Loving each day!

The steroid shots in the facet joints didn’t help a bit.  Now what?  I reviewed the next option—nerve ablation—in the previous post.  If that is not successful, and perhaps in lieu of nerve ablation, we may try a surgically inserted pump which dispenses medication internally on a schedule. Meanwhile, I am loving each day.  Today has [...]

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Better than a “forum” . . .

I believe I’ve made my last foray into the Back Pain Forum which I’ve visited online in recent months.  Initially, this forum was a valuable information resource when I needed it—before and after spinal fusion surgery.  It was good to connect with others who had gone that route.  After all, one doesn’t attend a tea party or coffee [...]

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That Fine Line

“A little learning is a dangerous thing;  Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian* spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.” Alexander Pope 1688-1744 *In Greek Mythology the Pierian Spring of Macedonia was sacred to the muses.  Throughout Western history the term “Pierian Spring” has been used as a metaphor [...]

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Changes in the changes . . .

After weeks of deliberation on my part, I had decided to eliminate Riches in Glory because of all my sites, this is the one with very few readers—whereas the other four webpages are frequently visited.   I figured the other sites would be a place to say whatever I need to say.   I went through the hoops to delete [...]

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Praise God for the “normal” things . . .

. . . waking in the morning to the sound of much needed rain, sharing a breakfast at our local “good old boy” restaurant, stopping at the library and leaving with 2 heavy sacks of books, celebrating the progression of summertime in our gardens, sitting in ”our row” in church with 10 great grandchildren—ages 6 and under, gently stepping back in [...]

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Entropy . . . the potential pitfall of illness and pain

“Let us not become weary of doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”  Galatians 6:9 (NIV) The term entropy was coined in 1865 by Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius, 1822-1888, a German physicist and mathmatician who is considered to be one of the central founders of the [...]

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Measuring out my life . . .

  For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T. S. Eliot Like the famous Prufrock, I’m measuring out my life—only not in coffee spoons, but rather in those [...]

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What the pain-free folks just don’t get . . .

It’s a funny thing, living with pain.  We live with it and life is ever more precious and enjoyable because of it.  Perhaps this sounds masochistic—but it’s not.  The human spirit loves a challenge, and continual challenge followed by the joy of occasional overcoming is heady business! The hearty, pain-free world can’t understand that living with [...]

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One Minute at a Time . . .

My collection of clocks, each one being correct twice every twenty-four hours, reminds me of the unpredictability of time.  I used to think that “One Day at a Time” was a good adage.  Now I say, “One Minute at a Time.”  With my husband’s severe health issues, life often changes momentarily.  Unscheduled trips to the hospital are [...]

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“Art” Therapy

Last evening I had a BDN.  That’s “Bad Disc Night”—not “disc” as in computers, boom boxes, or DVD players, but discs in the lumbar region of my body. Joe and I like to go to bed early with our books and George Winston.  George is not actually present in person in our home, but we have [...]

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