Riding days are over for awhile

While on my trip I developed a real bad pain in my left side that went down to my left foot. By the time I got home I could barley move my left toes. Went to the Doc's last week and he gave me some pain pills and some pills to reduce swelling. We'll had an MRI and just got the results back. Ruptured disk, great now gotta wait to see what there going to do. Down on L-5 and pushing into the main nerve. No wonder its been hurting so bad. Told me no work no riding, great. Self Employed so now no income and had to turn down 3 jobs yesterday. Oh well, life goes on. Just hope that surgery is not what they want to do.

The trip was still worth it and maybe that slip in the KOA pool did it:gah:

Yeah that sucks,

You going in for surgery?

I have to wait until Wednesday to even call the pain clinic at the hospital to see if I can get a shot of Cortisone. My doc went on vacation for two weeks so I have no idea. Once the pain clinic approves getting the Cortisone they say it could take up to six weeks before getting me in. I will be calling the main office if that happens, been to long now and the pain is even worse now.
One thing while riding those long miles I could get half way comfortable on the bike and with doubling up the Ibuprofen I bought it would knock it down for a while.
We were going to be another week on the trip going down to New Mexico and over to my Friends Vern's home in Arizona but I decided to cut it shorter to get back because of it. :rant::cussing:

Well you got to take care of the health.

Have you thought about taking on an apprentice
to do the dirty work, crawl under, into and out
of the tight spots so you can continue to work
and build the business, at the same time
doubling up the amount of homes you could
see, or, continue to see the ones you have now
or that come in...

I've trained other guys before and the problem with an apprentice you still have to go with em for awhile to teach them what to look for. Proper types of wood boring insects, carpenter ants and termites. What type of dry rot in the wood, is there water in the crawl or roof and where is it coming from. Really scary if you mis diagnose them, can lead to a huge law suit if not done correctly. I've been doing this business for a long time now and its hard to just trust someone else to be sure they see what you want them to see.
I'm going to call a couple of other inspectors I know to see if they can fill in for me for awhile.

that sucks..........thoughts and prayers to ya bud!!!!! heal quickly!!!!

I'll check into that, but first gotta get rid of the extreme pain.:cussing:

I would get another Doc , my sons back got real messed up like yours L 3-5 or so when the car ran him & his horse down , his doc told him straight up a cut job will just be a different pain - sent him the physical therapy twice a week & told him to swim when he could , HR now has a above ground pool

Also make sure your rehab assistants look good in bikinis in the pool
with ya, LOL