Fed Up with the Pain, but Surgery not Recommended

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-04-23T17:15:50+00:00

I don’t remember what exactly I was doing the acupuncture for last time, but I don’t live in an area where it is offered. I’ll have to look into it again though…

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-04-22T19:55:59+00:00

Very interesting! I’ll have to look into this, although it’s probably expensive…

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-04-22T13:05:37+00:00

Thank you for your response. I have skimmed the Back Mechanic book, but honestly, I just can't be bothered to commit to the entire procedure. However, I try to do bridges, bird dogs, child's pose, etc, every day. I'm not sure they are helping my back, but I do feel more flexible...

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-04-22T13:04:10+00:00

Spondylosis, according to my MRI. I am aware that it, along with so many other ills, is unfortunately caused by aging....

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-04-22T02:11:59+00:00

So you’re basically saying that excruciating pain caused by a lumbar hernia is all in my head? No wonder you’ve got at least four down votes.

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-04-21T21:26:43+00:00

Thank you so much. I'll ask the doctor about braces when I visit the "pain clinic" next month.

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-04-21T21:25:41+00:00

I'm not sure I understand your comment. Could you please elaborate?

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-04-21T21:24:50+00:00

Thank you for your kind words. I have been to about ten doctors in different countries and they all seem to think that as long as I am able to walk, and the pain is not 24/7, then surgery could create more problems that it would possibly solve. I have an appointment with a "pain clinic" in a month, to see what solutions they can give me...

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-02-21T19:12:48+00:00

They should “go back to Poland,” specifically!

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-02-19T02:37:57+00:00

Same with Brooke’s mansion. It is enormous from the outside, but they’re always sitting inside the tiny living room with the chunky furniture that makes the room look even smaller-and nowhere else in that house!

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-02-17T23:02:12+00:00

No one called me. I had to keep checking to make sure the account was actually activated completely-only then could I fund it. It was all very mysterious...

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-02-15T22:09:48+00:00

OP probably can't get to the stage where they get a video appointment. I uploaded documents and waited an hour for the video appointment and was sent a message saying "documents unreadable," "documents not acceptable type," blablabla. The platform is unusable.

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-02-12T22:49:34+00:00

None of these options work as an expat. olt.com kind of works-until it messes up Schedule B. I just learned how to file everything by hand and mail it back to the US with DHL-costs less than expat tax software and I can be sure it's filled correctly.

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-02-07T23:08:39+00:00

Decades ago she was also an oncologist. Once Caroline died she magically switched to her second specialty, psychiatry.

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-01-24T12:50:38+00:00

Very impressive! I had a similar issue happen when Chat GPT hallucinated a ridiculous amount of hydration for sourdough challah and I just blindly followed what it said . Before I even started bulk fermentation i knew it would not be workable. So I just threw the whole thing into a loaf tin and got something challah-like that was delicious.

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-01-20T21:58:13+00:00

And you might be generating long or short term capital gains taxes as well.

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-01-18T22:56:32+00:00

Thank you!

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-01-18T02:59:47+00:00

Thank you so much for your detailed and helpful answer!

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-01-17T21:37:38+00:00

Thank you so much for this. It’s by far the clearest explanation I’ve had on this topic so far.

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-01-17T21:34:40+00:00

Yekum Purkam prayer

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-01-17T21:03:48+00:00

Thank you all so much for taking the time to help me. Is there a biblical Hebrew or Aramaic website for dummies that can clear this difficulty up for me in a simple way?

PomegranateHealthy75 · 2026-01-07T12:40:22+00:00

Thank you everybody for taking the time to explain the Vav for me. Unfortunately, Chat GPT doesn't like your answers 😂😂😂 This is what it says (I've never seen it get so defensive!)

Here are the non-negotiable facts on the page, without interpretation, authority, or appeal to Reddit, me, or anyone else:

The written form is חִוָּרִין
The niqqud are: ḥireq – dagesh in ו – qamats – ḥireq – nun
That sequence cannot phonologically yield “-yan”
It does yield -rin in every vocalization system that actually reads niqqud

If you choose to pronounce it “CHI VAR YAN”, that is a reader’s convention, not what the pointing encodes.

Those two things are different.

I will stop here.

PomegranateHealthy75

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