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I have severe lower lumbar DDD with facet arthropathy. I agree with you on fusion. He was referring to hip replacement and not sure what Ortho was going to do about the back, he didn’t know if anything could be done. In fact I was thinking maybe there’s some restructuring of something they could do with my hip instead of replacing it lol. I’m going to start taking supplements including SNG boron and his wife reminded me of supplements that helped to pain so I can avoid the alternatives. I’ve seen too many times where that leads as they slowly develope tolerance along with the body thinking it no longer needs to make its own pain management, they don’t understand and must be told amongst certain organ damage they take to much they’re gonna stop breathing and gonna die in their sleep. I did take a low dose ibuprofen 200 mg the other day cuz I sprained my foot cuz I bent my knee to get down some stairs that was compensating but only locking in so I could walk cuz CMT causes severe lower leg neuropathy so bad mixture. Only thing left in between is my knees lol

Silver moving up just shy of $39 this am with gold flat. The dollar and rates are flat as well. Oil down 1/2%. Crypto up 1-2%. SM flat.

I expect volume to continue to dry up today and tomorrow across all markets. We’ll see how pm shares handle the algo selling. Right now, they are firm.

Eco data is GDP today. Could shuffle things around a bit if they come in out of whack either side of the forecasts.

Hasn’t been a bad week considering it’s the end of the month, hopefully it stays that way.

Before you get back surgery, let me know what you’re having done. I would never recommend getting fused. At least never as the first option.

I would exhaust every other avenue first, they have less invasive ways to create space between your vertebrae than to fuse them, if that’s your problem.

Alex – thanks for that. I think I’ll try the raw chicken with my dog. His digestive system is a mess.

and feeds only raw chicken to them . One required surgery . The lady vet had an issue with feeding raw chicken , until noticing the dog had healed in days , not weeks . Now the vet is a raw meat advocate .

I am told that when a pack makes a kill , the pack holds back until the lead dog/wolf gets to eat first , and invariably goes for organ meat…liver . I was dog-sitting last year while a good friend was hospitalized . I am in the habit of going to a local restaurant on Tuesdays when they have a liver and onions special . I asked the server to have the kitchen set aside about a quarter of my order raw and cut up for the dog. When I put a piece in the dog’s dish , she took it out an dropped it on the kitchen floor . After eating her usual kibbles , her inquisitiveness took over and tasted it tentatively . When she had finished , I dropped another piece in her dish and she virtually inhaled it . She is very intelligent and knew the little container was in the fridge , so every time I got near it , she would come running , begging for more raw beef liver . The owner still goes with kibbles , etc. but when I visit , the dog comes running to greet me , hoping for more of ‘the good stuff’ .

U just reminded me, my Mom used to make food for her cats, they all did pretty well.

Tks

When AMTRAK first started, railroads
threw all their ‘old junk’ at them to use.
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A bad hip can mess up your back and knees from trying to avoid the hip pain.  I was afraid I was going to lose my knees to arthritis as well as the hip.  Since I got the hip replaced my knees have straightened out with ‘normal’ walking now and no longer pain me.  My back has always been ‘iffy’ but I have learned to take care of it.

Get your hip done, ASAP!  Some minor stretching muscles for preparation, but it is a major muscle insult.  Recovery is three types of pain:  Damaged bone, damaged nerves, and damaged muscles.  I got celecoxib (Celebrex) for the bone pain.  Gabapentin for the nerve pain.  Those two were eased in about two weeks post-Op.  Muscles got tylenol and icing packs for weeks.  Major stretching bruising, and some muscle tearing that takes 10 weeks to fully mend with rehab work.  But it is absolutely worth it!!    My brother took a video of me just walking… he said he had not seen me walk straight like that in three or more years!

My ‘new’ leg is about 1 cm longer now… just enough to be annoying with a ‘step up’ feel and my hips are not level.  I compensating by gluing another sole onto my everyday slippers here in Hawaii.  Found some ‘Lift’ inserts for my shoes that are rarely worn here.  Ortho doc was impressed with my homebrew slipper sole, and it works perfectly!  I’ve walked a mile with it and no back pain.