Back at it, Again

Well, I'm still alive after my first week back to work again. By the end of each night was was soooore and couldn't get home to bed fast enough. To pile things on Wednesday and Thursday I sat in class for 6 hours. We will see how next week goes.

Yet Another Doctor

So I went and saw my 4th doctor yesterday. He's a Physical Medicine and Rehab doctor. He too said I don't need another surgery and suggested a trigger point injection. A trigger point injection is when they inject Cortisone into the muscle that is causing me pain. He said it would take about a week for me to feel the effects, I definitely hurt the rest of yesterday. He also suggested that I jump into work and see what happens, I start Saturday. He was a very cheery doc and I felt that he really care, a change from the first one I saw. So I will see how I have heal up Saturday.

Mom's first Facial

Today I took my mom for a morning of much needed pampering. A couple of years ago I bought her Spa Finder gift cards, needless to say up until this point she hadn't used them. I had also found on Portland Live's half price spot some $60.00 gift certificates for only $30.00 at a spa in Beaverton, Elixir Day spa. During the bad weather I had scheduled us an appointment for us at Elixir, but due to the 3 feet of snow we got and the "devastating" amount the Portland Metro area got we weren't able to go. So I rescheduled for today. It was a nice, warm feeling place. They put us in a room that was large enough that while one was getting a facial the other could get a foot massage. We both had fun and it was a great Mother-Daughter Day.

Back to the back surgeon

So I went to see my back surgeon yesterday to see what he thought of my newest injury and MRI. He didn't see any thing "broken," I won't need another surgery, and thinks I just strained my back bad. Unlike the other doctors I've seen he actually looked at the MRI while I was there as apposed to just reading the radiologist's report, who was pretty far in left field with my firth MRI. I'm felling mentally better, mostly because I won't have to go through another surgery. I have another appointment with another doctor on the 12th.