My Story

[parishht]

Ok guys, here's my story, I am not looking for sympathy or pity,
this is more of a warning and informational post.


I have been laid up since December 1.
No computer cause I would have to bend my neck.
I had to get a neck operation.
Doctor gave me two choices:

1 - go to therapy with a 30% chance of recovery and absolutely no lifting fro the rest of my life and lose complete use of my left arm.

2 - Fuse vertebrate’s c6 and c7; be laid up for 6 weeks and after recovery
minimal heavy lifting.

I think my choice was clear.
Actually, right after surgery, in recovery, my pains were gone.
If your family doctor says that pains in your arms, forearms,
hands and tingling fingers, are from sleeping in a dumb position,
or bursitis, GET A SECOND OPINION from a spine and neck doctor.
It is amazing how the body is linked together.

I was having strange pains for a couple of years.

Then one Saturday I was doing cement work, moved over 1000 lbs in 80 lb bags, from store, to truck, truck to garage and
from garage to walkway.
Next day I had a stiff neck and then progressively worse each day.
Major pains started mid October, had surgery December 1.
Surgeon said this was coming on for a lllooonnnggg time, but the cement work
did me in.

When the pain got so bad, I went to the e-room.
The symptoms showed The Big One, e-room took EKG, took X rays, said it must be torn rotator cuff, gave me Motrin and said bye-bye.
Luckily one of my wife’s best friends works for a neck and spine specialist explained everything to her and the next day I was getting an MRI and the good pain pills.
When the surgeon saw my MRI, he asked our friend how was I functioning.
The disk came out and was up along my spinal cord, he was sure I was in more pain than I was letting everyone know.


It is amazing how fast things go.

I still have to be careful how fast I move my head and I can’t look down for long periods of time. Makes it hard to type.

Luckily I have good insurance, all doctor bills covered and wages covered by short term disability.
It is just very boring sitting around watching TV, good thing I like the science channel, the Discovery network and the History channel, I would really be bored.