last night that I was in so much pain I couldn’t concentrate enough to walk. This past weekend my husband and I took the dogs to the dog park. I didn’t handle any of them, I just sat in the car and stood in the park for 20 minutes and sat in the car and came home and sat in my IKEA chair. It was too much, though, combined with standing in the yard for 15 minutes listening to him explain how he was going to tear out some plants and replace them with others and put up fencing to keep the dogs away from them later in the day. The pain is back. I saw my doctor again yesterday and we decided he’s going to perform nerve blocks (more details) on the affected joints next Wednesday. I don’t recall if I mentioned I’m getting a cervical neurotomy (or three) this Friday at 5pm. If the nerve blocks go well, I’ll get lumbar neurotomies on those facet joints as well, probably 3 weeks later. It’s a lot of outpatient injections/minor surgery. And a lot of pain. AND I keep saying stupid things because I’m taking too much of this migraine preventative Topamax/Dopamax CRAP, but it makes me not have migraines every day, except I’ve had migraines the past 2 days. I keep mixing up words, saying the wrong words for things, and getting confused about things and it’s so frustrating. I know it’s the drugs. As soon as I get the cervical neurotomy I should be able to decrease my dosage. I just thought I would be able to go back to work yesterday, and my doctor gave me a piece of paper that said estimated return to work: October 1. When I left work mid-July, my other doctor told me to take 2 weeks off…
I have been doing some knitting… nothing I can share, unfortunately. I do have some stuff I did a while back that I didn’t share that I should share though, so I’ll try to get to that soon! And I bought Wendy Bernard’s book Custom Knits, which I’d like to review in an upcoming post, so stay tuned!