Now we wait.

Well, the husband had a second treatment for the pain he's been having. Years ago he hurt his back and now he's having problems with a nerve getting pinched. He had a treatment a month ago and it didn't work, so he went back this week to get another version of the treatment, this one a little riskier. Basically, they knocked him out, stuck a needle in his spine and gave the nerve a shot of steroids to reduce the inflammation. He had this done once before and it relieved the pain for pretty much a year. We're hoping this last shot works the same way. Otherwise he's going to have to have surgery. They'll slice him open and enlarge the area in his disk that the nerve goes through, as well as cutting back some calcium deposits that are pressing on the nerve.

I'm a little scared to have him go through surgery. Even the shot he just got had a certain risk of hurting the nerve and causing paralysis. The husband, however, is so tired of being in such pain all the time that he is more than ready to get cut up if it will stop the pain. He doesn't care about the risks anymore. He just wants to stop hurting.

It will take a couple of weeks before we have a firm grip on how successful this treatment was. I'll be holding my breath until then.