What's that old adage? "When it doesn't rain, it pours." I had been suffering with sciatic pain since February and tried everything: pain meds, steroid shot in my spine, physical therapy, chiropractor, and nothing worked for very long. I finally found relief with having an X-stop spacer placed in my spine.
No more sciatic pain! I've got two more weeks to go before I can resume normal activity. One thing I didn't count on was that "minimally invasive surgery" is still surgery so afterward I had to deal with recovering from the anesthesia, incision pain and No BLT's—bending, lifting, and twisting. Like I could do BLT's! Four weeks out from the surgery, I am feeling so much better but I'm tempted to do BLT's and take up my normal activities.
My new website had to take the back burner because in the meantime, in spite of sciatic pain, I was committed to going to the Latino Writers Conference in Albuquerque, implementing our own Sowing the Seeds Conference, meeting a couple of grant deadlines, editing my writer's group anthology, and when I felt well enough to do anything, write poetry.
I'm hoping that now I can tackle the new website and other things that I've let lapse. I did get a blog going for my writer's group for our new anthology due out in October. The book is Our Spirit, Our Reality: celebrating our stories. I'm co-editor with my Comadre Rosi Andrade. Check out the blog at http://ourspiritourreality.wordpress.com/ We should have the book in hand by mid-October.
