[Don't] Put your back into it.

Back in Andover for the weekend.  I was going to a friend's wedding this weekend, but instead I'm here.  My mom has had some back pain for about 10 days, and it got worse, and her doctor is a useless git, and now she's at Lawrence General, where the did a kyphoplasty.  Yes, rather than try anything less extreme than surgery, they decided to deal with mom's compressed spinal disks by fusing her T12 and L1 vertebrae together.

Looks like we need to arrange for some in-home care, and I need to get on the stick with the insurance company. 


I'm off to see her now.  Cross your fingers that this will improve things, folks.

EDIT: it turns out that Mom's problem was more serious than simple irritation of her discs, but rather a compression fraction of her lowest thoracic vertebra.  Thus, the spinal fusion was the correct decision.  Yes, this does mean we have also discovered that she has osteoporosis.