Sunny Weather and MD appointment today

Yesterday I get a phone call from the L & I person assigned to me asking me what happened last week so I fill him in on the two bad PT appointments and the sneeze on Thursday Night causing me back pain and why I went to the Doctor on Friday, he then tells me oh that is why your off work again to which I said what do you mean off work I worked today for 6 hours. Apparently the Doctor forgot to give me a note for work saying she wanted me off work until I was re-evaluated on Tuesday... News to me I told him, I said she never mentioned to me not working and my husband was with me and he didn't hear her say anything about work and since she didn't give me a note for work I went to work on Monday.. So today (Tuesday) I'm off work waiting for my appointment, still taking steroids and I know they are the only thing making my back not hurt, since I wake up with minor back pain that goes away an hour after I take them.

Now I have to go to the Doctor today and hope she lets me go back to work, I'm beating she'll make me wait another week or two but I'm going to try to convince her to let me try 6 hour days starting next week, since I'm pretty sure she won't let me go back this week.


So looking at the next 10 days all I see is sunshine!! And I'm stuck not being able to work or do anything outside :( I know patience is a virtue but mine seem to be slowly getting thin since I've been off and can't do anything at all.

~Wild Irish Wanderer

Back update

Well the doctor put me back on steroids for a week and after two days on steroids I feel a lot better, I'm hoping that it won't bother me when I go back to work next week. Still on light duty though.

It's supposed to be very nice next week so I'm excited for the sun.

~Wild Irish Wanderer

Pain, Pain and more Pain

Well my back has decided it has had enough, and last night it rebelled big time, I hurt so bad this morning pretty much as bad as I did right after I hurt it the first time. All I can do is wait until the doctors office opens and call them. I guess I won't be going back to work anytime soon from the looks of it since I can barely even walk again.

~Wild Irish Wanderer

Bad last two PT appointments

The last two PT appointments I had have not gone well, the first one she manipulated my sciatic nerve and the second one she tried to make it better, all the while making my back way, way worse
and now I'm having almost the same pain I had at the beginning. I have a doctors appointment on Tuesday and will not be seeing the PT again until after I see the MD for sure. and I was finally starting to feel good and looking forward to going back to work and now this :-(

~Wild Irish Wanderer

Beautiful Weather and Feeling Great!

It's going to be a full week of sunshine here at the Wild Irish Wanderer home and boy are we excited! It won't be nice for the weekend.. so far.. but then again we'll see what happens in a week. I'm hoping to get some walking in but no hiking yet for sure.

I'm feeling great although I did have some back and butt cheek pain today when I woke up.. My PT lady did some massage and I'm sure that didn't help with the sciatica pain I had today. B U T I'm feeling great now and really am hoping to get back to work at least part day's soon.

Our fence should be getting started really soon and we are excited to get that done so I can put my garden stuff in, I do have everything ready to go and as soon as it's done I'm planting. I do have ground cover in case it decides to be really cold again so I can cover my plants if needed..

My mother in law wants to come visit again and I've been checking flights for her to come hopefully we can get some cheapo flights since I really don't want to pay $500 for her to fly here I'd rather spend the extra money when she is here..

Have a Great Day!!!

~Wild Irish Wanderer

What we've been up too

I've been doing PT twice a week and feel a lot better not 100% but darn close. I'm going to see the doctor on the 30th and I'm hoping she will release me to work 6 hours a day like she said she would.

We went to Whole Foods for the first time the other day and boy are we impressed. We loved there Bacon Blue Cheese Burgers and plan to go get them again. But and it's a big but they are over an hour away :-(

I've been working out more and trying to get some walking in when the weather cooperates, it's supposed to be very nice next week and I'm looking forward to the sunshine..

~Wild Irish Wanderer

So Much Better

I had PT on Monday and Wednesday and I feel so much better! My back does ache some every day and a tad more about 3 hours after PT but even walking it feels good. I've done PT twice and walked twice this week. I am excited about feeling better and hoping I'll soon be able to go back to work regular although the MD did tell me I'd have to do half days (6 hours) for awhile to get back into working and not hurting myself again. Yea!!! Means soon I'll be able to hike but since spring is here I'm guessing no more snowshoeing this year.. Boo...

I'm working this evening for 4 hours and then I'm off until next week. I'll need to do another evening shift for 4-6 hours next week do finish up some night shift paperwork for one of my bosses but I think I'll be done with it after next week until next month if I'm still on light duty then.

The weather has been hit and miss here lately yesterday it poured for about 2 hours then was sunny/cloudy the rest of the day which was nice since DS had a field trip out of town. Today it's just cloudy/sunny perfect day for a hike IF I could go hiking..

Instead I decided to make an office to do list and try to get some of it done this weekend. I have an old printer I need to see if my mom wants and some papers that need burned/shredded.

We have someone coming over Friday to give us an estimate on replacing some of our fence and putting a fence across the yard for my garden..

I told DH I want to go to the container store this weekend and he wants to get some aquarium stuff so I'm sure a trip is in order on Saturday..

~Wild Irish Wanderer

Random Thoughts

Friday I started PT and boy did my back ache 3 hours after I finished and almost all of the next day.

I am doing PT Mondays and Wednesdays after I get off work and have appointments scheduled through the end of the month. I do see the doctor tomorrow so we'll see what she says.

Today I did a run/walk for a short period of time and drug, Yes Drug my DH silly dog with me and I promise I won't be doing that again since now my left shoulder blade is killing me. That crazy collie usually loves to run with me but I guess she's so overweight now that even running is impossible for her. I loved being outside at 6am although it was drizzling alittle it wasn't to bad and I had a great time and although I have shoulder blade pain I don't have any increased back pain.

Both DH and I work albeit me only 4-6 hours Monday through Thursday next week then we both have time off again and I can't wait hopefully the weather will at least slightly cooperate.

On the money note our Taxes are complete and we are getting some money back.. Thank you CPA I love my CPA she is wonderful and very good. Well worth the money we pay her to do our taxes.
We'll be putting that in savings or using it for our new fence we are going to have put up. I just need to return the calls for the estimates and have them done as soon as possible as my plants are beginning to get big. I'll be doing some re potting this next week in the afternoons since I'll be off and plan on getting the pots and soil today.

~Wild Irish Wanderer

Been very busy doing nothing

Well this week was spring break and we had vacation planned unfortunately I was not able to drive long distances per the doctors orders so we only took a 3 hour drive, stayed over night did some stuff and drove back home the next day and we had a blast! The weather was perfect although it's now raining again as usual but we can't complain at all about last week.

I start Physical Therapy tomorrow for my back and I'm nervous and excited at the same time. I sure hope I don't have alot of pain on Saturday I want to work 6 hours.

I'm only having twinges of pain now and then depending on what I do, but since I haven't done my regular job for awhile I'm sure the first few times I work I'll be hurting. I don't see the doctor again until I've had physical therapy for 2 weeks but I need to get a note from her for work saying when I see her again, but she has been on vacation since last week so I might try to call tomorrow while I'm at work and see if she is back yet.

We did major house cleaning today, well I supervised mostly and over spring break we got both of our raised beds ready to go, now I just need a fence put up so my dogs and chickens don't have a field day in my garden beds. All of my seeds have germinated and I need to re pot most of them, I'll be trying to do that this Sunday since I plan to work 6 hours Friday and Saturday. I'll stop by and get garden soil after work on one of those days so Sunday I'm ready to go..

~Wild Irish Wanderer