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Off-Topic / Re: Last Word
« on: May 25, 2022, 09:13:48 PM »
All the best to you Bob. I'm sure the surgery will be great, and you'll be back to your old self in a couple of months.
I was a bit luckier; I think. I was bucking a maple I downed and afterward I started getting lightning bolts down my left leg. I had something similar years before sciatica, which turned out to be caused by sitting on a fat wallet. That was 30-35 years ago and to this day I never sit on my wallet. Anyway, this recent bout went on for about 6 months. It was so bad I could not sit down on either cheek. I had to lay down on my stomach to avoid agony. I saw 4 specialists and they just offered my meds. Then in the summer I was remodeling my son's bathroom in 90 something, heat. My bladder was telling me to pee but nothing was coming out. The first doc I called offered an appointment 2 weeks out. I told her, maam if I have to wait 2 weeks I'll be dead and you'll have a missed appointment. My wife called a specialist and had me in in an hour, After a bunch of tests, he diagnosed a bladder infection, but didn't know the cause. He set me up for a bunch of exploratory procedures, front and rear. Anyway, he gave me antibiotics for a urinary tract infection which worked like a charm. I was peeing that night.
The crux of the story, the back and leg pain I had endured for 6 months, was gone the next day. Gone, no pain sitting, lying down, none that day and none since. None of the back docs could find anything, because it was my bladder pressuring a nerve near my spine. Ultimately, they found a non cancerous growth in my bladder which caused a blockage and the infection. I don't know how but he lanced it and removed it. And yes I was out cold for the duration of the inspection.
I was a bit luckier; I think. I was bucking a maple I downed and afterward I started getting lightning bolts down my left leg. I had something similar years before sciatica, which turned out to be caused by sitting on a fat wallet. That was 30-35 years ago and to this day I never sit on my wallet. Anyway, this recent bout went on for about 6 months. It was so bad I could not sit down on either cheek. I had to lay down on my stomach to avoid agony. I saw 4 specialists and they just offered my meds. Then in the summer I was remodeling my son's bathroom in 90 something, heat. My bladder was telling me to pee but nothing was coming out. The first doc I called offered an appointment 2 weeks out. I told her, maam if I have to wait 2 weeks I'll be dead and you'll have a missed appointment. My wife called a specialist and had me in in an hour, After a bunch of tests, he diagnosed a bladder infection, but didn't know the cause. He set me up for a bunch of exploratory procedures, front and rear. Anyway, he gave me antibiotics for a urinary tract infection which worked like a charm. I was peeing that night.
The crux of the story, the back and leg pain I had endured for 6 months, was gone the next day. Gone, no pain sitting, lying down, none that day and none since. None of the back docs could find anything, because it was my bladder pressuring a nerve near my spine. Ultimately, they found a non cancerous growth in my bladder which caused a blockage and the infection. I don't know how but he lanced it and removed it. And yes I was out cold for the duration of the inspection.