Back problems

Let's see. It's been a while since I wrote, isn't it? No good reason execpt possibly the fact that there's been quite a lot going on and also I just realized yesterday that SAD has hit me. I promptly went and found our light therapy lamp which is now in our bathroom - where I seem to spend quite a lot of time nowadays (the amount of laundry we come up with is spectacular). I feel muuuuch better today, too! I know its the placebo thing at this point but who cares, I feel better !! :)

This entry is apparently going to be about my health this time. I went to see a doctor today about my back. Ever since we had the synod meeting in late September I've had problems with it. As a result of the fact that we sat hours on end at the synod it got sore and then I really threw it badly on the following Sunday. It took a week to get it feeling better but it hasn't been without pain for more than a couple of days at a time. The pain is mostly not debilitating but I'm needed sitting on the floor and that's a quite uncomfortable.

So, to the doctor I went and they took x-rays of it. I have a mild case of scoliosis which I seem to recall I've been told before and it didn't then lead to anything else like physiotherapy. This time I'm 10 years older - at least - and my back is clearly a problem so I hope the ball is now rolling and I'll get help. 

One suggestion is that, since I'm top heavy ie. let's just say how it is, I have big boobs, I need reduction surgery. I actually hope I can get that but it does scare me. On the other hand, all operations would. The thing is that reduction surgery might also help with GERD since my girls press on my chest and the area where I already have a hernia.

I still need to see a physiotherapist as well to get her assesment on my back and that'll be December 16th because apparently she is very busy. I'm not quite sure if anything else happens before that. My doctor seemed to think that I would be a candidate for the reduction regardless but we'll see.

I also went to get my eyes checked because it's getting a wee bit difficult to read small print with my glasses on. Thankfully - since multifocals are horribly expensive - I don't yet have anything that glasses should correct and I'll just keep cutting my daughters nails with my glasses on top of my head :).

Other than the back issue all's well especially now that I realized that I was about to get SAD :). I haven't had problems with it since I got pregnant but this is the first winter without hormonal support and without going out every single day for at least an hour's walk. So, no wonder SAD found me again, unfortunately, but like with most things that affect me I have a mild case of SAD rather than really having a hard time with it. It's enough that it gets me weepy with no good reason and everything sweet vanishes into my mouth and reappears on my tummy.

I have to say as I write this that I feel very middle aged with my chainging eyesight and sore back. I am middle aged but aaaarrrgh! At the end of the day, though, everything is well and little girl's last course of antibiotics ended Saturday evening and she's been very chipper and active. Thank goodness for kindergartens! :) Isn't it great that's how it now is? I think so :).