Doin' the Twist

And that's NOT a good thing.

My tailbone has twisted to the side.

Again.

For the THIRD time since we moved to West Lafayette in 2006.

And it makes riding my bicycle hurt, so needless to say, I am out of the saddle again and very frustrated about that.

Last week as I rode, I started feeling some intermittent pain during rides. Thursday I rode nine miles, and when I got home, the pain was pretty bad. I took Friday and Saturday off from riding, hoping that by Monday morning I would feel better. (I don't ride on Sundays - horses or bicycles.)

I didn't take into account the hard, metal chairs at Church. I squirmed Sunday throughout Sacrament meeting, and ended up swiping a padded chair from the Relief Society room for Sunday School. (Shades of Leda Stevenson and the lawn chairs she used to bring to Church to alleviate her own back pain flashed through my mind!)

That metal chair seemed to be the last straw for my tailbone - for the rest of Sunday it hurt to sit on anything, padded or not, and although I am on Celebrex and took two extra strength Tylenol, nothing touched the discomfort.

I have called Dr. Morris, and he sent me directly to my favorite physical therapist, Dusti, who twice now has gotten my twisted tailbone back into place. She had no open appointments until August 6, but at least I can see her before school starts and my schedule gets crazy again.

(I also see Dr. Daluga this Thursday to have my hip prosthesis x-rayed and checked, so I may say something to him since he specializes in orthopedics.)

In the meantime, don't anyone DARE play Chubby Checkers' music around me, or mention the game of Twister!!