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Because the problem is complicated by MS affecting the muscles in your back, you really do need to see the doctor. If possible, see if you can get a referral for a specialist in Rehab Medicine. Long before viable surgical treatments were available for my conditions, I relied on an extensive rehab program and hospitalization, just to stabilize the back. That kept me going for 15 years until they could develop a surgical technique. I've had 2 surgeries, since, to repair and delay continued spinal cord deterioration. Honest truth is that with the more serious spinal problems, there are no cures, just repairs and controls. There are limitations

Sciatica is a fairly common symptom of lower back pain. Personally, I've gotten more relief by combining physio and chiro treatments. No it does not subside quickly. Used to take 3-6 weeks to feel semi- normal. Extreme compression on the nerves can require hospitalization Also depends on the root cause behind the sciatica. Is it a compressed disc, DDD,fragmentation, a fracture, a form of stenosis? You may need to see an orthopedic surgeon or neurologist. As long as that root cause persists, the sciatica, and other symptoms, keeps coming back, and get progressively worse. Treatment has come a long way since Ham Hall's text "The Back Doctor", but his book is still a good manual for back care for yourself.

As ever, I hope for the best possible outcome for you and your Mrs.

She's good! But I'm still in love with Janice. The thing is it wasn't just her sound, the holding company just fit her like hand in glove. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzNEgcqWDG4

That would be some honour to play beside Earl Scruggs. We used to listen to a lot of Flatt and Scruggs, Stringbean, Roscoe Holcomb, Don Messer. We just liked folk music more. Still don't care for country. We also watched a lot of HeeHaw.

Don't know if any of you related to Yorkville, the Riverboat, concerts at the Masonic Temple, the old Mariposa festival. Here's a listen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiJ4vFZhxQI&feature=related

Nobody does Christmas like the muppets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR_8kmOmxyk

Supposed to be the PE-2 magnum? Thing is as big as my bed. Too big to even open up in the living room. Sure will make things a lot more comfortable on the ice. I'll still keep the backpack hut for days when I'm on my own, and it's not too windy.

This fall has been a continuation of a series of nightmares that have gone on for 2 year and some. The wife and daughter have serious health problems, and the relationship with the son has been anything but easy. With one piece of bad news after another, and my wife's condition getting progressively worse, I figgered Christmas was going to be another horrible experience. This morning the son asked me to run him to the tackle shop ( police pulled the plates on his rust bucket) Nothing new in browsing there. I can do that every week. Any how my son tells me it's time for something better than the backpack, so I'm getting a new ice hut for an early Christmas present. Of course it also means that he will have to get out with me every weekend. http://www.icefish.com/catalog/item.php It certainly is more than my broken body can handle by myself. He didn't have to, and he should not have, but I am still a little off guard, and certainly as tickled as a school boy with a new toy. Like the Grinch, I'm feeling "all tingly inside", and I may just have sprung a leak.

Thanks for the misty moment. The son took me out this morning for a wee shocker.

Late 60's to early 70's saw some wicked Canadian talent flooding the airwaves. We've heard from Neil, the Guess Who, the Band in this session. How about... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yay4YMyL8U0 0r some full sound. Used to love playing the horn parts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45PhxoPxeT4&feature=related

Reminds me of these boys. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jadvt7CbH1o Remember pogo dancing?

Every road trip the cousin and I made was with the 8 track blast out their Greatest Hits over and over again. That and a lot of "Locomotive breath"

Only the ultimate "Grind" tune of all time.

I like the groups that led to Zeppelin, better than Zep itself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRC0rdFokKM&feature=related

The Transit Authority

Canned Wheat......... Great album. I'm starting to regret having given all my vinyl away last year. Had no where left to store 12 milk crates full in the apartment.

My tastes were often a little more "eclectic" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W37x7lNP4DY

Music to "trip" on, back in the day.

LEt me guess. He's hoping for a life sized replica under the tree.

Only the French could take a simple measure and turn it into a ruddy great wad of bureaucratic bumpf that has to be continually defined and redesigned, thereby keeping several hundred idle minds on the public payroll. On top of it all, the French still can't shoot straight

Be nice, France terrified Europe under Bonaparte. Then again he was Corsican/ Italian. Not French at all.

If it is shiny, or rattles, a cat will chase it. Nothing more disturbing than trying to unhook a cat stuck on 4 barbs of a rattling rap. Someone left it rigged on the rod, and kitty thought it was a great toy. Guess who let me know their was a problem; the Dog. She just kept howling and running back and forth to the stairs until I went downstairs to check it out. As for the culprit, I never saw my daughter ever want to actually kill her brother until then. I could have used as many stitches as the cat got after releasing the poor thing from the lure. By the way, both animals are stupid enough as to love chewing on my feet when they are bored.

Not all cats are intelligent. My daughter left behind her cat with us. It empties it's dish every couple of hours and then hits the dog food. My dogs stretch out their food until they catch the fleabag's face in their bowl. My little jacks are far better at being ratters than the cat. The only time I really find cats annoying is during CFL season.

That's the area near Kejimkujik. There is a lot of fresh water oportunities in the area.