Doing Okay

There hasn't been much to blog about lately. My pain levels and frequency of pain seems to have plateaued, for a while anyways. It seems like I'm just about where I'm going to be. That's not a bad place. Not perfect, but certainly not as bad as I first feared. I seem to always have little twinges down in my inguinal area, both the left and right. If I sit for too long, the pain is much more severe. If I walk, things tend to improve.

I've walked twice now on the treadmill, I even stretched out a bit afterwards last night. Today I feel decent. As long as I don't sit too long, I do okay. It's not a perfect situation, but one I can live with. I still wish I hadn't had the vasectomy. That will never change. I will still try to talk people out of having a vasectomy. That will never change.

So here's my latest pitch to whomever reads this blog. Keep your plumbing the way God intended it. Fix your dog, don't fix yourself. There are so many nerves down there, it is hard for the doc not to hit one or damage one. Even if he doesn't, the resultant scar tissue could be enough to provide years of pain. Not to mention the idea of congestion. I was a high volume sperm producer. That means when I had my vasectomy, my body still produced a ton of sperm, which congested and overwhelmed my epididymous (the holding chamber for sperm). My body then attacked the leaking sperm and caused me to have what amounted to a third testicle. Yes, that hurt too. Read my vasectomy story for all the details.

Well, that's it. I'll only post on here when I've got something to record that's new or perhaps on various milestones that I reach or when God does something in my life to help me progress in some way. This is afterall, my online vasectomy journal. That means I can pretty much blog about whatever I want. So I hope you've enjoyed reading my journal entries. I hope you don't have a vasectomy. If you did, then I hope you don't have to go through all this.

I may ask people on the forum if I can put some of their story on here, so you will know this condition isn't just isolated to myself. So I guess that's it. Take care and God bless.

I'm Having Pain in My Groin In the Morning

As I got out of the shower this morning, I had an observation about this last week. When I first get up and until I get dressed, my right inguinal area has a lot of referred pain - up into my abdomen and down into my scrotum. Then, I get dressed, eat breakfast and I suddenly notice the referred pain is gone.

It's like having an aching back, of which I also have. Sometimes it just hurts to get out of bed. Well, I think my nerve pain is developing a similar pattern, at least this week anyway. I still have some referred pain on the right side throughout the day, kind of off and on. Yesterday, I actually had one of those "normal" days, where I didn't notice my groin or scrotum at all, until I thought about it before bed.

My hope is that I'll have one of those moments after about 2 weeks of no pain. Like, "wow, it's been two weeks since I even thought about vasectomies, or nerve pain or blogging about vasectomies and nerve pain.

Speaking of blogging, I think I'll be blogging a little less often. I know this is supposed to be an online daily journal, but there is less to blog about these days...Thank God! Plus, doing homeschool with the kids is becoming a full time vocation and there just isn't a lot of time to get on the computer. I'd rather spend time with the kids, you know!

But, I'll try to blog at least twice a week so I can keep a somewhat acurate journal of my pains and progress. My one year anniversary from my vasectomy reversal which caused all this mess is coming up in December. Wouldn't it be great if the Lord saw to it that I was completely pain free by then? That would be just terrific. But, in his time and according to his purposes.

Who knows, maybe he wants me to keep getting the message out to not have vasectomies, so therefore, I'll keep having pain and thus, keep blogging frequently. Or maybe he's using me to show other people how he can help them through pain, like he's helped me. It's hard to tell when you're just a mere mortal. His ways are certainly not our ways and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts. Humm...nothing truer could be said, huh?

So now we're about to head off to church where I get to worship with other believers. It's nice to know that Jesus is my Lord. That he would suffer all that stuff, just for me. And because he suffered, he knows what I'm going through. Praise be to God! Have a blessed day and trust our Lord Jesus, I know you won't be disappointed.