OWWWWWWW My Hip!

That makes me sound old, doesn't it?

I seem to have fucked up my sciatic nerve on the left side of my hip. It hurts really badly if I'm standing for a long time or sitting in a seat with raised edges. I am currently taking Percocet for it and boy oh boy do they make me loopy! I have to be really careful with these though, as I don't want to become addicted to them. I just love having an addictive personality. It makes everything I do that much harder. I have to think about things like how much is too much? Is my tolerance high already because I have done so many drugs in the past? Will this amount harm me more in the long-run, or is it worth not having to suffer from pain?

The best part of this whole situation is that it happened to me while I was shovelling the damn heavy, wet snow we had last and I was out there doing so because my hubby had a job interview and I didn't want him to mess up HIS back before he left!

It didn't start in the hip, however. I started to feel bad back pain as if I had pulled the muscles in my lower back and then went bowling the night after. My back was sore but not my hip while I was bowling. It took about a week for the hip pain to show up. Now my back feels peachy keen but I can't shake this hip problem.

I saw a nurse practitioner at my Doc's office about it and she ordered x-rays and an MRI. The x-rays were negative and I was told that it may take quite a while for this to heal and that I should be going to physiotherapy.

So far I have called about six places and none of them are covered by our public healthcare (OHIP) and I am piss-poor broke. I guess it's not in the cards for me to get the help I need right away. Or at all for that matter; it's not like money is going to magically appear on that stupid money tree we have in the living room. What a misleading name for a plant, I tell ya!

So for now, I get to be loopy.

Needless to say, this is putting a cramp in my bowling style, man. I was just starting to get back into bowling and this damn hip thing has to go and fuck with it. How am I ever going to make bowling cool again if I can't even go out and play it?!

Ahhh back to Wii bowling for me I suppose! I have mastered the "too lazy to even get off the couch" bowling moves. That's right, I am a couch potato bowler now. I am badass.