Tag: chronic pain

My Chronic Pain Battle: Fake Sciatica, Tendonitis, Muscle Strain, Whatever

back pain, chronic pain, prayer

Note: Chronic pain blogs are mostly only interesting to other people with chronic pain. We eat this stuff up. Soooooo, friends, do not feel like you have to sit through this one.  Ha! Or feel free to scan and read only the one line paragraphs. I do that a lot too. My Chronic Pain Battle: Fake Sciatica, Tendonitis, Bursitis, Muscle Strain, Whatever it is! The first time I developed “sciatica”, whether it ever actually was sciatica or not, I have […]

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The Christmas Miracle, Followed by My Great Christmas Crash

4 kids, Christmas, parenting, vacation

Almost two weeks ago, I set out with my four boys to fly from California to Georgia for Christmas. We managed to arrive in one piece, with all of our luggage, but that was not the miracle. Or maybe that was also a miracle. ha! As I shepherded the four of them, plus myself, our five back-packs, and countless electronic gadgets through the security machines, we followed the rules very nicely, and I counted the heads of my children 300 […]

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Can Open, Worms Everywhere: The Back Pain, The Stress, and The Home Schooling

back pain, home school, stress
Can Open, Worms Everywhere: Why We Decided Home Schooling Isn't for Us

Such an anti-climactic couple of days around here. Do any of you have chronic back pain? I sure do. Upper back, lower back. It goes down the side of my right leg. It pops up in my wrist. I’m always hurting, some days worse than others. When I want to pretend like I feel fine, I pop an Advil 800 and head out into the world. When I want to sleep, I take Tylenol PM. I lay on hot packs. […]

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