Sunday night Boo and I went to the ER because some back pain I had all day had elevated to a level that was threatening sleep. However, I’m pretty sure if I’d just stayed up until 3:30 when they let us leave the hospital I could have gone to sleep on my own. Monday I stayed in bed all day. Tuesday I went to class. More on that later, definitely some good stuff. Then today I woke up back to a sickening level of pain. So. Back to the Dr for me. Everyone keeps commenting on how “tense” my back is. Um. Yeah. It’s tense. That’s why I’m here. I don’t normally march to the Dr because my back is a little achey. I march to a massage. Anyway. DrC wanted some pictures because it sounded like spinal compression to him… Um no. I reject that. Then he asked about a knot somewhere else. Sent me to a specialist for that. Also sent me upstairs to PT and told me to start first thing in the morning. He said he should know by then if it was a spinal problem. He then prescribed another thing to relax my muscles. Which lead not to my back feeling better but to me sleeping for at least 5 hours. I woke up to eat and work on our taxes and now I’m going to sleep again. I have an appt at 7:30. Then class at 8:30. Eeeek.
OK. There’s your update. Thanks for the texts, calls and messages. It’s nothing serious. Just an inconvenience.
Trivialities 
Hey S,
As a 32 yr old female with compression and a very “tense” back- I feel you. (It runs in the family, ie. my mom, but also made worse by car accidents, the first of which was on the way to Agape/ Canterbury in the summer of ’92) Ironically, some practitioners prescribe *running* and yoga. The latter of which I am doing and it’s helping… I’m hoping it will help enough to avoid any major surgery.
J