I will try to get back to the plane by thanksgiving day.

I did work on the parallelogram jig . I cut new arms yesterday and trued a face on each to be tottaly straight. I drilled them today. Lots and lots of holes. !/2" spacing on all of them for lots of adjustment range. I made them out of 1/4" ply so now I need shorter bolts to assemble it and check if I got right this time.

Mostly other things have been going on.

I am wrapping up a test trial of a SCS (Spinal Chord Stimulator).


I have been having bad lower back pain and really bad nerve pain (neuropathy) pain in my legs and feet. I have six bad disk. Three in the neck and 3 in the lower back. The ones in the neck are in worse shape but it is the back that has been hurting so much.
Nothing gave me any relief. The Dr tried deadening the nerves. That had no effect whatsoever. So SCS (Spinal Chord Stimulator) trial was recommended.


The leads were temporarily implanted Thursday morning. Rather painful as I was fully awake with just a loco. The leads exit my back and are taped. The Neurostimulator is hung from a velcro strap at my side. It is controlled by a remote control.
Holy crap was I sore Thursday and Friday. But Thursday was just a real bad day. Man was I miserable. This was from having the leads put in though.


But there was NO NERVE PAIN, at all. Friday I was still sore and hurting from the procedure, but not as bad. I had very little nerve pain and moderate back pain.


Then Saturday we had to go to the store. Got a flat tire on the way. No choice but to change it. I had the SCS turned off while driving and changing the tire. Only a little PT cruiser, but still admittedly beyond the 5 lbs limit I am supposed to observe. Well by the time I got the doughnut on I was in really bad pain. Eye ball crossing pain. So the wife made get back in the car and kick my seat back (she does not drive). I turned the SCS on and pushed the stimulation level up pretty good. 5 minutes later I was able to walk around the store.
What a miracle this thing is. I would normally have been laying in my lazy boy chair for hours, and would not have able to do anything the rest of the day, or even rest of the weekend.


My wife just told she has her husband back. I am doing things again and easier to live with.


Tomorrow the test is over, the temp leads will come out. And I will be without this wonderful device till They permanently install one under the skin. CAN'T WAIT.


The tech rep from Boston Scientific has contacted me daily to see how I am doing and verbally walked me through a change in the units parameters.


I NOW HAVE HOPE, LOTS OF HOPE.


KEN