One Down, Fifteen to Go

I had my first physical therapy session Friday night, and have another one tonight. For the time being, I’ve been given stretching exercises to do to help loosen up things that haven’t healed as well as they might. The guy I’m seeing said that I have a classic case of post-laminectomy syndrome (laminectomy is one of the things I had done when I had back surgery), but that they could help me a lot, it would just take some hard work. Not a problem, I just need a plan of action. I looked it up when I got home and “post-laminectomy syndrome” is another one of those catch-all terms that’s used to describe people who have persistent/recurring pain after certain kinds of back surgery. It’s also called “failed back syndrome”.

I saw that, and I have to admit, my inner nerd got all kinds of pissed off. I thought to myself “I don’t fail things. Screw that. I’m fixing it.”

So that’s my plan of action – whether or not I have to drag my body kicking and screaming back to full health and mobility, that’s where it’s going. Granted, sometimes my body has a way of being spectacularly uncooperative (as evidenced by…well, by any number of things), but I’ve managed to get over that in the past – I have chondromalacia and patellofemoral pain syndrome (fancy words that mean “crap knees”) and I barely notice it in regular life, except for when regular life requires sitting for long periods of them, then I’m a little stiff-legged until I can shake it off. It hurts, and there are things I avoid doing (but I never cared much for step aerobics anyway), so I don’t feel like it has significantly slowed me down.

So, you see, this is where my obstinacy pays off. This is not to say that I will never again wallow – I’m quite sure that I will, at least once in a while. But this is a good start for me. Plus, my PT guy seems to be fairly confident that they can help me.

Work continues to be good, if busy. (Although, I say that like it’s a bad thing – it’s really not. I like to be busy at work, it beats the heck out of being bored.) I think we have some fun things coming up for the fall, and we already had the very fun, and very wonderful wedding Brunette a few weeks ago. Time is truly flying by, it’s crazy how fast it goes.

(Sadly, my camera decided to crap out on me, so we have no actual photos of our own, but many others captured the event.)

And with that…I’ll be off.