I’m back (pardon the pun) from my back surgery, I would have written earlier but the massive amounts of drugs prevented coherent thought, much less being able to write.

I’m three weeks out from the surgery, my back is killing me. I had my two week check up last week and the ride down and back nearly did me in. The doctor says everything looks great.

Something interesting happened during the check up – the doctor told me to take more drugs than I was – in fact to double the amount, I’ve never had that happen before, usually they tell you to take different drugs or fewer drugs, not more.

I don’t like drugs or rather I don’t like how I enjoy them so much that I avoid them as much as I can, plus I have a high tolerance of pain. So I wasn’t taking as much as he wanted, he told me I would recover faster by letting the drugs calm my back down and keep me more or less more sedated – oh boy!