I got my degree!! Life is good! It was not easy but I did it. I was sore a lot, that was probably the hardest thing to deal with. Trying to focus and write papers when your are not feeling well sucks. But you have to do it. I don't even know where to begin. I met some new best friends. These girls gave me so much inspiration to keep going. I have an amazing mentor who I believe inspired me as well. He has back issues too. I had him as a professor a couple of different times and he was just awesome. I did use my tens unit a couple of times lots of heat and a ton of tiger balm. I call the tiger balm patches my back crack because my back loves it. I also took advantage of the campus gym a lot. My doctor always wants me in PT. But I just didn't have time to leave campus or anything so I used the free gym at school to get as much in as I could on my own. OK it wasn't really free I paid for it my tuition....so it just saved me from generating another bill. Anyway I finally am starting to feel confident in self management. I think forcing myself to do these things really helped instead of leaning on my doctor. I love my doctor but he is super expensive. I think now that school is done I am going to focus on dieting. Till next time ya'll
Peace
~college graduate~
