Scoliosis Pain: Here we go again!

Boy what a week it was last week! We started our new business selling Portable Power Solutions, our stock arrived and then the phone started ringing, orders were coming in and Chris and I found ourselves very busy, up and down the coast all day long, delivering this and that, we also went to a great networking meeting and met some good guys running various businesses, it was nice to network with like minded people :)

We also bought ourselves a pitch at a Danish do in Fuengirola, however, this turned a bit sour for us as we felt that the audience were not for us so decided to call it a day and cancel the Saturday and Sunday pitch, we were glad about that as it rained on Saturday, and with our products using Solar it would have been no good that we were inside the building, the Solar products could not come into their own.

However, all this activity has taken it's toll on my spine and now I am suffering big time, I am bent over and cannot get straight, I have tried but the pain is too much, I have been in floods of tears, this happens to me every 6 months, or so it would seem anyway.

Whenever I work hard I never seem to reap the benefits, all that happens to me is pain, I suffer as a result of all my hard work, thank goodness for my memory foam bed, at times like these I don't know what I would do, I am having to work in bed at the moment but I even get sore when I am in bed, I am soooooo frustrated right now as I have a ton of work I want to get done plus I have products that we need to get rid of, not going to do that sitting in bed am I!

I have booked a Bowen session and I go there tomorrow, first time since last September that I have had treatment, tomorrow will not be fun as I usually have a healing crisis which hurts like hell!

Fingers crossed that the Bowen can help me tomorrow and allow me to continue my quest to being rich! LOL

So much for a pain-free life

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Not much to talk about. I've been loving the Flexeril, although I've never had dry mouth this strong before. I got new electrodes for my TENS unit, but haven't had to use them yet. I've had quite a bit of free time on my hands - I lost my job.

The pain seems to all but disappear when I don't have to work! I doubt I'll be able to afford Cobra coverage, but I'm gonna try my best to find the money somehow. Otherwise I have no way to take care of myself until I get a new job with insurance. The surgery is off.

I found out today it's way more expensive than my mom or I had imagined. Six figures. I doubt that even includes the hospital stay, rehab, plus all the assorted "little" fees, like medication and the staff's fees - radiologists, ahoy! I have no idea what the doctor would even do, so I kinda resent the lady there telling me that. It really took the wind out of my sails. Her saying that killed the only hope I had of ever having a normal life. I told my mom to just eat the cost of the plane tickets she purchased. They're non-refundable, but she got a really good deal.

It would be nice to meet him and see what he can do, but now I feel like I'd just be wasting his time.

So.... the update i promised!

Yeh, I sorta forgot about writing in to the blog after I got my new brace but I have finally remembered.

My new brace isn't much different from my old brace, except it hurts a lot more!!! Now I remember why I used to not mind going swimming!

Speaking of swimming, does anyone else here HATE going swimming for their back? Coz I have never been a swimmer and can't stand it!

Anyway, so I went to the hospital on Thursday and got my new brace. It was obviously taller and made me stand uo even straighter than I had been standing before! The doctor took away Soapy, my old brace.

So I went home and lied down (because I could hardly breathe!) and had to take the next day off school as well.

I don't like my new brace much. I've called it Bossy the Boston Brace (yeh, I know, very original!) and it kills at times! It doesn't even have holes all over it yet. When I breathe in suddenly, air rushes out of somewhere and makes a huge wooshing sound. My old brace did NOT do that.

Now that I have Bossy, I can't wait for the end of 2010, when I'll probably be rid of brace wearing forever! I've never actually thought of it like that, but scoliosis has changed my life so much! I know, i'm seriously weak and went through pretty much a year of depression because of other things, but they wouldnt have affected me as greatly if I hadn't had to wear a layer of plastic to school every day.

I used to be so carefree and headstrong and didn't care about what anyone else thought of me but now, I'm actually following fashion in attempt to look normal.
Now I have a very important question to ask all you scoliosis experts: Is scoliosis a disability? just wondering.