So the back is getting a bit better

I went to the doc last Thursday morning for what was supposed to be an MRI, but after a clinical exam the back was showing some improvement (I didn't collapse this time when I got on my tippy toes lol) so he figured no MRI was necessary. He wants to see me again in 3 weeks, if improvement is continuing then fine, otherwise he wants to explore an epidural. Hell no to that, but I didn't bother bringing it up since I am determined my back will still be improving in 3 weeks. I'm not real big on needles, let alone needles stuck into my spine.

He said what we want to see is the swelling to go down so the white blood cells can get into the stuff thats herniated from the center of the disc(s) and basically suck the juice out of it, shrivel it like a raisin, which in turn will allow it to quit pressing against the nerves and in short heal me. So thats what we want. So basically good news on that front.

Not so good news with my ex wife though. She's still bound and determined, for reasons unknown, to be an evil bitch. Quick backstory: she left me. She left me for someone else, got married 6 weeks after our divorce was final. You would think she wouldn't be such a bitch and yet she is 12 years later. Yes, I said 12 years. The way she acts you would think its been 12 minutes.

2 weekends ago she brought my son up to visit me (I pick him up on my weekends, its a 7 hour round trip) and I paid her $40 for gas. She told me then she couldn't do that every weekend, maybe once or twice a month. Thats fine for the time being. But now she's refusing to do it anymore. According to our mediation agreement from 2000 (mediation that was necessary because of her exploiting every bit of gray area in the original custody agreement) I get makeup weekends when there is sickness involved in missing weekends. This counts as an illness, my being unable to drive. She is outright refusing to give me those makeup weekends. When I tell her I will take her to court, she mocks me and asks me how, since I don't have the money to do that. Fortunately she does this in emails, so I have written proof of her being a piece of shit.

So in short here, I have absolutely no idea when I'll be able to see my son again. I cannot make the drive right now. To keep my back from hurting I have to stay on the meds, and while I will drive to work and so forth on them...I am not undertaking a 7 hour excursion while medded up, half of that with my son in the car. Far too dangerous. The alternative that was brought up was him taking a train from Champaign to Homewood. I can't quite make that long of a drive yet, to Homewood from Woodridge, but I think the way things are improving I can do it soon. Only problem is now she's saying she won't drive him to Champaign to get on the train. From Danville to Champaign is half as long a drive as it is from Woodridge to Hometown.

Anyway, she's a piece of shit. If any 2o2p folk out there are family court lawyers that are willing to work cheap, please PM me. :D