MY ACHING BACK

IN ONE OF MY LAST WRITTINGS I MENTIONED HURTING MY BACK. AT THAT TIME THERE WAS SOMETHING MADE FROM PAPYA JUICE THAT SOME ORTHOPIDIC DRS. WERE USING TO INJECT INTO THE DISC TO EAT THE INNER PART OF THE DISC THAT WAS GIVING PEOPLE TROUBLE. DR. MCCOWIN [FATHER OF THE NOW DR. MCCOWIN] WAS THE DR. I WENT TO AND HE DID THAT PROCEDURE ON ME. WELL MY BACK DIDN'T GET BETTER AND I SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON THE COUCH AND MIGHT I ADD FEELING SORRY FOR MYSELF. WHEN I DIDN'T GET BETTER HE SENT ME TO SALT LAKE TO SEE A DR. MOMBERGER WHO WANTED TO OPERATE BUT HAD TO GET AN OK FROM THE WORKERS COMP FOLKS. SO I ENDED UP SEEING A PHYCHISTRIST AS I COULDN'T POSSIBLY STILL BE HURTING THAT MUCH. THEN I WAS SENT TO ANOTHER DR. WHO HAD MORE XRAYS TAKEN AND THIS TIME THEY HAD ME LEAN OVER FOR ONE OF THE SIDE WAYS PICTURES. THE VERTEBRA OPENED UP WITH NOTHING LEFT FOR PADDING IN BETWEEN. [HAD I BEEN A SUING PERSON I SUPPOSE I COULD HAVE SUED THE DR. BUT WE DIDN'T EVEN THINK OF THAT.
I WENT BACK TO SALT LAKE AND DR. MOMBERGER OPERATED AND AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL PENNY AND THE FRIEND WHO SHE WAS LIVING WITH TOOK ME IN FOR A FEW DAYS TILL VERELAN COULD COME GET ME AND BRING ME HOME. THEY WAS LIVING IN A PLACE HER FRIEND HAD PURCHASED.
I THEN SPENT THE SUMMER TRYING TO GET BETTER BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN RIGHT AWAY. DR. MOMBERGER SENT ME TO A BACK CLINIC IN MINNESOTA AND THEY INJECTED MY BACK WITH SOME THING FOR MORE XRAY'S AND THAT IS WHEN THE PAIN STARTED TO SUBSIDE. I'LL ALWAYS BELIVE THAT A NERVE WAS CAUGHT IN BETWEEN THE BONES IN MY SPINE AND THE INJECTION FINALLY RELEASED IT. I COULD BE WRONG BUT THAT IS WHAT I THINK. IN THE MEAN TIME I WALKED AND WALKED TO GET MY STRENGTH BACK. A DEAR FREIND MAE PULSIPHER WOULD PICK ME UP IN HER CAR DURING THE WINTER MONTHS AND SHE TOOK ME TO THE OLD MALL ON YELLOWSTONE TO WALK. WE WENT DOWN TOWN AND WALKED AROUND THE STREETS WHEN THE WEATHER WAS NICE. WE HAD LUNCH IN SOME VERY DIFFERENT PLACES THAT I'D NEVER BEEN TO. IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER WE WALKED DOWN TO THE RIVER FROM MY HOUSE AND BACK THEN WE EVEN WALKED ALL AROUND THE RIVER BEFORE IT GOT TO BE THE GREEN BELT.
ONE DAY AS WE WALKED NO SIDE WALKS THEN JUST THE UNPAVED DIRT TRAIL AROUND THE RIVER THAT WAS TWO WAY TRAFFIC A MALE GOOSE CHASED US AND WE OLDER LADIES WAS RUNNING TO GET AWAY FROM HIM WHEN A FELLOW IN A CAR GOING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION FROM US BANGED ON THE SIDE OF HIS CAR AND DISTRACTED THE GOOSE. WE DID MAKE IT HOME SAFELY THAT DAY. WE WALKED ALL OVER THE NORTH END OF IDAHO FALLS DURING MY HEALING PROCESS. I WILL ALWAYS BE INDEBTED TO MAE FOR HER KINDNESS TO ME. I ALSO THINK OF HOW SWEET PENNY AND HER ROOM MATE WERE TO ME AT A TIME OF NEED. THERE REALLY ARE ANGELS ON THIS EARTH IN MORTAL BODIES.
I WOKE UP AWHILE AGO AND HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET BACK TO SLEEP SO DECIEDED TO GET UP AND WRITE THIS STUFF. NOW MAYBE I CAN RETURN TO BED AND GET SOME MORE SLEEP BEFORE THE ROOSTER CROWS.