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Winter 2018 Winter 2018 BY DR JEFFREY SCALLON SCALLON JSCALLON@GMAIL COM
All this happened when my my my eldest son was just One morning while in in in in in in in in in the the the gym doing 3 weeks old I I I I I I had lost my my my my my my my job my my my my my my my apartment and and and wife’s entire pregnancy I I dreamt and fantasized a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a strange burning sensation in in in in in my my lower about all all of the the wonderful things that that I I I I I would do with my budding family and the the last thing thing that that that I I I back The rational part of me insisted that that that would would have ever imagined was that that that I would would be I I cease the the the activity immediately however dragging them around from specialist specialist to to to specialist specialist the the the the the irrational and and more more macho part of my for months to to to to physical therapy and and even to to to to a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a more more long distance trip that we made to to to the the Mayo clinic in in mind overruled that instinct and I continued Rochester one arm dumbbell rows with far more all of my my my my studies came to a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a screeching halt For my my my my weight than what I I typically use I I felt on although I was in in great pain My form was poor so as as I jerked the dumbbell up for every rep the burning sensation began
to spread I did complete the exercise but that was the last time that I touched a a a a dumbbell I I decided to to seek the the attention of a a a a a a a a a medical doc- tor tor and and learned that I I had torn the the last intervertebral disc wide a a a a a a a a a a full 120 degrees and and my pelvic ligaments were so stretched out that they no longer provided the the the support necessary to to hold my pelvis together which caused excruciating pain Because of this in in in 58 NGA NATURAL mag NGA NATURAL mag