Mom's Back

My mom has been having trouble with back pain for the last couple of months. It gets worse and it gets better, but it doesn't go away. She saw her doctor about it 6 weeks ago and on that day it was "better" so the hope was that the trend would continue. Of course 2 days later it was bad again.

A couple weeks ago we went back to her doctor and again on that day it seemed to be getting better. The doctor decided to prescribe physical therapy and said to come back if it gets worse or isn't getting better. It took one week to get the referral paperwork to PT and another week to make the appointment which is tomorrow. The last couple times I've talked to her she said her back was doing pretty well. But today when I called her she said she has been "crippled up" with it for the last couple days. The pain keeps moving from one spot to another and she wasn't even able to go to church today because of the pain.

Before this whole thing started a couple months ago Mom could walk around her house without her cane, only needing it when she went outside. Since the back pain started she has had to use the cane even inside. And now she is using both her cane and walker.

I think that while I'm in Olympia tomorrow for her PT appointment I will also have to call her doctor and make another appointment with him. He said if it got worse he could give her a shot (perhaps cortisone?) which might help. I think it's time.