PAIN!

I might not be around too often for a few days.....

I have been preparing to take a Bible study class at church this morning, and I was sitting up in bed first thing having a last look over things. When I went to get up from bed I couldn't stand up properly! It was agony when I finally managed to hobble to the ensuite, still unable to stand straight. I couldn't get back to the bedroom without Peter's help. Peter rubbed some pain cream into my back and could feel a large bulge on the spine just above the coccyx. It was too painful for him to massage it or even rub the cream in deeply.

I can sit in a lounge chair for a short while - no more than an hour, then I have to hobble back to bed and lie down for several hours. It is painful to turn over in bed and walking is agony.

Peter wanted to take me to the hospital, but frankly I wouldn't have been able to get up into our 4WD and besides, Nathan was singing a special item in the morning service today. I feel a little bit better tonight than I did this morning but I don't know whether it is the cumulative effect of the strong pain medication I am taking or it is really getting better.

Anyway, there won't be a lot of mini-ing going on until things are improved. I will see whether I can at least do something productive with the time I am up though, I can never sit and just do nothing - I am a bit hyperactive or obsessive that way!

I've had a bulging disc before and I doubt that it is the same thing again, I am sure that it is just that I am just paying the price for sitting on a chair that is the wrong height. I can never sit on a dining chair for long, and I have been using a folding chair the same height. Probably not a good idea. Hopefully by Monday it will be much better - if not I'll have an emergency treatment for it.