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[harry strasil]

FWIW, The Saw Bench Tutoral as well as the Apprentice Journal will have to be put on hold for awhile as the back injury I got in January has flared up and I am afraid to attempt the basement stairs at this time with partially numb legs and setting at the puter for any length of time is painful.

I have another appointment for tomorrow Friday the 11th at the Pain Center in Kansas City, Mo. to see what can be done for the 5 bulging discs in my lower back.

I haven't been able to work since January and its driving me nuts. I have read about 40 or 50 books and the tutoral and the Journal have been my way of keeping my sanity.

I apologize for the interuption of the two threads.

Respectfully

Jr. Strasil

[Roy Wall]

Hang in there Harry!! Our best wishes for a long term solution to your back pain.....may there be relief in sight!

Be careful!!

[Chris Barton]

Hi Harry,

First of all, I want to say how much we all will miss your tutorial but, your health comes first. You are one of the most talented and articulate woodworkers I have ever met. I have so enjoyed your posts and will continue to enjoy them once you are feeling better. Take care of your back and think of great stories to tell us and we will all be anxiously waiting.

Chris

[Pam Niedermayer]

I got a slipped disk in December from moving piles of construction materials for a day. It happened because I'd been sitting in a car on a long roadtrip, not walking so much, my back had become very weak but I didn't know it. I truly suffered for a couple of months, when the back specialist recommended the MacKenzie exercises. I did them and within a week I was mobile again, within a couple of months I was lifting again. They're like magic, much better than back surgery and the like.

Pam

[Doug Littlejohn]

Harry, I can really sympathize with your pain. I have fallen twice and compressed everything in the L and T series and broken T1 and L1 each in half, first time in my teens and then in my twenties.

After 25 years of increasing pain, I had to enter the area of 'pain management'. OVer the next 10 years, my need for medication increased until I was on Oxycontin and Morphine in very high doses all day (and night) to the point I was becomming a zombie and close to losing my job.

Then I got an implanted 'morphine pump' (Intrathecal Pain Pump) that has restored a good life to me. The pump dispenses much smaller doses (about 1/50th as much) straight into my spinal column. Boy what a difference. My pain has gone from normally being in the 6-9 range all day to the 1-3 range for most days for 3 years now.

I pray you find relief that will give you some quality of life back and the most useful piece of advice I can give is to not accept anything less than what is needed to relieve your pain. You may have to work your way through several doctors, but keep the faith, there can be a pleasant end to the road you are on.

I must say again how much I have enjoyed and admired your stories, teachings and common sense approach to WW'ing and I look forward to building the the saw bench and I have the 'portable' bench in process.

Thank you.
Sherwood

[Ron Jones near Indy]

Hope you heal quickly and get back to the things you miss.

[Ian Gillis]

Harry

Sorry to hear that you're laid up and not able to do the things you love. I wish you a speedy and complete recovery.


IG

[Gary Herrmann]

Rest your back Harry, its nothing to mess around with. I was in a car accident when I was 19 and broke a couple vertebrae. Pain and numbness is your body's way of telling you to take a break.

Hope you feel better soon.

[Mike Henderson]

I hope you're better soon, Harry. We've all enjoyed your postings and am looking forward to you resuming soon.

Good luck.

Mike

[jonathan snyder]

Harry,

I hope you back gets better soon. I always enjoy reading your posts.

Jonathan

[Mark Rios]

Just take care Harry, ol' buddy. We'll all be waiting for you to come back in your own time.

[tod evans]

heal quickly jr! lots of us are waiting on the edge of our chairs tod

[Stu Ablett in Tokyo Japan]

I very much enjoy your posts, the the teaching threads are so great.

I'll be waiting for you to get better, but, I know it will be worth the wait.

Get well soon!

Cheers!

[Jim Becker]

'Hope you feel better soon, Harry!

[Maurice Metzger]

Jr, I hope you feel better soon. I'll try and think up some good books for you to read in the meantime.

Maurice