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26 March, 2020

Good morning all. Hope everyone had a pleasant night! My wife got the email we were both dreading. Her department has been put on reduced hours through April 6 due to the hospital she works for doing away with all elective procedures. I have a feeling though it'll go longer. Oh well. We'll make it through this.

Hope everyone has a great day!

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I saw yesterday on the news about the tornadoes! So happy that you and yours were unaffected. The new stimulus package that just got passed will have better unemployment benefits for those that need it. Hopefully it won't come to that, but just in case...look out for it. You and the wife will get through things.
 
I saw yesterday on the news about the tornadoes! So happy that you and yours were unaffected. The new stimulus package that just got passed will have better unemployment benefits for those that need it. Hopefully it won't come to that, but just in case...look out for it. You and the wife will get through things.
Thanks Don. :)
 
Her department has been put on reduced hours through April 6 due to the hospital she works for doing away with all elective procedures
Wow, that surprises me. We stopped elective procedures two weeks ago, but we're not curtailing anyone. We'll need all the bodies we can get.
 
Wow, that surprises me. We stopped elective procedures two weeks ago, but we're not curtailing anyone. We'll need all the bodies we can get.
I was scheduled to go get more injections in my back yesterday but they canceled it along with all the others. Bad thing too. I've resorted to sleeping in my recliner full time now due to the back pain. I was able to get in to my spine doctor and get a trigger point injection. That helped some. Problem is it doesn't last long at all. I'm eating ibuprofen by the handful. That can't be healthy in the long run.
 
@MarkB have you looked into inversion therapy?
Would love to try this at some point as I have lower back issues also.


Sounds like you have a much more serious condition than I do. But what has helped me the most is building up the muscle in my lower back specifically, and mt core in general.

My Orthopedic Doctor approves of what I am doing and encouraged me to continue. But again...it sounds like your condition is different. Hope you can find some relief.
 
Sorry, stepped away for a minute.

It’s hanging upside down to decompress the spine. If you’ve seen the “teeter hangup” commercials. My dad had one, so we borrowed it to try on my wife. She has back issues and a couple of fusions. Three docs highly recommended it. But said with the fusions, start slow and don’t do full inversion, only partial. She just recently started so, we’ll see.
 
Wow, that surprises me. We stopped elective procedures two weeks ago, but we're not curtailing anyone. We'll need all the bodies we can get.
That’s what I was going to say. Pretty major to put staff on reduced hours, at a hospital given the current circumstances! There’s no way they can shift your wife and others into some support rolls?
 
That’s what I was going to say. Pretty major to put staff on reduced hours, at a hospital given the current circumstances! There’s no way they can shift your wife and others into some support rolls?
She does scheduling for the imaging dept. so with the elimination of elective procedures, they're not needing as many in the office.
 
27 March, 2020

Happy Friday to all! Hope you have a great day!

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