Some of you lnow from my prior postings that I have had a bunch of surgeries i.e. total shoulder replacement, cervical fusions, lower back X 18,etc.
My left arm was having the pins and needles, tingling and pain crop up over the last 6 months. Told my neurosurgeon at Goodman Campbell brain & spine around August time frame. My doc ordered MRI, x-rays and EMGs. Fast forward to my appointment on my barfday, the 12th. Found out somehow that my fusion of C2 - C3, C3 - C4, C4 - C5 looked excellent. Textbook... but was told the C7 crushed and C8 was deteriorated. I was shown the before surgery and post surgery xrays. Apparently my job is very hard on my body. I'm a millwright.
I got injections today in the C7 area by an accomplished doctor at GCB&S. He was stellar but I'm afraid all I am doing is postponing the inevitable surgery. I also have an ulnar nerve damaged in my elbow and will be seeing another topnotch orthopedic surgeon with GCB&S on the 30th. It's like if I don't have a major surgery every 2 years, it's because I am dead. Ha!
My left arm was having the pins and needles, tingling and pain crop up over the last 6 months. Told my neurosurgeon at Goodman Campbell brain & spine around August time frame. My doc ordered MRI, x-rays and EMGs. Fast forward to my appointment on my barfday, the 12th. Found out somehow that my fusion of C2 - C3, C3 - C4, C4 - C5 looked excellent. Textbook... but was told the C7 crushed and C8 was deteriorated. I was shown the before surgery and post surgery xrays. Apparently my job is very hard on my body. I'm a millwright.
I got injections today in the C7 area by an accomplished doctor at GCB&S. He was stellar but I'm afraid all I am doing is postponing the inevitable surgery. I also have an ulnar nerve damaged in my elbow and will be seeing another topnotch orthopedic surgeon with GCB&S on the 30th. It's like if I don't have a major surgery every 2 years, it's because I am dead. Ha!