What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

With that much food on the menu, my plans are to hang out with you!

 

I’ll have them on speed dial!

 

I've been dealing with back problems for nearly 7 or 8 years. I cant remember a day when I wasnt in pain. Ive gone through a few doctors, now on my 3rd. I would bring up my concerns with my back and none of the 2 previous doctors would even attempt to find out what was wrong.

My new doctor has taken care of me, talked to the right people and has gotten me in to see the right people. A few weeks ago I had 2 MRI's and learned that my spinal cord was being smashed in my upper T spine. That was it. No other explanation until yesterday. My spinal cord is in fact being smashed in my upper T spine. I also have a issue in my lower L4-L5 area that involves my spinal cord and my nerves.

Within the last 6 to 8 months, i have began to experience the loss of feeling on my lower left side. This is related to the L4-L5 area in my back. I don't have symptoms yet of the issue in my upper T spine. Surgery became questioned, we knew it was sketchy. Ive heard horror story one after the other, ive heard success story one after the other.

This morning, I met with a Neuro surgeon. He confirmed the problem in my lower and upper back. Its also been confirmed that I have a bunch of arthritis going on in my spine. Surgeon says surgery shouldn't be discussed at this time. The procedure I guess is far to risky. He says the only reason to think about surgery is if I was currently having issues with losing the use of my lower extramedies. This isn't an issue so for now we are simply focusing on pain management.

Im simply waiting to hear back from my insurance on the approval of getting my first injection in my lower back. Ill have problems the rest of my life, hard to think about but I have to find a way to ease the pain

 

GoodLuck !!!!!..............may the force be with you.

 

Whatever you do, do NOT google "women of walmart". You're welcome.

 

Great that you have found a couple of Drs that care about you and that you can trust. You have to to it their way, though, do PT until it doesn't work, get injections until those don't work, then they will talk about surgery. In the meantime, there's a lot you can do to take care of your back. It's a tough nut if you're a firewood hoarder, for sure!

 

ive already done tried PT, wont be doing that again. Next step is the injections.

 

Repair man came to fix washing machine. Done.

Tractor dealer called and said Mahindra rep. here today at 1, not tomorrow. Got this call at 11:30 ish and didn’t see message until 12:30. But made it there to talk to him. Now I wait, again with no tractor.

Mahindra 3550 4X4 HST

Time for a looooong walk outside to clear my head. And then have a cold beer this evening and relax and visit with wife’s family who are coming in tonight. It will be good to see them.

 

I think I have the same heater.Burns diesel or kerosene,and kerosene is rare out here.Is on loan at friends house,but hasn't been run more than 25-30 times,very little fumes compared to the really old one I had.

 

Glad you had fun cleaning your orafice

 

I remember I had to change the air setting,but I am at 65oo ft.

 

Yeah, you don't know how many times I've changed the wording in my posts......

 

Shot more groceries tonight. Got 2 deer to butcher now...dad shot one last night.

 

Busy evening. My son's karate dojo put up 500 turkey dinners tonight. The owner has been doing this several years now. We had close to 80 folks helping out packing and moving boxes to different areas. 2 hours start to finish. These all get delivered tomorrow by volunteers. A nice way to start the holiday season.