You OK?

awesome as usual.

As a neurologist, a patient with serious cervical and lumbar disease, and a consumer of neurosurgery, my strong belief about interventions for lower spine pain issues is that the anatomy really has to map onto the symptoms before taking any action. In fairness to your surgeon, he has held off and is looking for proof before intervening, so that’s good.

I have no experience with discograms, but it makes theoretical sense and certainly goes right to the disc issue, the idea being to reproduce the pain, along with providing some additional imaging. The nerve block is less of a deal and also makes sense, but is somewhat less specific, since multiple things other than disc pathology will feel better after a successful block. When I had my disc blowout, there was never any question about what was causing my leg to feel like it was having a ******g baby, but the transforaminal injections I got helped immediately and specifically. Bottom line, either or both would probably be helpful and both are pretty safe.

I really hope there’s an answer soon, but a as miserable as this all is, it’s better than adding to your troubles with unnecessary surgery, which has a non-zero chance of causing new problems even in the best of hands. The neurosurgeon who did such a heroic job on my neck and saved my spinal cord talked me out of lumbar surgery, even though he had a clear target, and got me through with injections. That was in 2013 and my left quad is still visibly atrophied.

That also sucks unbelievably about the third party contract dispute.

Coach Joe was a fine, manly, man.

Thank you.:thumb:

It doesn't sound like Cobb County is so great after all.

yet I can still find Joy in the Datlas painting and the song I suggested to you.

Does porn count? Asking for a friend, of course.

Art is in the eye of the beholder. Who am I to judge?

I remember that lake. Damn, that's a lot of years.

Map of the day. Sherman hill and environs, courtesy of trains magazine.

https://www.trains.com/wp-content/up...manhillone.png

Are you a subscriber?

Not currently.

No time for magazines.

Which reminds me of a little ditty...

Also this, which funnily enough the little lady currently has playing in the kitchen as she prepares my dinner.

You watch baseball.

I don't want any magazines cutting into my baseball time.

#priorities

I'm missing the Seahawks game because it's on cable TV.

Cord cutters lament once again.

I keep hoping NFL will put MNF back on ABC like it was meant to be.

OMG! I rode my bike down this road in 2015.

I have a cord and I'm not watching it.

I think ABC owns ESPN. I've been looking in on it and neither team looks very good. At least not their offense.

Now they have Eli and Payton Manning along with Sue Bird chatting and commenting from their homes. Strange.

Or, what with the new Dune movie just out - B-B-B-B-B-Bene and the Gesserit.

Ouch. Humbug just posted on Strava - he broke his hip.

Hey now - don't forget the NSFW tag! This is the song responsible for parental advisory labels, after all!

Not good.