Keep feeling herniation

As some of you might remember, 3 years ago, during my last year at Brainerd, I had a problem with a herniated disk in my lower back. I was quite often in excruciating pain, especially After sitting for extended periods. As some of my students would tell you, when I had to stand up from my computer and walk to the front of the class, this action was a painful one for me. I would limp, all hunched over. When it got really bad, I would try to go whole days without sitting down. I would grade papers while standing at my podium, for example. And once, while driving to Zorbaz, I had such extraordinary pain shooting down my leg that I had to pull over--it was too painful to use the pedals in my car and I thought I might crash.

So, I was told I would need surgery, but first I had a couple of epidural cortisone injections. Well, much to my happiness, the injections worked wonders, and my pain more or less went away. So the doctor told me that surgery was no longer needed. Hallelujah.

So for the next two years (my grad school years), my disk pain has been more or less nonexistent, which has been great.

Three days ago, my disk pain came back, and it is in prime form. Though I am not in quite the amount of pain I was in at my worst a couple of years ago, it is bad. Sitting down is quite an ordeal right now. The train has been an especially uncomfortable affair.

I am calling the doctor tomorrow. Fuck.