Today, Columbus day, bill and I are working on the garage. There are jillions of files, books, my mom's stuff etc. that need to get cleaned out so I can park the car in the garage. It is frustrating to try to help because it doesn't take very long until there is a stabbing hot pain along that nerve that is bothering me. I wonder if the injection did any good. I have another this Wednesday which is another 1/2 day of work for both Bill and myself. Actually, I feel a bit discouraged today.

Last Wednesday, I went to the dr. to have a pain injection. I am not sure what the injection does but I couldn't eat/drink all morning and they sort of put me out and took me a while to wake up. Then went to bed and couldn't drive.

Pain is still there especially when I do computer work. Will probably have another injection next week. Hopefully that will help

I have been thinking alot about the inconvenience of this. I missed my mom's dentist appt. Because of PT, I couldn't go to Spain, I had to work extra hard to make sure the trip happened. PT and MT took up at least 1 1/2 hrs an appointment. between this and work and being a grandma it became more difficult to see my mom.

Sometimes my rt shoulder blade feels like someone is sticking very sharp knives in it. Sometimes it is really hot; i don't like things touching my skin.

Today is August. Lots of things have happened since the last post. I went to physical therapy. It cleared up my lower back pain but when they had me lay on my stomach and lift weights, I couldn't do it because there were sharp pains between my shoulder blades. Every exercise they had me do like this made me feel like there were knives sticking in my back. I finally left physical therapy. I couldn't keep up with my taking care of mom and entering into the busiest season of the business.

Went to see Dr. Tracy because the pain continues and he sent me to massage. While it seemed to help some it didn't alleviate the sharp pains between my shoulder blades. He is now recommending an injection. Was supposed to have it in June but mom died and I couldn't go and then all the kids came. Couldn't reschedule until mid september.

I can feel my shoulders begin to permantly roll in to minimize the pain. I try to roll them back but it pinches my shoulderblades together and it hurts.

I can only stay at the computer at work for a couple of hours as that sore spot begins to burn and feel like knives stabbing in my back. Several times it has been so bad that I felt incapacitated. I am hoping the injections help. I wear a lidocaine patch (had to pay for it myself) to help. Don't like to wear it because it smells and now sometimes even not wearing it I have that smell in my nostrils.

Wasn't able to go to Spain in January (physical therapy). Lost my ticket money as well as Bill's
Additionally, didn't get to enjoy the fruits of the summer labor because I couldn't go to the reunion.

At night, I need to take aspirin because the sharp, burning pain is so bad. It is not so bad in the morning.