In the late afternoon, I went to see the chiropractor and had a dry needling session from him. When he saw my back area, he found out my shingle in the middle of my lower back. He told me the shingle was the main cause of sharp pain. He put the electricity through the dry needles for 25 minutes. It was so painful, but thanks to my daughter’s support that she was holding my one hand and rubbing my back gentry on the other hand, I could somewhat survive.  

About two hours after I came back home, the pain got become unbearable for me so that my body bounced up and down without my will. I got the extreme amount of sweat all over my body, as if I were in the midst of the heavy rain. I felt so scary that my body reacted about the intense pain like that.

I talked with my friend over the phone at night. I explained about my cancellation of the trip. She was thoughtful enough to understand that we won’t be able to see each other this month.

Since the intense sciatic pain started from October 9^th, I have been having a difficulty in urination and defecation. I normally go pee about 8 times a day, but since the injury, even though I went to the bathroom and felt the bladder was full, I could not pass through urination. Now I could go only twice a day or after 9 hours.

I noticed whenever my daughter sang a happy song for me standing next to me and rubbing my back gently, it became easy for me to pass through urination. This was the method when she was still a preschooler to encourage her to pass through urination.

As for the defecation, I have been suffering from constipation for 4 days since the injury day. I felt the sensation, but it was too painful for me to keep sitting down and focusing on it, it was impossible for me to go through.

I could not sleep well. My husband woke up in the early morning to support me. At 8 a.m., we made several phone calls to search for chiropractors and massage therapists, but nobody answered the phone because it was Saturday.

My pain was still intense. I knew the cost going to the ER would be outrageous, but I begged my husband to take me to the ER.

The ER doctor had some blood tests on me and found out I was extremely dehydrated. He ordered the nurse to give me an IV to hydrate and three shots of pain reliever.

With the pain reliever, I could sleep longer hours, but still the maximum was three hours straight.

Since our flight was rescheduled to today, we were still planning to get up early in the morning and head to the local airport leaving at 3 a.m. I was planning to get up at 2 a.m., but I could not sleep due to the intense pain. Around midnight, I was for sure that I should cancel today’s trip. I woke my husband up and asked to call the airplane company to reschedule our flights. 

I was glad that the worker picked up our call even it was around the midnight. I talked to the agent of my health condition and she was kind enough to help me to rescheduled the flight. I was not sure how long it would take me to fully recover, so I just rescheduled to one week from today.

All day long, I could not do anything including doing laundry, cooking, or cleaning. I needed my family’s support even when I needed to go to the bathroom.

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My husband suggested me to go see the chiropractor. The chiropractor’s treatment even made my pain worse. The chiropractor strongly suggested me to go see my primary care. I called the clinic but the receptionist coldheartedly told me they don’t accept an emergent patient on the same day.

Then my husband took me to the other clinic where they accept the urgent patients. The doctor gave me a pain reliever shot on my buttock cheek and prescribed some medications to deal with the pain. For some hours the pain did relieve, but at night the pain came back.   

My family and I left the house at 3 am for the local airport. While I was waiting for the first airplane, the pain in my right buttock was intense. But I never thought of cancelling the flight and going back home.

When the time got closer to just 20 minutes before the first airplane took off, there was an announcement that our first flight departure time was delayed by one hour due to the tropical rain of the arrival airport. Since I had only one hour to transit to the next international flight, I would not be able to make it to the next flight. I could not stand up from the intense pain, so I asked my daughter to wait in line at the gate counter to talk to the worker. The worker rescheduled our flight to the next day.

I called my husband and mentioned our situation. My husband just arrived at the house but he said he would come back to the airport to pick us up. While waiting for him, I checked the weather report of the destination. Weird enough, the weather over there was showed as sunny. I thought it was my family spirits to force our flight to delay to prevent me from taking the flight for some reason. For any reasons, I have to believe in my family spirits to save my life.

I was so excited because of our upcoming trip to Japan. I checked the content of our suitcases and carry on luggage. Everything looked fine. Except for the pain in my back. I purchased a variety of the over-the-counter pain relievers. I hope once I arrive at Japan, the back pain will be gone.

In the morning, I had the monthly maintenance for my biofeedback device provided by the IT technician of the manufacture. I am satisfied with her service and her kindness and politeness.

My husband took a day off from work for his bathroom repair. The maintenance person came and exchanged a whole set of the toilet ball and the tank.

In the evening, we tried our first kabocha harvest. It was delicious. The kabocha was the only one harvest in this season. Hopefully we will have more than one. I collected the seeds and dried for the next year.

In the early morning, I went to the chiropractor’s office again because of the intense pain around my back. I started worrying about the back pain, because the departure of the trip to Japan is coming up soon. Sadly, the chiropractor again could not fix the pain issue. The intense pain still stays in my back.

I saw the news that has announced Japan had the first female prime minister. I am glad with the news as I was hoping she would become the prime minister. I hope she would vigorously change lots of old bad habits the Japanese politics world has embraced.

In the late at night at 10 p.m., I attended the online gathering for the professional homeopath course. I enjoyed sharing the information with my fellow students and teachers.