So I got the report on the MRI from my rowing-machine fall. Several new herniations, one of which is linked to the pain in my knees that just won’t go away. They want to know how people get hooked on painkillers? Make the co-pays for physical therapy too high for ordinary people to pay, and voila! Take a pill!
My only other option right now is to get cortisone injections in my spinal column, and I had really bad reactions the last two times I had cortisone shots. One ruptured a ligament in my ankle an hour after I got it, and the other one caused severe pain in my knee that never went away. So there you go.
And by “option,” I mean the one the lawsuit or my own insurance will pay for. A better option, at least for me, is prolotherapy for the ligaments supporting my spine, but that’s really expensive and insurance won’t cover it. Oh well.
They don’t actually want us to get well, in case you haven’t figured it out.
