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So this is what it’s like to get old

July 16, 2004

I met with a new physical therapist on Wednesday. Back in January I messed up my back by, get this, getting out of bed. I feel pretty stupid telling the doctors and therapists that everytime they ask, but that’s what happened. They don’t believe me, of course. They try to “remind” me what really happened.

“Are you sure you didn’t pull it while lifting something?”
“Maybe you were lifting your kids or something. Do you think that did it?”
“Did you fall?”
“Were you in a car accident?”

No, I got out of bed. They don’t like that answer, but they pretty much give up after I insist it’s the truth. The only possible explanation I have for it is that my back was injured in November, but I wasn’t feeling it until January. You see, in November of 2003, I donated a kidney to my dad. Applause. As much as I’d love to be the big hero here, it was really much less heroic than it sounds. But, back to my back. Obviously, with any abdominal surgery, there’s a lot of pain. And it’s not like a foot or an arm where you can immobilize it for a few days. If you get up, you use your abdomen. If you sit down, you use your abdomen. If you roll over… You get the picture. I put a lot of strain on my back when I was trying to avoid hurting my incisions back then. But the real back pain didn’t start until late January.

I’ve always had a stiff back, but this pain was totally different. In fact, it is probably the greatest pain I’ve ever experienced. Yes, more than my kidney removal and more than childbirth (which, by the way, was a piece of cake.) The pain shot down my right leg everytime I moved. I lived with it for a couple of weeks. Saw my doc after that. He told me ice it. Saw him two weeks later when it wasn’t fixed. That’s when he prescribed the physical therapy.

By the time I was able to get an appointment with the physical therapist, the pain had subsided. Every once in a while I would still get the pain, but it wasn’t the excruciating pain that it was originally. So, we worked on the residual pain and things began to improve. Back pain is a tricky thing. Sometimes one thing will be wrong and your body will compensate for it without causing you pain. But after many years of compensating, something else eventually goes out of whack, and that’s when you start to have the pain. So now we’re working backwards. The pain shooting down my right leg is fixed. Now she’s determined that there’s something going on with my left hip that is likely the cause of this whole mess. So she sent me to someone who is an expert. I guess I was seeing a hobbyist before.

The new physical therapist (George) is confident that he’s found the problem. It’s left-hip related… something about this part not turning enough to allow for some other thing to happen… or something. I don’t care, we’re going to fix it. Unfortunately, I’m expected to do these five stretches twice a day AND ice my back. Uh huh, okay. I have another appointment to see him in two hours, so you’ll have to excuse me while I go stretch.

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5 Responses to “So this is what it’s like to get old”

  1. Dan Says:
    July 16th, 2004 at 11:58 am

    What? What’s it like? The suspension is killing me! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Is it your birthday? If so, Happy Birthday… if not, Happy Late Birthday.

  2. Whimsy Chick Says:
    July 16th, 2004 at 2:21 pm

    Yeah, the suspense is killing me too, Dan. Apparently, there’s some bizzaro bug that’s keeping my post from showing up. I’ll spare you the details until the Blogger people can come up with a solution for me.

  3. Whimsy Chick Says:
    July 16th, 2004 at 2:23 pm

    Ahem, apparently the bug is with Safari, as publishing via IE seems to work.

  4. Oz Says:
    July 17th, 2004 at 8:42 am

    Sister, I hear you. I have a problem with my back, too. Doctors have no problem with “the source” of the injury, which was lifting a heavy box of books. Has anyone recommended a chiropractor to you? I went to my family doctor after the initial injury, and she just told me to take Aleve. Thanks. Very helpful. Now I have a degenerating disk because it’s been out of place for 10 years. A chiropractor can’t really help me now, but I think that if I had gone initially, the problem could have been solved.

  5. Fyse Says:
    July 19th, 2004 at 10:02 am

    I was half-way through writing a comment about my bad back (joining in the general exhange of stories) but it was getting so long I figured I’d put it in as an entry on my blog. Bad backs are a right pain, aren’t they? (I can’t believe I just said that. Sorry. The pun wasn’t planned, but I admit I didn’t do anything to stop it either…)

    http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~nrcf2/blog/index.shtml

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