What a Difference a Day Makes!!

I am feeling so much better today than yesterday...

So evidently fractured ribs are quite common. The young man who took my x-rays had fractured his three weeks ago. He said he didn't feel the pain till three days later. My doctor is recuperating from fractured ribs and he said his pain was excruciating. My pain got progressively worse, probably because I wasn't paying enough attention to it. After all, that is what pain is for. Come the miracle of a few pills, taken every 4 others and voila, hardly any pain.

And another amazing thing, for the sciatica pain in the leg--you put an ice pack on the problem spot on your lower back and voila, pain in leg diminishes... Who would have thought?

So that takes care of the pain, but you can't live on pills and ice packs forever so now comes the tricky part, the healing. There is something new for sciatica, learned with astronauts. It is using a decompression chamber and lasers and time. It actually rebuilds cartilage and provides fluids and nutrients so you are really renewing and regenerating the spine rather than just providing a stop gap. Problem is insurance doesn't recognize it yet and only a few places have it...costly.

Ah, well, better just try the yoga...