BYC Café

[Sally PB]

DL, I hope no news is good news?

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

I ended up working remotely until nearly 8:30 last night to get my hours in and was bantering HTG while doing so. He is very distracting.

Any way, the shot was not something I'd recommend for a good time. But it absolutely helped! Not all the pain is gone but it has been improved by about 50% which puts me in a very good place. I am now going to continue focusing on strength training with a lot more gentle stretching now that the piriformis has been taken care of.

I can now tell that my S1 nerve is still in play and that I should start carefully stretching it as well so I will get the Teeter adjusted to me again and start doing a minute or 2 of decompression every morning and work my way up depending on how it goes. That poor nerve! I really made a mess of it.

And the nurse told me as I was walking out to give my body at least one full year to recover after spinal surgery. I liked that news too. I'm very optimistic about a full recovery.

 

[DobieLover]

Oh. And one kinda neat thing happened at the end of the injection. She must have slipped the needle through the piriformis a bit just before extracting it and hit the S1 because my leg gave a big jerk. She asked me if I was okay and I told her that it wasn't me. It was an involuntary movement. It startled me as much as her!

 

[sourland]

Good morning and thanks for the coffee.