Hi all! Not been here much, between work and hectic home, and still dealing with reprecussions, aftermath, paperwork of my daughter's wreck that totaled one of our 2002 cars ...Dealing w/ my BP daughter who has made great strides in the past few years but still is resisting the hought of making real, lasting but important changes in her life. My problems always seen to take a back seat.

Now MY DEVELOPING problem...I have noticed, over the past 6 months or so, that my lower back pain, and into my legs, etc, has been increasing. I had an MRI a couple of weeks ago, and it showed all levels in my lumbar above the fusion level have bulging discs, whicH were'nt there before. I don't plan on doing much for that, will only have another lumbar surgery if my life, or my legs, are in danger of something awful, besides pain.

Then, on Wednesday of this past week, my hubby and I were sitting in our We were sitting in our car, waiting at a red light after leaving work and, BOOM, we were hit from the back, rear-ended, as they say. There were 2 other cars, the one car hit the SUV behind us, and then the SUV smashed into us. It was quite a hit, altho the rear bumper is merely cracked. So here it is, 3 days later, and my whole back feels like it's out of whack - any bending movement, one way or the other, and OUCH I get a shooting pain. I'm only talking about a bend a couple of inches one way or another. It's not just my back, but my hips, knees, neck hurt too, but the back area is the WORST!! I don't know what to do now....I do have a PM appt on Monday, and this will be the chief topic of the day, but HELP - I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THIS, besides sitting in my recliner, or laying down, FORGET doing any housework this week-end

I just can't deal w/ this again! SUGGESTIONS????

WELL, AT LEAST IT'S A WEEKEND

Hope you all have better plans! Hugs, Jacquie