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Well, I’ve survived the injection, but only just…

I went into the surgery and the doctor laid me face down on the bed before giving me a little anaesthetic in the lower back. With a kindly, “This might hurt a little,” he started to give me the epidural injection.

Well, the pain was excruciating. For the next thirty minutes, little by little, he injected all the stuff into my back as I gripped the sides of the bed and screamed into the pillow. The nurse held my arms down and told me it would be over soon.

As it turned out, it was far more painful than it should have been. The prolapsed disk didn’t leave enough room for the fluid to be injected, so as the doctor pressed the syringe, the disk was pressed further into the nerve and hence the pain…sheesh!

Anyway, at about the twenty five minute mark, I started to go into shock. My heart rate and blood pressure dropped, so he squirted the rest of the juice in before whisking me away to recovery where I spent the next hour and a half.

I was exhausted, so slept for most of this time. When I got home I felt pretty crook and spent the day in bed trying not to throw up.

A day later, things are feeling much better. I have very little back pain, though the full use and feeling on my left side has not returned. This isn’t such a good sign, but nothing can be decided until the end of the week when the drugs should have taken full affect.

Not a great way to spend my boys fifth birthday, but at least the lego made things a little better!