Physical Therapy

In just a few minutes I will be leaving the house to drive to one of our local fitness centers to have my first physical therapy session for my lower back.  My back has been giving me problems since 1990, about 30 years, and all I have to do is bend over and raise back up wrong and my entire lower back reels in pain when I try to stand back up which is not totally possibly and I have to walk with my back bend over about 30 degrees.  In order to remedy this, I am forced to lay on my back several hours a day for 3-4 days before the pain is eliminated.

I have been to lower back/spinal specialists 4 or 5 times since 1990 and they have given me back braces or sent me to therapy in an attempt to fix the situation.  MY PROBLEM is that after attending those therapy sessions, I failed to continue with the exercises...  and if I had continued, there is a good possibility my lower back problems may have never returned.\

So today, I have another opportunity to follow through...  perhaps I am going to listen this time...

Physical Therapy

I will have to wait another week before I see my Oncologist and ask him if my lower back problems while mainly caused by old age could have also been made worse by my cancer treatments...  since it was my cancer treatments that caused by hypothyroidism...  however and in the meantime, I will be seeing a Physical Therapist this Thursday and twice a week for 12 sessions to give me lessons (more or less) or exercises I can do to strengthen the muscles around my lower back to minimize my back pain even though old age is mainly to blame.

I've been to two of these damn therapists before but failed to follow through at home after the sessions ended but realize that my lack of follow through must stop if I am to attempt to live a quality life in my old age.

What is even more outrageous is the fact that my Medicare Supplemental Insurance Plan provided by Humana gives me a FREE GYM MEMBERSHIP (called Silver Sneakers) at the same frigging place that I will be going for my physical therapy which is about 1.5 to 2 miles from the house.

HOW STUPID DO YOU THINK I AM???