Turns out that all along the Doc planned a "series" (just 2, thankfully) of epidural spinal injections for my L4-L5 disk. Number 2 occurred yesterday.
Problem with a procedure that produced pain last time is that you anticipate the pain the second time, which is almost worse that the experience itself. This time was quite a bit different. There was one area she (Dr. Yaniv) hit that cause some pain, but not shooting all down the leg like last time.
Another difference was almost immediate improvement in the pain in my hip and lack of pain in the back when bending over. Now starts physical therapy (tomorrow) to try to whip ol' Mr. L4-L5 back into shape.
Stay tuned.
BTW, just 10 days until departure for Kazakhstan!
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