[Leica] Sciatica

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Thanks for the input guys!

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/


> From: "B. D. Colen" <bd at bdcolenphoto.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 21:04:38 +0000
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Sciatica
> 
> I had a ruptured disc and truly hideous sciatica about eight, nine years 
> ago.
> 12 weeks or so on high-dose oxy AND percocet - which of course lead to 
> weeks
> of weaning to get off it. But, the miracle cure for me was 2 injections of
> cortisone in the disc space, about six weeks apart. The first one brought 
> some
> relief, the second finished the job. I haven't had a twinge since. As the
> neurosurgeon said to me, ' we can do nothing, and there's a 90 percent 
> chance
> you'll be cured in a year. We can operate, and there's a 90 percent chance
> you'll be as good as new in 12 months. Or, we can try injections, and maybe
> they'll work, or maybe they won't.
> 
> Good luck.
> Typed with big fingers on tiny keys
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> Sender: lug-bounces+bd=bdcolenphoto.com at leica-users.org
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:55:41
> To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Sciatica
> 
> I heard that Pilate is good for training the core. You may want to look
> into it.
> 
> With Yoga, just remember to listen to your body and don't do things that
> it's telling you not to do. Yoga is now becoming a franchising business so
> there are unqualified teachers there. I do Tai Chi myself but real tai chi
> is even harder to find.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Sciatica
>> I've just had the most painful three  of weeks of my life.
>> But went to bed last night with my sweatshirt on and the AC down to 75.
>> Instead of tee shirt and 72.
>> And woke up not wracked in pain in my legs for the first time in 3 weeks
>> and
>> I got 8 hours of sleep not 5 or 4. I start Physical therapy Tuesday. I had
>> to cancel my Spring Lug Gallery gallery as normally I'd spend the morning
>> working on it and I've not been able to sit down for more than a minute
>> till
>> the sun went down. My last entry was May 24th.
>> Its from lifting boxes in my storage cubical in Portland May 10th - 16th. 
>> I
>> got a glimpse of my body of work in the large boxes in the back and my 
>> pots
>> and my books. My CD' are ready to go; to be sent over here. I'll have them
>> here soon though not my negs still they were in the back of the room and I
>> didn't make it to there.
>> The lesson is - when you hit middle age or older:
>> Don't loose your inner core strength.
>> Do exercises in the morning like Ted has his whole life.
>> I'm getting a folding mat. And taking up Yoga and anything else which
>> resembles it. Then I'll make up my own.  Publish it and be asked to
>> demonstrate it on a radio show.
>> You never know how many cameras you may have to carry and what they'd all
>> weigh. The Leica lenses don't just cost more they also get heavier every
>> year.
>> 
>> Summer is in ten days and I'll start and finish a Summer gallery. Picture 
>> a
>> day. From whatever year.
>> 
>> - - from my iRabs.
>> Mark Rabiner
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>> 
>> 
>> 
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