D. Lee Jackson

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Erm, Let’s Try That Again

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I thought I’d have had my MRI done by now. Nope. Turns out I picked up a bouncing baby case of bacterial sinusitis over the weekend (I probably inherited it from my wife). It developed into a rather nasty case by the time I got in to see my regular doctor Monday. No fun. I’m now on horse-pill-sized Augmentin for the infection. I’m also wheezing every time I try to lie down and get some rest.

As you can guess, all of my other appointments—MRI included—have been put on hold until I get over the infection. Watch this space for further developments.

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Can I Trade In My Back For A New One?

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I was hoping that by now I’d be posting about all of the accomplishments and progress I’ve made in novel writing and/or music composition. Alas, I have none to report. Bad timing and plenty of health problems have gummed up the works. After a planned short vacation, I got hit by a rather nasty upper respiratory infection and a skin rash at the same time. That took up January.

I thought I’d got my ducks in a row early in February, but on the first Monday of the month I woke up with severe pain along my right hip and leg. It progressed up to my back and down to my foot. My normal Chronic Pain Syndrome medicine wasn’t making a dent in it. I finally had to call the doctor (I almost didn’t make it to his office, thanks to the pain I had from working the gas and brake pedals of my Ridgeline). He gave me a steroid shot for the inflammation and a prescription for hydrocodone to kill the pain. The hydrocodone only worked at the maximum dose, so he gave me a refill and referred me to a spine specialist, whom I saw a couple of hours ago. He added Topamax to my hydrocodone and scheduled me for an MRI on this coming Monday (his first guess is a pinched nerve on my right side, with leftover pain on my left side from an L1 compression fracture that happened in June of 2009).

In summary, I haven’t managed to get a damned thing done, except for seeing doctors.

I’ll get the results from the MRI a week from tomorrow (Friday). I can only hope that my pain is something the doctor can fix, and not something that I’ll have to live with like I do with my ankle pain.

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Hard to Fathom

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This is a difficult post to type.

Last night’s sniper attack on Dallas police and Dallas Area Rapid Transit police was a despicable act. There is no justification for it, no matter from what angle you look at it. It’s hard to understand why someone would do it—just as hard as it is to understand the actions in other parts of the country that sparked the protest march through downtown Dallas, which the sniper took advantage of to the horror of the entire Metroplex.

I could say more, but this is primarily a writing and music composing blog and I prefer to keep politics out of it, no matter how strongly I might feel about the issues involved. Please allow me to just leave my condolences for those who have died tragically over the past couple of days. May they find peace.