The results are in

Well, in the continuing saga of back issues, they finally sent me to get an MRI of my lower spine.  Anyone that knows me knows that I do not sit still ever.. EVER.  So MRI's are a new found torture device for those of us that are hyperactive.  I will see about posting some of the images if I can figure out how but the long and the short of it is "Multiple stress fractures in the mid to upper lumbar region."  LOVELY.  So I am going on light duty for the next few weeks and off to see a spine specialist.  Not a happy camper but at least they know why I hurt and what is causing it. So that is the up side.

Injured, wounded, depressed. ahh just another day

Life has been rough lately, injured knee, pneumonia, and then a job related back injury that decided to flare back up in an outstandingly painful way a week and a half later.  So the knee is what they are calling I T band inflammation, or pure painful hell as I call it.  Now it has been getting under control through physical therapy and rest.  Well that was going peachy until I caught bronchitis which I then allowed to progress to pneumonia.  Yes I am a medic and yes I know better but .. well no excuses I just ignored it and it did not go away.  Now finally back to work and just starting to get back into working out when I fall out the back of the squad on a code and crush my lower mid back on the steel reinforced edge.  Ohh joy, searing pain up and down my back.  Off to the ER and several days off of work to allow it to mellow out.  X rays show nothing broken so yippie its muscular.  Back to work I go 9 days later or so.  Mid back still tight, I can feel a knot in it that just isnt going away, so what does Human do.. well I ignore it, it will get better since that has worked out so well for me in the past.  Nope Monday morning while watering the flowers before work.. stabbing pain, I cant breath, cant stand ohh wheezy its the big one.  yeah, full back spasm.  One shot of tordal later and I can sorta move.  That night back to the ER.  Now I have broken bones, had blown ligaments apart, broken ribs you name it.. nothing compared to a thorasic strain as they label it.  Couldn't breath, could not get off the floor when I had been icing it.  Was ready to call a squad to come and get me.  Finally, get angry enough to get up and walk to the jeep to hit the er.  Whoopie, Demerol, which I just discovered I am allergic to, but I am functioning.  Now its Friday and I am still taking pain meds, still cant turn and bend, still in pain.  I hate pain, I am allergic to it.  Tomorrow I go and see the doc again, and then to P.T. for my back.  Just want this over.