From bad to worse... and then a bit better
This weekend I've been overwhelmed by two things: The amount of pain the human body can bear and the support/encouragement I've received from friends and virtual strangers. Both have been in steady supply. Thanks everyone.
Saturday morning the pain in my back caused my body to shut down. I have never in my life been as scared as I was when I realized that I was passing out. For a brief moment I thought I was dying.
That was the turning point.
I stopped worrying about the marathon and just wished for some relief from the pain. I had NO IDEA back pain could be like that.
Four days later I'm still moping around my house and spending most of my day horizontal, but I'm feeling much better. Tomorrow I've got appointments to see my doctor and get some acupuncture. I'm confident that time and treatment will tell whether or not this marathon is still a possibility.
Enough sitting for now... thanks again for the support everyone!
posted by Julie @ 4:46 PM
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2 Comments:
So glad to hear that the "bit better" is beginning! Hope your medical advice and treatments bring comfort soon AND that you'll take it easy while you are recouperating. Sounds like one of those times when you have to slow down to speed up!
More cheers and more(gentle) hugs!
Fran
very good blogger site!.
Do you know BBC News (14/09/2006) Acupuncture for low back pain is cost-effective and works, according to medical researchers. Two studies on bmj.com suggest a short course of acupuncture would benefit patients and healthcare providersThe cost is well below the threshold used by officials to decide whether the NHS can afford to fund a set treatment, they said. Up to 80% of UK residents experience back pain at some point in their lives, costing the NHS £480m a year.—(BBC News 14/09/2006)
And, What do you think about it? Something as follow:
Chinese acupuncture practitioner had almost been accused for website’s ads in Bristol
Dr Zhentong Han is a Chinese registered acupuncturist with twenty years of clinical experience. He is very popular among the patients in the area with outstanding technique. The appointments for him in the clinic in Bradford were always full, however, at Bristol, another place where he set up his business; there were troubles from the competitions in the same field.
It started at the acupunctural website of Dr Han(http://www.backachetherapy.co.uk), which occupied the NO.1 place in a international websites about acupuncture (http://www.passion-4.net/tables/Acupuncture.html). Because of the large number of patients attracted by this website which introduced traditional Chinese acupuncture for backache therapy,and top position in yahoo and google. it caught great attention of other businesses in the same field in a very short time. Some practitioner even registered company names using key words about acupuncture , and notified Dr Han and other practitioners to stop using the some key words for advertising the website. Or else they would probably be charged by the law.
Dr Han claimed that he regretted deeply for the matter, but he didn’t want to get involved in this legal dispute, for the purpose of having a website is not to score high on the network, but to have more patients understand the most veracious Chinese traditional acupunctural techniques through his website, so to help more patients get rid of the pain.
Bristol Chinese Pain relief Acupuncture
www.backachetherapy.co.uk
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