Personal Narrative: Back Pain

Back pain, the pain that made three years of my life miserable, the same pain that caused me to become an outcast. Four years ago I made an appointment with my physician for some back pain I was having, the pain was not excruciating at the time, but it was still pretty agonizing, much like the burdens Christian was carrying. My doctor could only notice that my hips were unaligned, so he sent me in for several X-rays, my doctor was kind of like Evangelist. He pointed me in the right direction. He received my X-rays and noticed that I had a small curve in my back, fifteen degrees to be exact, this degree classifies as scoliosis, I felt like I was stuck in the Slough of Despond. I was put on restrictions and could barely run without breaking my doctor’s rules. My physician then sent me to an orthopedic surgeon; he explained to me that my curvature was not severe enough for surgery, so I was sent to a chiropractor, hoping he would rehabilitate my back, this was like going to the Interpreters house, the chiropractor was going to fix my back and I would be able to everything again! However, I was wrong.
I went to the chiropractor for six months and did electrical stimulation therapy on my back, then I went back to my orthopedic surgeon and realized my spine was now curved seventeen degrees, instead of fifteen, I was devastated, I guess you could say I was in the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
To another doctor I went, back and forth, I went to several different physicians and chiropractors trying to figure out why my back was curved. Finally, I reached Dr. Timberlake; he did several X-rays and noticed tiny, hairline fractures in my L1 and L2, which are vertebras in my lower spine, the lumbar region. He sent me to physical therapy, where I would have to do several exercises and therapy on my back several times a week, I was beginning to think that my back would never heal; wouldn’t you say I was in the Doubting
Castle?
Well I finished my six weeks at therapy and went back for my check up, we did X-rays and found out that another one of my vertebrae’s was fractured, my L3. I followed all the rules, and did everything right. I didn’t know why this was happening to me, I was extremely upset. I had to start all over, different therapist, new medicines, new back exercises; I was basically climbing the Hill Difficulty. I was running out of options, I had nowhere to go, nothing or nobody was helping me, until my doctor decided to do an ultrasound, he wanted to see if I had any internal injuries. He found something he would have never thought of, an ovarian cyst, three times the size of my right ovary. Surprising right?
A cyst is a sac of liquid, it was sitting directly on my right ovary, causing severe problems to my back and health. I finally figured out why my back pain and fractures would not go away. I was put on a specific medicine to try and shrink my cyst, however, my cyst was not reducing in size at all. I just wanted to reach the point where I could do anything I wanted, where I could be happy, I wanted to be in the Celestial City. And I finally reached that point, after four different medications, my cyst started shrinking. Week by week I went back to my doctor and my cyst was shrinking and disappearing. I was extremely excited and finally felt happy again. One year ago, my cyst finally completely disappeared. It was like a miracle happened, I reached the Celestial City.