Yes--you're getting an epidural steroid shot. 'Epidural' just means a tailbone shot. Within about 2 days (if not almost immediate) you get relief. My insurance covers the treatments, but as I said, I still end up with copays & some some bigger bills til I meet my deductible--which is $800 & usually met by July. They use the X-ray to guide into the spine. But since you're lying face down, you don't see the machine, the image, the needles. Just nice soothing voices & background music. And the epidural procedure is very quick. Takes more to get ready for it than the actual process happening. Hoping for the absolute best outcome for you.(hugs) Cyndi ps since I'm having an autumn get=together this Sat, I will be getting my seasonal pumpkins & gourds for the front porch this week. It's been so warm though. They may go bad more quickly & I might need new by October.
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Good early morning Cyndi - I just got my pumpkin earlier this week. Can't have fall without a pumpkin :) Did you get one yet? I put a fall wreath on the outside door and bought two yellow mums. That concludes my fall decorations. We'll add Halloween later on. I went to my appointment on Thursday. No shot was done at that time. He went over my scans with me and explained how the procedure will go. It did sound very much how you explained it. He talked of getting a numbing agent like novacaine. He decsribed a steroid being injected near the tailbone. He did not mention the word epidural, so I do not know if it's all similar or what. It did sound like what you explained to me. Oh, did you have to lay under a smal x-ray machine? He said that would direct him on where to inject the shot. Made me feel a little squeamish imaging it. He did say the insurance would pay for it every three months. I'm glad it all worked out for you and hope it works out for me too. xo Darlene
We should finally start t see actual Fall temps next weekend. So this week, once again, the temps will be in the mid 90's. It's been such a long, dreaded summer. Got the yard cut this morning..and it should be the last one for the season. Enjoy your weekend..
Hello Darlene! we ended up with an inch and a half of rainfall yesterday, over several hours, so a good slow rain, which we needed so badly, it's been way back in June (IF I remember right) since we had a little bit of rain. Nothing for today, going to hit around 103 for a high though. Looks like we'll be having those temps a lttle longer. I go to the stores and all the warm clothes for winter are out...it's hard to think I should buy something for COLD weather when it's still in the 100's here! LOL! I hope you enjoy the weekend ahead!
he starts all these new wars ,and has no idea how to end them .
what with his stupid tarrifs ,and brown nosing Putin AND The Chinaman
The faster he is out of the whitehouse the better for the world .
He even wants to change the name of the Straits of Hormuz to Trump Straits,
now that is another smack in the teeth to the middle eastern countries .
and more reasons for them to hate America.
The guy is a madman .
Yes ,Gas ,food ,the economy have all suffered with his crazyness and awful ideas,
I truly think he is insane .
You talk a lot of sense ..
I was supposed to be in australia as we speak hun ,
But my sister has put it back until hopefully January ,as her daughter who has been here all summer with us and has herself gone back to OZ for a while where her boyfriend just proposed .(She Said Yessss)
she wants us to maybe go out in Jan instead now .So we have to see .
its all up in the air at the moment .
I should have been going ireland as well
but for other reasons that did not happen either .
but i will eventually visit both countries ,once the timings are right .
