"Fifty-five out of the 105 completed responses indicated the presence of prolonged post-operative pain (52%) (Table 1). Ten out of these 55 patients required medications for alleviation of their symptoms. Eleven out of the 28 patients (39.2%) who experienced mild back pain in the perioperative period developed persistent pain. In comparison, 23 out of 49 (46.9%) in the moderate perioperative back pain group and 20 out of 27 (74%) of the severe back pain group developed persistent pain.
Although persistent back pain intensity was rated as mild to moderate, it was sufficient to affect sleep or daily life in 28 and 36%, respectively, of those with persistent post-operative pain. A similar trend was seen when the pelvic component of the pain was examined in isolation. Almost half of this group reported prolonged pelvic pain of greater than 3 months in a duration that affected daily life in 25% and sleep in 14%."
IT WOULD SEEM THAT (nearly) EVERYONE GETS FUCKED OVER
hmm. i'm not sure if i ever updated about that posturepedic bed that was supposed to make all my sleep troubles go away and let me feel rested when i wake up. WORST BED EVER it's not a bed. it's a friggin sponge that you sink into. so uncomfortable. didn't change anything. went back to my old spring bed. on a related note, i'm still really exhausted all the time. i had a physical sometime last year and my doctor tells me i'm in great health and has no idea why i'm tired all the time. thanks for that btw. i'm sure that was worth the cost of the physical. the odd thing is i'm sitting here writing this, barely staying awake and yawning, but when i actually go to bed, i lie there awake for an hour. it's really terrible. i don't really get it. i'm just plain tired all the time. kinda wish that would stop
hmm what else. that computer that i thought had something wrong with it and it turns out it was the IDE controller card? well, yeah i built another computer etc. refer to last post, however, i was thinking, hell that previous computer probably had nothing wrong with it, i'll just get another PSU and it'll work fine. bought one, hooked it all up again WITHOUT faulty controller card anddddd...nothing. i think it's really dead. waste of $30. oh well, at least that one computer works now.
hmmmm what else... i'm kinda updating my music as it goes along. i think it's kinda funny how i hear a song and think it's kinda cool, then a couple months later it tops the charts. i guess my music tastes run with the rest of the country's opinion. anyone have any songs they wanna suggest that i....get. or movies for that matter... i don't really know why i ask 'cause i'm not going to get a response, as far as i know, only 2 people i actually know ever read my posts anymore and one of them is in my immediate family. kinda sad on my part.
oh, there was a surplus auction at work and guess how much i paid for a slightly used conference chair? that's right. $0.01. woo! then in round 2... guess what i got this pretty nice typewriter for... $1.01 woooo! my coworkers are all laughing at that. i thought it was pretty funny as well.
well, so couple months ago, the computer jeff and i assembled suddenly stopped working. i had no clue what happened, all the fans spun and everything powered up fine, there was just no BIOS beep or anything. i figure, it's old, the mobo probably burned out, i mean it's almost 8 years old, travelled multiple times etc. well, so i went about assembling a new one. well all the stuff comes in, i put it all together. start it up, again, nothing. well to precise, it was the same thing as the previous, no BIOS etc. well i tested the processor, the psu, the graphics card. everything. nothing. same thing. well finally some other epople helped me out, we did the step by step eliminating thing. well, at that point, figured out it was a PCI IDE controller card. this, i completely overlooked because it was...well it was a PCI card. it should've been a non-issue. however, i overlooked the fact that, as an IDE controller card, it had its own BIOS. i assume something, a power surge or some such made that card fail and the computers tried to boot from that card first, as opposed to booting from its own BIOS.
well it works now, finally. gave it to my parents. my dad says "it's faster" going from a pentium 1 ghz pentium 2, 256 ram to a 2.0 ghz quadcore, 2gb ram. yeah. it's "faster".
well. it's been a long while hasn't it? not much has changed. my back still hurts (surprise! surprise!) did i post that my knee kerploded like mid december. since i pretty much only row and jog, kinda sucked for me. couldn't really do anything all winter break since i was limping around. my hair's getting ridiculously long since it's cold out so i can't cut it myself and i'm too lazy to go to a barber. that sounds quite 1950's. i can't go and get my hair cut. is that any better? not really.
that's pretty much all that's new.
movies have been disappointing lately. haven't even downloaded any good ones recently. well scratch that, ghost town was pretty funny, and traitor was pretty good. i don't know why but i got a hankering to watch blast from the past. it's pretty funny too. and i realized that alicia silverstone is *not* a very good actress. it sounds like she's reading lines or something i dunno. maybe that's how her character was supposed to be.
