I really wanted to try going to the gym/rehab and we did,
with my latest addition/decoration to my wardrobe, my cervical collar ...
I looked ridiculous and was ready though to truly, truly
try.
All in all, I was fortunate that the arm cycle was available
and I did about ten of my fifteen minutes, five in each direction, but my head
was starting to go funky, thus the mini workout. Hubby got me a coffee from the
reception area and at first I thought it helped, but…
Next was my slant-board, actually called the total gym and
that is exactly why I initially chose it due to the possibilities of doing a
lot of good, body wise, for me…but alas today it was not going to be.
I have been proudly doing two sets of fifty reps on there,
and today, after just thirty-five, I became very dizzy and called it quits!
Once home, my neuro’s office called back and suggested that
they would be giving me a referral to pain management, neck injections.
I asked about the doctors backgrounds and they did not know and so I Googled
them, a two person group and one was educated in Santos Domingo, a
practicing M.D. for 28 years and the other a D.O., no info online was available
and so I called their office and the person who answered the phone said she
didn’t know their backgrounds and that concerned me, she finally looked on the
office walls and saw that what I found out was correct, but no residency was
listed either, some do have theirs in the U.S., but none was even on plaques in
their own offices!
Not good, especially when the whole concept of injections in
my neck could be dangerous!
My last MRI was in September and my neuro said due to that
one nine months ago that she felt I did not need surgery yet, huh?
Can’t things change sooner? I know that a fall or a twist or
turn can cause bulges or herniation. And aren’t my symptoms in need of another
evaluation?
Not that I want surgery, but I do believe I would like to
know what else I could do; besides heavy duty meds and injections?
I am running out of local doctors to go to… the one, another doctor that I went to years ago who first diagnosed my cervical stenosis
and the Ataxia and sent me to my first neurologist, because he felt I had MS,
is leaving in about two weeks to a practice on the east coast of Florida… the
good ones all leave, damn! He is an orthopedic surgeon with a fine reputation,
Johns Hopkins trained, Dr. Samuel Hess, good-bye and good luck doc!
Many physicians here, if you check, have come from fine
American schools; my first neuro, his school was Tulane. I have had Harvard
medical guys too.
Some stay and some leave. I just have to find the right ones
still taking patients with my special numerous needs.
The funniest doctor’s info I gleaned was that one had
Colombia as his school not his location, but it was a conversation with a
hospital, not a look-up on my part that time, since Columbia is in NYC and has
a medical school and Colombia also has a medical school, but in South America,
both are spelled differently and are in two different locations with vastly
different reputations. I know confusing. Grenada is another location many
doctors have received medical degrees from as well, who knows what that means…
I sure don’t… but it is worrisome.
I hate when I don’t feel well now and I have to find just
the right way to proceed with my health in my hands…literally!
Tomorrow is another day and I sure hope I become
enlightened. Oddly enough after I called those pain physicians and tried to
reach my doctor to stop her from sending them my referral but her office was
already closed, the pain guys office called me telling me that they just
received the referral, and I said I am not sure if pain management with
injections in my neck, yuck, is how I want to go and they said if you decided let us know…same as Chiropractic with death
and or paralysis is very possible due to manipulation one centimeter off, too scary! And to be honest that is not how
I pictured myself dying, more dynamic for me, with a bang not a fizzle!
On those way too weird notes, allow me to be the very first
to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your
blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!