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And so it goes.
May. 2nd, 2005 01:59 pmFollowup with the back doc today. PT didn't work, symptoms worsening (widening area of effect). He wants to do an epidural steroid injection next week. Followup with him three weeks after that. Meanwhile, deal. sigh. The steroid injection won't solve the problem, just ameliorate some of the symptoms. Maybe.
Physical therapy worked out pretty much like I thought it would. Didn't make things better, didn't make them worse. The therapist did some work on my back, to try to loosen things up to relieve some of the pressure on the spine, but it didn't have any noticeable effect. He gave me some new exercises to do (mostly variants on stuff I've been doing for the last 20 years), and essentially said "you don't really need me" (something about doing 30 reverse incline pushups with my feet up on a ball, despite a bad shoulder and a bad back). So we cancelled the last two weeks of PT.
It was snowing a couple of minutes ago, and now the sun is out. Good. Maybe the snow will melt.
Physical therapy worked out pretty much like I thought it would. Didn't make things better, didn't make them worse. The therapist did some work on my back, to try to loosen things up to relieve some of the pressure on the spine, but it didn't have any noticeable effect. He gave me some new exercises to do (mostly variants on stuff I've been doing for the last 20 years), and essentially said "you don't really need me" (something about doing 30 reverse incline pushups with my feet up on a ball, despite a bad shoulder and a bad back). So we cancelled the last two weeks of PT.
It was snowing a couple of minutes ago, and now the sun is out. Good. Maybe the snow will melt.
