gave him the thumbs up again today and after taking care of me for over a year while sick (not to say he hasn't before), he deserves this.
The worst part will be dealing with two Cairn Terriers. Junie likes to woof and bark at everything and Sophie likes to pee. This should be fun. Sophie really does nothing wrong. If she has to pee, the options are few. She won't pee out on the patio with the gravel since it smells like Junie. She has to go outside. Junie is just nervous and therefore loud when people are nearby. We now have people living upstairs so there's noise as they Frankenstein Walk up and down.
Getting ready for
National Novel Writing Month. I've been reading:
20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them,
45 Master Characters,
Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel, and finally
No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days.
For fun, I'm reading:
Darkly Dreaming Dexter,
Rollback, and
The Killing Dance (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, Book 6).
There's also a collection of Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries waiting for me if I get bored.
We're still waiting on hearing about the last house on our list. If we don't hear anything we'll just keep looking. It would be nice to be done with this.
Guess that's it!
