Anyone who ever looks at this, if there is in fact such a person, is probably also friends with me on Facebook. In that case, you know that my back problems have been ongoing since August. I completely threw my back out three times since then: August, October, and December. Over the course of 5 years with back problems, I’d gotten used to the standard once-a-year occurrence. Usually whenever this happened, it would only take a week or two to heal up and I’d be back to rearranging furniture and whatnot. But dealing with pain and immobility every two months is quite a blow to my typical productivity, and the last incident took well over a month to go away. I’m still not completely better, but I’d give it a good 95%, which is much more manageable.
Several appointments with the doctor, neurosurgeon, and physical therapist have revealed that I have two bulging discs: one that presses on my sciatic nerve, which may or may not have also had pieces break off of it. The doctor said yes to the last point, but the neurosurgeon said nothing about it. At this point, no surgery, but instead strengthening exercises and weeks of physical therapy.
That said, yes. Yes, I did still craft. I managed to rearrange more furniture too, in between disc flare-ups. I also managed to stay on the Dean’s List in the fall, and now a new semester has started up. It will probably be summer again before I go back to the Documenting My Crafts blog, but I’m sure I’ll do some retroactive posts, including refinished furniture, painting small objects, scrapbooking, adventures in wire jewelry, designing several clocks, and other crafty goodness.
