so here's part of what's up
Degenerative
Disc
Disease
AKA: DDD
SADLY for me, nothing to do with food or diners or dives or drive ins.
What it does mean, is that the disc in my spine that I had a laminectomy on in 2012 to repair the rupture, well, the disc is just about gone now, leaving bone on bone & as you can probably imagine, brings much pain along with movement. As bad as it is, im glad to have a diagnosis, cause for the past 2-3 months I've done little else besides taking care of Teddy & drugging myself up and passing out in the recliner. I didn't know or understand why, but I'd surround myself with pillows under my legs and on each side of me and wouldn't move besides wheni'd have to, like bathroom or to get food. Been working the new job the entire time & now understand why i felt so worthless & depressed. 12 hours on my feet trying to do this new department at work in my condition totally makes sense now, why I was too sore to do little else. Had to wait almost a month to get into the spine specialist to figure out what was going on. I was actually worried that I had possibly re-ruptured the disc with the way I was feeling, but now I know its cause the disc is almost gone..... entirely.
The specialist gave me a restriction for work of limited twisting, bending & lifting & no more than 8 hrs a day. Im curious whats going to happen now, if they will be able to find a job here that I can do, or if they will just put me out on Medical leave again for No Work Available, we'll see.
This is only part of what's been going on, the rest will have to wait.
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