I went to a baby shower on Saturday and gifted this Bunny Blanket Buddy, a free Lion Brand pattern
Here’s a close up of its face
I got the idea from Abigail, who made a bunch of these a little while back. I was feeling quite a bit better at the end of last week, so I thought driving (riding actually, R was nice enough to drive me and sit at Starbucks until I called him to pick me up in case I was in too much pain to drive myself home, which I think I was) 45 minutes to Livermore and back for the shower and sitting in a regular chair (even with my ergonomic back rest from Relax the Back) for an hour and a half (that’s all I lasted, fortunately other people left at the same time and the main festivities were over) would be a good test to see if I was ready to return to work after my follow-up visit to the spine specialist today. Unfortunately, I’ve been in MUCH more pain (~8/10) since then.
SO, my doctor agreed to stay late tomorrow and perform a lumbar neurotomy so I don’t have to wait another week in tons of pain (he only does surgical procedures once a week). I’m supposed to be there at 1:50pm, so the procedure is probably scheduled for 2:50pm. Wish me luck!! He told me that he doesn’t numb before the procedure because he puts the probe in the right location under x-ray and then if he took it out to numb then put it back in it wouldn’t be as accurate (he said he might be off my 1mm or so) and he might not get as good of a result, so he said it’s going to be really painful for about 60 seconds and then he’s going to take the probe out and put the anesthesia in. And he’s doing this to 3 joints, I think, so I’m going to have to endure 3 minutes of horrible nerve burning pain without anesthesia??? If my pain doctor was doing this I would be at the hospital instead of the surgicenter and I would have an anesthesiologist helping out instead of a nurse and I could get general anesthesia and not feel any pain, like I did during my cervical neurotomy. I remember it, for a few minutes I was pain free, it was the best feeling in the world. Too bad it didn’t last.