Taking The Good With The Inconvenient
Full disclosure…I’m writing this kind of doped up (so the content may get illogical).
Two weeks ago, I threw my back out emptying a tiny bathroom trashcan. I tried to gut it out, but the next morning, when I could scarcely walk more than five steps without holding onto the wall and then dropping to my knees in pain, Goodwife took me to the ER. An Xray didn’t show much but some suspicious compression low in my back, and then sent me away with a shot of morphine and another of tramadol, along with a referral to a spine specialist.
I use the VA for medical, so everything has to go through their system. Yesterday, I finally got an MRI, …