Comments on: Why I Probably Owe You an Email or Something

By: Joseph Kelsey

Joseph Kelsey — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:28:29 +0000

Chris, don’t ever feel bad about getting better. I have followed your posts on facebook. I am sorry that you were hurting so much. I am a very big Dragon Age fan, and honestly I could wait a long time for the 3rd DA book. I love what you do with them. I loved watching Tabletop with you on it.

By: Erik Evjen

Erik Evjen — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 20:02:03 +0000

Hey man, there’s no worries about anything as this is a serious health issue. That is a bit more important than emails and such.

As I had a player in one of my games that suffered from the same pinched nerve, I know that it’s a really rough time, so do what you need to do to feel better. I’m pretty sure everyone understands wholeheartedly throughout the community.

Hoping you feel better soon! And if you ever want to trade some classic punk songs/stories, I’m down.

By: Pete Mancini

Pete Mancini — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:34:54 +0000

I broke my back in 2006. It was a minor fracture and after the initial injury which I don’t remember it seemed to be fine. Then, slowly it got worse. I was sucking it up for 9 months before I got an MRI. At that point it was a situation where two vertebra and a disk were horribly messed up. I needed surgery but didn’t have insurance and even if I did, no surgery offered had the level of success I’d be happy with in order to greenlight the procedure.

One day in 2009 in the midst of a horrible, horrible cold I felt WONDERFUL. The back was better. I went running for the first time in almost 3 years. I was so amazed I called home. I had to take medication for my eye because that was affected. I quickly determined it had to be the anti-biotics going into the eye that were helping as their would be a way to by-pass the blood/spinal fluid barrier that way. Alas, I was wrong. A week later I was back to pain. It turns out your body will produce cortizone (a steroid) naturally when fighting a bad infection.

Eventually the back healed after I lost weight and did a lot of core exercise. It might be worth it to consider the benefits of doing basic core exercises on a stability ball. Even if you have pain, it might be your way out of it for good in the long run. In my case the one concept of truth that kept me going was “the only way out of hell, is through it.”

I hope you feel better soon. I hope whatever they are doing brings you relief. I spent far to long on strong narcotics like what you are on and I can say they will only serve you in the short run.

–PMM