Weekend At-traction - Get It?

Beautiful weather this weekend - warm enough to lay out in the sun and get a little pale (I don't tan, I just go from deathly white to pale to burned in about 20 minutes). Of course, I now have to do "home traction" twice a day for 20 minutes, in addition to rage-inducing steroids and a sleep-inducing antidepressant which works for neuropathy, so I'm like an angry drunk much of the day - woohoo! We had a great dinner Friday night, followed by some traction. See how my neck is stretching out - can't you feel that disc slipping back in place?


And Saturday it was great to sit outside and wave at passing boaters since the weather was so nice. (No no, I'm not caught in a gill net...keep moving, you're creating a traffic jam...please put your cameras away...)

We had a delicious dinner Dean cooked Saturday night before going to a little neighborhood party. Luckily they had dimmed the lighting for the band, so I don't think anybody noticed the marks on my neck from the traction.

So anyway, I was going to show you the patterns I picked for the Betzina retreat but the Vogue site is being temperamental, so I'll try again later. Hope everybody else's weekend was as great as ours!

Am I Drooling Yet?

Well the aching neck and numb hands/feet continue, and the MRI showed.....a protruding disc compressing the spinal cord - tada! So Dean advises me not to wear white pants in case of sudden loss of bladder or bowel control which can come from spinal compression. (See, I KNEW uncontrollable flatulence was around the corner!) He's referring to this video clip posted by friends on Facebook - this does have 2 foul words at the end (even in German I understand sh*t and f***). Mother, you may want to pass on this, but Scott and Tracey, you'll want to see it. Really just so embarrassing for the poor reporter.

Anyway, I'm wondering if they DO have to do surgery to remove the disc, would they charge extra to split it in two and do some implants for me? You know, like fattening your lip up with fat from your hip. I see real possibilities here...making lemonade out of lemons, you know...not really melons by any means...exactly how big is a disc?

And here's a SNL clip for my brother - just a short commercial.