My Sister Broke her Back

My sister is my dentist.

And I was on my way to have her veneer my dead-nerved and discolored left front tooth. Only about 30 seconds from home, I was checking a cell phone message from her office, saying to give Sandi (my sister) a call on her cell. She answered and in a woozy voice said, "I broke my back." I said "Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?!". How often do you hear of someone you know breaking their back? It sounds crazy.

She was riding a dunebuggy and hit a hard bump, and on landing felt that something had gotten out of whack. I instantly thought of paralysis, but she can luckily move everything and was even painfull walking around and working for two days! Thinking it was a simple thing, she went to a chiropractor, who told her that she had a misaligned disc or something like that AND THEN PROCEEDED TO ADJUST HER BACK!! When she went to the doctor the next day (I think) and got a cat-scan, the doctor told her that she had a broken back and that the chiropractor was of course an idiot to do anything to her, and that she could have been paralyzed by the "adjustment"! The doctor put her in a back brace and sent her off with some pain medicine.

The cat-scan or xray (I forget which) revealed that, as Sandi said, "It looks like someone took a hammer and cracked one of my vertebrae". I guess that there's all kinds of fragmentation going on. She was waiting to get an appointment with her real doctor, who is an orthopedic specialist, and when I last talked to her, he was finally on the phone calling her.

Anyway, the discomfort finally got too much for her to work another day, so my long-awaited tooth veneering is on hold.