2009 March | Haze Grey & Underway

BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH!

Ok folks… time for a catch up. Things out here have gotten pretty damn busy and I have been running up and down this ship like a mad man. Over the past 3 months I have been busier than a one legged man at an ass kicking contest.

Now … things are settling. We are in the double digits to the day we will be home and that is a good thing.

Today.. is my birthday. 36 years upon this rock hurtling through space has come and gone and currently I am feeling every single one of those years.

For the past two weeks I have been hobbling around the ship, the victim of a condition called sciatica. Basically what it means is I have some bad disc’s in my back that are pinching and impinging on the trunk of nerves that go down my right leg (the sciatic nerve). This causes numerous things to happen, most of them painful. Due to the nerve pinching it is firing messages off to my muscles to contract or retract at high speed. This causes what I call “A monkey fist of angry pain” right in the deep center of my right ass cheek, thigh, and calf. Currently I am also unable to feel any of the toes on my right foot nor can I move them in an upward fashion. I can curl my toes, but not raise them up… they just sit there and look at me. I have been to medical about 3 or 4 times and they have given me plenty of the Navy’s wonder vitamin M® ( Motrin), and some Ultram, and some Pamalor. These really don’t seem to be helping as it still hurts like a sonofabeach when I stand, sit, lay down, or think of doing any of those activities. Due to the lack of facilities onboard they are pretty helpless to do anything and say that I have to wait it out until we get home so that I can get an MRI done. WHEEEE! We shall see what happens after that. Until that time I will have to hobble around the best that I can.

On the homefront Mrs. Jaybob is doing better. Her drug regimen seems to be working for her, although it seems to sap her energy some times. This is one of the side effects of the Rebif that she is taking.

I have also found out that unfortunately my brother and his family will be moving out of the area due to his wife having to PCS out. This makes me a bit upset. My brother and his family have been a never ending source of support and the much needed sense of “Family” that has been missing from our day to day lives for the last 17 or so years. It was so nice to have family a mere mile away that we could visit, play cards, play with the niece and nephew… They were there for Mrs. Jaybob while she went through some of her issues with the MS since I have been gone on deployment… I will truly miss them being so close.