Yay, yay, a hundred times yay. I can actually sit and work again. I can do things. Oh, the things I can do!

It's taken me a long time to think of a simple office chair as "medical equipment," but when you have a back injury, it really is. I like to think I can do without furniture large enough for my height (and weight), and I can keep that pretense up right until the point that the furniture stops working, and then so do I, because I can't stay in a comfortable working position for longer than 30-40 minutes at a time.

Then again, when I was diagnosed with this spondylolisthesis* at age 24, the physiatrist told me that I probably developed it from sitting in too-short chairs for most of my adult life, so I guess there's something to that.

* spon·dy·lo·lis·the·sis   

Pronunciation: spändllisthss
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): -es
Etymology: New Latin, from spondyl- + Greek olisthsis dislocation, from olisthanein to slip, fall -- more at SLIDE
: forward displacement of a lumbar vertebra and especially of the fifth lumbar vertebra on the sacrum producing pain by compression of nerve roots

"spondylolisthesis." Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (12 Jul. 2004). So there.