Down 50 Pounds

It's been a while since my last post.. a long while.
The reason for the long delay has been my recent mega visits to local and regional hospitals.
For some reason, unknown to doctors, I have lost over 50 pounds. I have dieted, excersised, or anything. Mind you, many people would just love to loose 50 pounds, and I can't deny that I could have easily lost about 20 pounds worth of Italian Beef sandwiches and Large Fries. Unfortunately, my weight loss wasn't the good kind.

Along with the weightloss came a back ache. At first it was minor, similiar to bad posture or from riding the harley all day. Then it got worse, a lot worse. In fact, it got so bad that I ended up in the emergancy room.

The pain continued 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It didn't matter what position I was in or what I was doing. It always hurt... Bad.

Eventually, the pain was crippling. The doctors did their expensive tests, CT scans, X-Rays, all with no result. Months went by and who knows how many thousands of dollars.

Finally, as a last attempt to at least relieve my pain, I was sent to a pain specialist. He was very concerned about my weightloss, no doubt because I resembled an anorexic etheopian. The good news was he had a treatment that "might help, might not, might only work for a week, might work for a month, might fix it". Not exactly promissing words from a specialist, however at this point I was more than ready to try anything.

So, I laid on the operating table under an x-ray machine. The doctor took out these needles that had to be 8 inches long and proceeded to stick them into my spine. Wow! That was just a little intense. I could actually watch that long dagger penetrating my skin and going into my spine by viewing the X-Ray monitor.

Well, today I feel much better. The procedure took longer than they said it would, however eventually it did numb the pain. Heck, I have even gained 3 pounds, bringing my weight up to a whopping 163 pounds. I'm huge!