About me...book 2

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So here's the next part...

During the eval the neurologist did in 2004, she also found 'mild' bi-

lateral carpel tunnel. (Great! just what I needed...groannnn!) So

now, just in the last month or so, the CP has really started rearing

it's ugly pointed little head and I am having increasing difficulty

ignoring it. I am a paralegal, so I pretty much earn my living by

typing and doing computer work, so to have CP interfere with my

livelihood really isn't a good thing! But I am kinda like

the 'little train that could'...I am not giving up, I am not quitting

my 'reconditioning' program...until I am absolutely totally not able

to continue. I refuse to accept that I have no control over my

destiny.

I have a pain specialist who I just started seeing. Since he is the

first one I've been to, I have no comparison, only what I have seen

from others here. Evidently, I am a very very lucky person in the

doc I have. He is pretty good and he listens. I believe he respects

me also, but then in just two months, I have been able to prove to

him my commitment to myself and my determination to be the best I can

be, no matter the pain. That's his job, to take care of the pain, so

I let him do it. I also have an excellent physical therapist who is

a cervical specialist...she has been a wonderful advocate for me,

helping me see that I am WORTH putting time and energy into (I was

the first one she had to convince of that!). I also have a

psychologist who is helping me deal with the mental and emotional

issues surrounding chronic pain. Her job is also to help me keep an

eye out for signs and symptoms of depression, we have a deal...she

doesn't give me BS and I don't give her BS, it's a pretty good deal.

Then, of course, I have the neurologist who's job it is to be the

diagnostician. All of these people send a report to each of the

others of every appointment I have with them, so everyone knows what

everyone else is doing and we can all make sure nothing is missed, or

in some cases, we can share ideas of a different way to handle

something.

Only a couple more to go...stay tuned for book 3

Hugsssssss

Tammie in Oregon