Update on me

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I'm still having computer proboems...for some reason my posts don't

get thru to Yahoo unless I post from the website.

Yesterday I went to the pain clinic, and the doc had the results of

my MRI. It turns out that all that horrendous pain I've been in

since Christmas is due to a ruptured disk in my lumber spine.

I really feel angry about the first dictor I saw in the ER...he's

the one who didn't do any kind of exams or anything, and was rude to

me & my husband (he came into the room & yelled at both of us). If

he'd done his job properly that night, the ruptured disk would have

been discovered right away, and I wouldn't have had to spend the

last month in pain. Well, I've filed a complaint against him, and I

made sure they put down that I have a ruptured disk & he did nothing

that would have diagnosed it. My pain doctor could tell, before I

had the MRI, that there was a problem with a disk, just by a

physical exam. The MRI just showed it up, the location & severity of

it.

So now I have to look forward to a treatment called Lumbar Epidural

Injections. The doc thinks I may need 3 or 4 to get the disk back in

place and relieve the pain. I'm not looking forward to it, but I

guess it's better than surgury! My father had a disk problem in his

lumbar spine about 16 years ago, & he spent months in traction

before they finally operated, removed the disks, & bolted his

vertebrae together. I'm glad that I don't have to go thru something

like that!

cyn