Jay Fenster

I’ve upgraded the site to WordPress 2.7.

So in attempting to zazz up more++, I wound up screwing up something and having no idea how to fix it, so I’m once again hitting the reset button on that project.  I wish I had enough time to actually devote to my websites and various other projects. But even with a full featured CMS at my fingertips I’m just not writing.

I wonder if it’s a similar situation to what would happen if you worked as a porn star, and didn’t want to have sex at home at the end of the night because you’d been doing it all day on the clock.

That’s clock. C… L…

I somehow managed to give myself yet another bizarre freak injury today. I was getting ready for work, putting on my clothes in the walk-in closet off my bathroom. I braced myself against the wall with my right hand as I pulled the second sock onto my left foot.

I felt as if my back was cramping up, but only for a split second – then it was like a dam bursting, lighting me up with pain like a Christmas tree, radiating from near my kidney all the way down to my knee, all the way up to my armpit and straight through my abdomen.

Now, I’ve had back issues for about a decade or so at this point, but they’ve always been pretty much confined to my upper back and environs – my neck and shoulders. I’d never had pain in my lower back before, and I’d never felt anything like this – anywhere. I knew right away that something was wrong and told Casey I needed to see a doctor – today.

I called my doctor; their response was “go to the ER.” I called my company’s health clinic, they told me to go to an urgent care center. I opted for the latter.  It was the right choice, as there was nobody in the waiting room. I was examined and x-rayed. The verdict: a pinched sciatic nerve, causing acute lower back pain and muscle spasms. Great. Even better, the doctor tells me not to expect much improvement for 3 to 4 days and advises me not to return to work until Thursday.

I’m medicated to the point of comfort right now, thankfully this didn’t happen last week or the week before. As it is, I’ve been taking care of loose ends and miscellaneous projects from home as my condition permits.

Moral of the story: never wear socks.