Bikes, backs, and my little space girl...
Wud up? I fianlly gave up on the traditional medicine and went back to chiropractic. Now the new crew is more of a classic Davenport Iowa style team, which is ok just not 'sports' focused. At this point, that's ok for me since my skillz are starting to need a prefix reading 'rec'.I went last Friday for my x-rays and scans, they use this heat scan to determine blood flow on each side of your spine and compare against what has been determined to be 'normal'. The good thing is it is a very simple way (if it's reproducible) to quickly see change/improvement over time. So yesterday I got to see my life size x-ray and see all the ugliness up close and personal.... it wasn't pretty.
My the disk between L4/L5 (and my 75% formed L6, yes I'm special) are fugg'd up. The bulging side was clear as fricken day on the side view, but from the front showed the aftermath of a tuesday nighter crash back in 2003 that had 100% impact of my *mass* on my left hip. A tilt of ~8 degrees and a visibly lower pelvis. If this was not enough, my spine has a mild scoliosis and some degeneration in my neck. Needless to say, the injections and PT aren't going to help me... and neither is my old chiro (whom will remain nameless and doesn't have a website). It's not pretty and I was ready to beg for even an old style adjustment.
So what happened you ask? I've had 2 adjustments and actually have more relief than any of the other treatments over the past 9 months. It really pains me to say that, but while I'm no where close to back to normal, I'm walking on the path towards it. That actually feels pretty good after all the PT, MRI's,and steroid injections.... and they were just about to start the EPO treatement...
In celebration I've signed up for Coldsprings this weekend and will hope for a iDiot 13th place...
Dang, the space girl pic is on my desktop at work... I'll upload tomorrow.
Sammy Rivers to the Barbie Space Shuttle...
posted by the jesus @ 9:26 PM
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