[parishht]

Thanks Willy, my regular job is not physical like police work,
engineers sit at a desk most of the time, it is what I like to do in my
spare time that is the problem.

MJ, thanks, this was not the first episode that made me question my doctor,
my mother died of kidney cancer 10 years ago, which moved
into her bone marrow, she was having arm pains and her doctor told her
it was bursitis. One night she got her arm caught in her covers
and broke it. Now I am always second guessing my doctor.

Thanks Reel, definately in the right direction.
It's not the monitor that is my issue, I always keep it elivated,
my problem is that I am a hunt and peck keyboard operator,
so I have to look down at the keyboard, but, the pain is going away
more and more each day, but again, it is not the pain that I am afraid of,
the doctor warned me that if I look down by moving my head,
I could break the titanium plate and have to go through the operation all over again.



One more thing guys, if you have to have bone graft instead of
the new inserts, ask for cadaver bone.
They used to use grafts from your hips and everyone warned me
about that pain being worse than the neck pain.
I got cadaver bone and I think that I am in a better frame of mind
because I have no hip pain.