life is never boring

[miriam_e]

Some years ago a car ran into the back of mine when I was stationary at the traffic lights. It damaged my neck and not long afterwards I started to get extreme pain in my right arm and then to lose strength and feeling in it. When I saw a neurosurgeon he rushed me into hospital and operated on my neck. The nerve was being constricted where it exited from between the vertebrae and I would end up with a paralysed arm the way I was going. If the nerve died then it was extremely unlikely I'd ever regain use of it. So he drilled out the hole in my neck and I regained full use of my arm.

Recently I have once again been having similar pain in that same arm, though affecting different parts of it this time. When it gets particularly bad I even have numbness in my fingers. I'm not very happy about this. I really don't want that surgery again. When the nerosurgeon was telling me what to expect before the original operation he said that it would hurt more than I could imagine. He was right. But it did fix the problem.

Life sure isn't boring.

Comments

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I must admit I'm a little worried. But I'll try to ride it out. Aspirin is about the best thing for it, I think. Strong painkillers are useless and just mask it. Aspirin actually reduces the swelling that is the main problem.