A little background information is needed here in order for you to understand what's going on with me. About six years ago I got into a wicked car accident. No one was injured but me and there were was only one other vehicle involved that I bounced off of in my car and dented their door, that was it. I ended up fishtailing badly on a snow covered freeway because the guy who cut in front of me last minute decided to also hard brake right away. I totaled my car by bouncing off two sets of k-rails twice and doing two 360's before dinging the door of a dual axle pick up truck and ending up in the middle of the freeway in a broke ass car. My car was totaled and unfortunately, so was my body.
The end result of this accident for me is a permanent twist to my lower lumbar spine that will not go away and a sideways s-curve to the rest of my spine that I see a chiropractor for just so it doesn't get any worse. I'm in constant pain because of these two things. CONSTANT pain that can and does spread down to both my legs causing numbness, tingling and burning pain. There is a surgery available to correct the twist in my lumbar spine but the risk of losing all use of my right leg is 80%. I don't think that's a viable option being a mother and wanting to live a relatively active life.
All of that brings me to my update, my complaint, my little whiny paragraph or two. Every time I see my chiropractor it hurts like hell for the next couple of days. I mean more than usual, which is a lot. I use ice, per my chiropractors advice and then I'm supposed to rest for the remainder of the day to give my back and the surrounding muscles some time to recover from the adjustment.
This is where the problem comes in. I get adjusted around 2 or 3 pm and then get home and there is no time for me to rest. Ever. Someone always needs or wants something done. For instance, yesterday I got adjusted and then got home around 6 pm after running a couple more errands, no big deal except I wasn't given the option to rest or ice down my back for more than 1 hour before someone needed something.
My mother wanted help going through a tote of paperwork, dinner needed to be made, Ardanata needed to be fed and had a bad diaper rash that needed tending to, my sister wanted chocolate chip cookies that I had promised her I'd make.
All of this requires a lot of movement on my part. A lot of time spent standing on my feet in the kitchen. My back is screaming today because of it. I can barely handle sitting or lying down let alone standing and walking. And I don't even want to think about bending over.
The pain is a constant aching pinching feeling in my low back on the right and then it will spread into a burning feeling down my legs. That hasn't happened yet but I feel like it's going to since it's already spread to my right ass cheek and is making that ache something fierce. Not a comfortable feeling that.
So there it is. My whine/complaint about how I always hurt. It sucks, it really does. I try to ignore it as best I can but it's hard to do. I take my meds and do my exercises and stretching but they only do so much before it's back to the constant pinching and burning pain. I know everything happens for a reason and you're given the life you're given because you can handle it and I know I'm a survivor and I know I'll make it through this but there are some days where it doesn't feel that way.
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