Guest Linda S Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 I'm just looking for a place to upload a picture I need on the web for another purpose. My advice to you all: If you want a long career as a longarm quilter, do not do this to your back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra Darlington Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 OMG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybee Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 OH my, what did you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 Are those pins? Vert fusion? Ouch, glad I didn't have my neck done:o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurie Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 YIKES! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 Ouch! Your spine looks similar to the xray of my right foot heel bone except I have 15 screws and a plate in that thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 Wow Linda you must set off the alarms in the airport! So sorry that you have such problems with your back. I'mostly lucky because my back problem comes and goes but thankfully it isn't bad all the time! Bless you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meg_marsh Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 been there - done that ............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon M Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Originally posted by hmerrill Wow Linda you must set off the alarms in the airport! yep, the airport alarms do go off! I walked through security waving a doctor's note in my hand!... didn't want to be strip searched!! worked for me! Linda, I hope that's not as painful as it looks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iedquilts Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 ouch... looks painful. Irene in BC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Linda S Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 LOL - no I don't set off alarms at the airport. I thought I might, but I don't. It's the bottom of my spine - three level lumbar fusion. Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 I have a doctor's appt this afternoon, my neck is no better....any who...this picture makes me want to cancel Linda, I know you have had lots of pain and problems with your back, hope you are doing better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbigailE Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 Owie, Owwie! Ouch, prayers for pain free. This hurts just to look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roberta Posted December 2, 2009 Report Share Posted December 2, 2009 Yikes, Linda that doesn't look like something easily ignored.. I hope it isn't too terribly painful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 I love this title..."PLease Ignore"...of course I went right to this one :P Then we see the picture and we need to ignore it?? I don't think so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 I agree Mary Beth, telling a bunch of women to "please ignore" get real, it just draws us in. LOL, I know it wasn't your intention but you just have to smile. I hardly ever look at this topic, but you got me to look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda G. Craig Posted December 3, 2009 Report Share Posted December 3, 2009 Yup, just like a magnet! As soon as I'm supposed to ignore something, I just can't!!! LOL! Wow, that is such a painful picture to look at. My prayers are with you and your back. I promise never to complain about my back again!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Linda S Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 I have to admit that this is quite painful. I fell over backwards 2.5 years ago and landed with my tailbone on the corner of my lawnmower engine (I caught my heel on the lawnmower deck). Ruptured the three bottom discs in my spine. Turned out I already had arthritis and degenerative disc disease, so the wreck made the vertebrae sort of tilt and I ended up with scoliosis. I had surgery last November, so I'm a little over a year out of surgery. I am quite stiff, but I go to physical therapy every week (very handsome physical therapist, who has become a friend) and I deal with it. I'm actually much more comfortable at my quilting machine than I am at my desk in the office!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stashed Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 As a nurse ~ I just have to ask ~ what the heck happened there?! Looks like a spinal fusion or repair of some kind. Are those screws? The 'this is beyond belief' reaction I had looking at this xray reminds me of an Alzhiemer's patient I cared for once who kept trying to hand himself a piece of paper in the mirror--was getting very frustrated and upset and kept returning to the mirror many times throughout the day doing the same thing. I couldn't stand watching him being so frustrated, so I took a black felt tip pen and put wavy lines horizonitally across the mirror with a 2" space between them hoping he would see that there was a barrier between what he thought was himself and the other man. So after a while he walked up to the mirror and studied it for a moment then said, "I'll tell you what--that was one hell of a mudslide!" I feel for you needing such a lot of spinal repair--that must have been one heck of a recovery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustSewSimple Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 Just don't get too close to a magnet or you will be there for awhile! Does your pin-bowl in the sewing room stick to you once in awhile? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted September 19, 2010 Report Share Posted September 19, 2010 We are worst and a band of sheep...Ones goes through the gate and the rest just follow. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindasewsit Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 Bonnie...LOL!!!! I just had to look at what I was supposed to ignore!!! :P:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cblevins Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 OUCH!!!! That looks soooooooo painful. How in the world do you manage to quilt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starrynight Quilter Posted September 20, 2010 Report Share Posted September 20, 2010 Linda The pain can be excrutiating, some days woarse than others...expecially when the weather changes! I feel for you girl. Chronic pain is not easy to deal with. It can be physically and mentally draining. Thank goodness that the good Lord gave us skills such as sewing and listening to music in order to help us "zone out" when the pain gets bad. As hard as it may seem at times, keep on smiling, keep on moving...look forward, don't look back. My prayers are with you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeke Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 Been there and done that back in 94. Loads of fun. Then another in my neck in 96 and again in 97 in my back again. Yippee!!!! Zeke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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