MRI

I got a preliminary report on my MRI on saturday. I have 2 slightly bulging discs in my neck and a small crevice of fluid in my spinal cord in my neck. I'm not sure what can be done. I hope to talk to the Neurologist sometime this week. It is a relief to know that there was a reason for all of the things going on. Thankfully most of the pain is gone. If I over do it I know about it. As long as I don't get too crazy everything is good.

Thanks for all the prayers

Birthday

I have the best husband ever. Yesterday was my birthday. Jason is so funny he love surprises. So he had a lot of fun not giving me any clues as to my gifts. He got me a much needed purse. Then we went to a very nice restuarant. It's been a long time since we've gone to a really nice place. It was great and I felt very special. God really has blessed me with a great husband.

I feel bad he had already guessed his present for next month. He loves surprises but he is also very good a figuring things out. Too good. I try to surprise him and he had guess correctly all but 2 or 3 times in our 9 years of celebrations.

Way to go Chad

I have to brag. My brother in-law Chad is in his senior year of college in South Carolina. He is there playing baseball. As far a baseball goes he is awesome. This season he has broken the schools record for home runs and is getting near to the regional record. This is a great way to finish BIG. He is an amazing young man with his head firmly on his shoulders. He has devoted so much of is time to baseball and training . Even when I met him he was in 8th grade and sent all of his summer with baseball teams. We think Chad is the best. Our hope is that he will get a chance at the majors.

Neurologist

I finally had my appointment. I really don't have any answers. I will be going to physical therapy and having a MRI for my full spine.

I am now pretty good in the morning but still having the spasm and tingly feelings at night. The degree depends on my activities for the day. I'm feel very lazy.

Better????

The spasms are better as long as I don't do anything. So it hasn't been very fun. I went grocery shopping saterday that put me out for a hour with spasma so bad all I could do is sit on the couch. Easter Sunday was great. Started early but good. We had a sunrise service, church breakfast, regular service, a kids Easter egg hunt and Baptism. It was a fun filled day. It was also low key enough to not really spas out my back. Today is a struggle. My job as low key as it is, is causing my back to spas. I really hope that I can get into the neurologist soon. This sitting around stuff isn't fun.

Update

Well the Neurologist office said that they hope to work me in in about 2 weeks. Thankfully the spams and the electrical feeling going down my spine has reduced a lot. I started another round of steroid treatment as a shotgun approach to reduce any inflammation in the spine if there is any. It lasts for 10 days so I will hopefully get into the Neurologist about the time it ends. Thank You for all your prayers.

New Pain

Well the pain had been very bad lately and keep changing.
My hip continues to have a high level of pain. The nerve sensations are very strong and steady for the first half of the day. Now I have a new one. Yesterday late morning I started feel a little pinch in my neck. Like when you sleep wrong except that this started after I woke up. I continues to try to help it out by little stretches. At church I had a friend rub my shoulders to try and release some of the tightness. No matter what I did nothing helped. By 8:30 last night the pain was so bad the breathing was hard and I thought I would vomit and pass out. The pinch in my neck had turned into a spasm that went down the full right side of my back with tingling into my finger and leg on the right side. What better place for this to happen than at church. After a lot of prayer my husband was ready to take me to the ER. I then remembered that I work for a Doctor and I have his cell number. I explained to him what was happening and that we were going to go to ER. He explained that it was most likely a bad spasm and all the ER would do is pump me full of pain killers. I don't do well on strong pain killers so we opted to not do ER. So now I still had the pinch in my neck/shoulder that if I do not hold my head just right starts to spasm down my back. I went into work to my Doctors surprise and was able to stay til 2:30, then the pain started to increase. I talked with my Doctor today and he is hoping to get me into a Neurologist ASPS, this is a little out of his field. So the Neurologist was out of the office today so first thing tomorrow he will call and try to pull some strings. The very crazy part is all of this pain started without any injury or accident. It has all started out of the blue. My poor husband is beside himself. So if you could be praying for Jason and strength for him and wisdom for the Doctors so they can figure out what's going on.