By the time this post auto-publishes, I'll be on the road to a local hospital for a procedure known as a caudal epidural injection. It's designed to inject medication to control nerve pain into the caudal space, a hollow channel running up through the base of the spine. It's an interim treatment for severe back pain and associated limitations on mobility. If it works, it'll buy me time to prepare for the major back surgery that I'm going to need relatively shortly. If it doesn't work, well, I won't be any worse off (apart from a punctured coccyx and a sore butt! The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune have nothing on the scalpels and needles of sadistic surgeons . . . )
I'm not looking forward to the procedure, but I don't have any alternative to it right now, so here's hoping. Prayers for medical success would be appreciated. I'm not sure who's the patron saint of injections through the butt into the spine, but if there is one, I'll gladly invoke their intercession! (Saint Sebastian was shot through by arrows: do you think he might qualify?)
Peter
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