Friday March 15

 

A few weeks ago Brent had a mishap while carrying a large person down some stairs on duty.

He hurt his back.

That's not unusual.....he throws his back out quite often.

Herniated disc.

But usually it takes s couple days of him taking it easy, and it settles back down.

Well, this time it wasn't getting any better.

He went to the chiropractor a few times.

First time it felt awesome.....for a couple days.

The next time he went, he left feeling 100% worse.

After talking to a guy at work who just had back surgery because the chiropractor messed up something.....and hearing his horror stories.

And after talking to the Fire Department Dr....he decided to get an MRI done.

Well, he just went in today to talk about the results with the F.D. Dr.

The disc is now herniating and bulging in towards the spinal chord.

He thinks that getting a steroid shot will help to relieve the pain and hopefully reduce the swelling so the disc can slip back in, if that's what you call it :)

But he can't get in with the other Dr. for the shot until the beginning of next week.

So the doc wrote him a note to keep him off duty for the next shift.

And he is not supposed to do anything.

The doc doesn't want him doing any more damage.

I sure hope things get better.

We leave on Thursday for a VERY long drive.

I don't know how he is going to do that in his present condition.

And then I don;t know how he will hold up doing the hand gun course.

So lets just hope that the shot helps him, and quickly.

He laid on the floor today, cause sitting hurts.

He piled up pillows under his back and then rotated ice and heat.

And he and Porter got to watch lots of boy shows.

So it's not all bad :)

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Porter carried his Batman shirt, jacket, and Spiderman shirt with him all day.

He kept rotating between Batman and Spiderman shirts.

But he always had the other one in hand with him....

It was kinda funny.

That kids makes me laugh.

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I took Madi and Cassi to Kara's surprise birthday party tonight.

They had so much fun.

And it sounds like they really surprised her good :)

And I got 'Rise of the Gaurdians' for the little kids, Dad and I to watch while the big girls were gone.

So it was a fun night for all.