Yesterday morning, I had my first MRI scan of my life. It was probably the longest 30 mins of my life. As you know, I have been suffering from chronic back pain since I'd sprained it last October. Pilates helps but I am still unable to do anything very strenuous or high impact. So the 1.5 hour jet ski ride 2 weeks ago did it again. I went to the loo in the middle of the night and guess what? i felt something give way in my back again. This time thankfully was less severe than the last when I totally felt paralyzed. Hao-e was snoring away as usual, so I staggered to find my trusty bengay cream, smeared it all over my back, struggled back to bed and did Pilates warm up exercises. It was a long fretful night and I spent the rest of the weekend lying down with a heat pack plastered to my back. This time I decided to go to my GP since the sports medicine specialist I was seeing was a) very expensive; and b) didn't seem to help except prescribe physio appointments. I want
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