Hello everyone   I am soooooo happy I got my 2 back issues of TOS magazine (spring 04 & winter 06) This is my 1st time with TOS magazine & I AM IN LOE!!!! My sis n' law, told me how she "couldn't live with out TOS magazine" & told me just how good it is. So since I trust her judgment... I got a subscription & 2 back issues that sounded very interesting. WOW is all I got to say!
I am only on the 2nd artical in the Spring 04 mag. I didn't want to stop reading.. but wanted to check in before I get toooooo "addicted" to reading every page!!!! ! I WISH THIS WAS A MONTHLY MAGAZINE!!!! That would be great! I am just thankful that this is such a great, Christian centered, family oriented, homeschooling magazine!!!!!!  What is also sooo nice is that there are NOT any of the worldly, trendy/suggestive advertisments!!!  ~IT IS soooooo sweeeeet!~ It's nice to know that our girls can pick it up & flip through it or read it from front to back without me having to monitor every page!!!
Sooo.... I will probably be lost in reading for the next few days  while I am resting up my back. 
YEA,...ABOUT MY BACK.....I decided that I CAN NOT wait another 2 weeks to see a chiropractor!!!!!!!! (spelling?).

I can not take anymore pain!!! After having this for 3 weeks I think my "tolerance level" is about to 0.  
My sweet hubby has been working on rubbing the huge knot of muscles out of the lower left side of my back for almost 2 weeks! Well, by monday morning my muscles felt pretty good in that area... but the middle of my back (spine) still felt weird & was still hurting. 

Well......Yesterday, I was driving home from work, in my hubby's big ol' bouncy truck,   & hit a typical, unavoidable, Pennsylvania pothole.   ....  I got this jolt of pain that about sent me through the roof! It hurt so bad I felt like biting the steering wheel! (seriously)  Well..My knot was back & was bigger than before, I got home & hurt sooo bad I felt like crying! I couldn't walk too good & couldn't get comfy sitting, laying down, standing! To top it all off I couldn't get to sleep till' sometime after 2am & had to get up at 6:30 for work!... I feel the same if not worse than what I was 3 weeks ago!!!! If I didn't know better I'd think I was broken  !  I had the hubby walk his hands up my spine to see if he felt anything odd ... & he got 1/4 way up my back & it felt like a knife stabbed me in my back & he even said something felt strange there & pushed on it a little..  WOW! THE PAIN!!!! 

So my brother & sis n' law suggested their chiropractor, that they trust & swear by!    So today I got home & made an appointment. I go in tomorrow morning....So I will update ya'll on how this all goes. I have never been to a chiropractor so this all new to me! It is sorta scary, & hopefully not painful experience!
If you all could say a prayer for me about this..I would greatly appreciate it.

I have had ALOT of muscle problems & muscle strains & tears in my back 
But I have NEVER had any sort of SPINE problems or injuries... so I am very nervous & anxious.

Well I will sign off for today..

THANK YOU ALL for reading my ramblings & rantings

 GOD BLESS

Shannon