Update on Steve's injury

It's Thursday, and it's amazing what a few days of medication and rest can do. We returned from an appointment with the Doctor for a followup checkup. Steve's back is sore and He has numbness in his upper thigh, but feels so much better. The Doctor is ordering an MRI and an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon, The common thought with the ER Doctor and our family doctor is that this is a Herniated Disc injury. The Siatica Nerve is pinched and the Muscle Spasism is a result of the nerves being pinched. He is off of the Oxycodone and is taking 800mg Motrin in stead, He will continue taking the percocet and predisone. He is still not released to go back to work, but He has a long weekend anyway, so that will give his back more time to rest. He's really hoping that He doesn't have a serious injury and if He does, it can been healed with exercise and physical therapy. We'll know more after he has the MRI and meets with an orthopedic guy. Thanks for your prayers...

My weekend warrior is wounded

Well, Give Steve an extra day off and He will plug in as many projects as the daylight will allow.After completing the pruning on our Apple orchard, painting Ashley's bedroom, reinforcing the animal pens and doing his weekend yard work here and for his parents, We ended up at the doctor's office. He was in such pain this morning that He couldn't stand ,sit or lay down without feeling sharp pain in his back all down his leg. We got in to see the our doctor and Steve had to lay over the exam table,stomach down. The doctor came in and said this pain was caused by muscle spasims and gave him a shot of Torval, He prescribed Oxycotton and Percocet , No work for the next 3 days. Boy, this is one way to get him to relax. Pray that He will rest and let his body heal....