My dad has been having a lot of back pain lately.  It seems like once a month or so he would go into the doctor and they would give him a muscle relaxer shot and send him home.  This seemed kind of stupid because it became obvious this wasn’t a long term solution.  He just had to come back every month.  When we were at his house, at least two times I saw him standing there and suddenly clutch his back and almost collapse.  So clearly there was a problem.

On Thursday or Friday he started having pain in his leg and it was going numb.  By Saturday he figured he better go to the doctor or else he may have permanent damage in his leg.  By this morning he was in surgery for a herniated disc.  The surgery apparently went well and he was at home by this afternoon.

So all in all, not too bad considering it required surgery.  I’m hoping this will mean an end to his back pain, since until this happened they didn’t really have a long term solution for him.

Now on to his next problem…it might just kill him to be out of work for 4 weeks.

P.S.  That means he’s going to miss our camping trip! 😦  People are dropping like flies from that one.