Hi all
It is now 8 days since my Cervical ADR surgery and things looking good. My walking has greatly improved, still slow and extending distance each day but legs pain free at present. Still have alot of pain in neck and shoulders but it is easeing, also pain in left arm where surgeon knocked a nerve is now calming down to tolrable. Hope everyone is in good spirits and enjoying the weather.
Regards Tony
Hi Tony
Sounds like you're doing well!
Gives me hope for when I have mine done so keep us informed of your progress please.
Take care
Lyn
Hi Lyn
Thanks for reply things do seem to be going well at the moment, will keep you informed. When do you expect to have it done?
Regards Tony
Hi Tony
Not sure when but see the Neuro Surgeon in August. Having a number of tests to decide extent and precise whereabouts of the nerve damage and problems with cervical stenosis etc etc!
Hopefully will find out what they are planning to do and when I see him in August.
Hoping whatever they decide to do will relieve some of this pain and enable me to move a around a bit better than I am.
Totally fed up at the moment but hey ho, thats life.
Take care and let me know how you get on
Lyn
Hi Lyn
Mine was C5/C6 and the ADR surgery seems to have cured the myelopathy that was causing my walking and arm problems which is great, just like you I wanted some of my mobility back. The rest of the problems I will have to wait and see once healing proccess is complete. I have my follow up appointment in august and can then discuss if anything else needs doing. Hope your appointment goes well and they come up with the correct procedure for you.
Regards Tony
Hi Tony,
I'm glad to hear that you are improving. Sorry I have replied earlier but some of us have been a bit sidetracked, must be the weather.
A mud-free Glastonbury and Wimbledon, is this a first?
I see the neurosurgeon in two weeks. The chappy I saw at neurology ruled out surgery for me but I am being refered for a second opinion. My disc problems are with c3/4 & c6/7. There are other problems with all my cervical vertibrae such as stenosis, osteophytes, stalagmites, stalagtights and a few tectonic plates.
Pains are getting worse in neck, I am tying to make the most of my bus pass but travelling on the clapped out old bangers that we have in Cornwall is rather uncomfortable when you have cs.
Gerry is looking into the possibility of starting a CS website. When things get back to normal more info will be posted about this.
Alan has gone fishing.
Best of luck with the recovery.
Cheers,
Janner
P.S. When you are better can you teach England how to play football?
Knackered though we are I bet we could have done a better job.
P.P.S
Darn it, no matter how many times we check before posting we always spot a mistake or two afterwards.
We need a spell checker here.
Janner
Hi Janner and Tony
No football talk allowed on this site and that is the law. Any more and I will have you both arrested for breach of my rights as a female (and I have lost all my soaps due to damned football). SO NO MORE PLEASE!!!!
Anyway, that's my rant for today!
Don't worry Janner, I keep a careful eye on spelling mistakes and will keep records for future use against you! Beware
Regards
Lyn(I hate football)b
Hi Lyn
dont blame me I never mentioned football, I cant stand it myself. Now look what you have made me do I mentioned the unmentionable word. I have got fed up trying to find something worth watching on telly after all I am resting getting over surgery, you would think they would have more consideration.
Regards Tony [I hate football]
I never said I liked football.
Silly game, 22 grown men running around a field kicking a bag of wind.
Nearly as bad as golf, walking around a field hitting your balls with an iron club. Not my idea of fun. At least cs rules out silly sports.
Night night all.
Janner
Hi All,
Just for the record, for those who read a previous posting of mine, I am not actually a trainspotter neither do I own an anorak. It is just that we are lucky to have a lot of steam engines visiting Cornwall this year. I, like many people, like to see steam. However, cs makes photography a bit difficult these days.
That's all for today as I'm in a lot of pain.
Cheers,
Janner
Hi Everyone I'm still here where is everybody? Please come back as I'm recovering from surgery and feeling lonely.
Regards Tony
HI Tony
Hope it's going well. It's not like we have'nt been busy elsewhere ! Watching the footy, I mean. I must be the only addict here judgeing by previous posts. No comment on the trainspotting...sounds a bit dangerous to me !
Regards Gerry
Hi Tony,
We're all still here, but you need to look on our group pages as well.
Yes Gerry Trainspotting can be dangerous when you have cs, anyway there's nothing to intertest me now until September. I was thinking out taking up UFO spotting but it will hurt my neck too much. CS can spoil a lot of activities, we have an air show in Cornwall this month but I can't watch that either, nor the national firework championships at Plymouth.
Cs really is a pain in the neck.
:cheers:
Janner
Hi Janner
As a Plan B, so to speak, why not join a UFO spotting group. OOOPs, sorry, seems you already have !!
Your comments raise yet another issue for me. So often, we with C/S can't get involved in what we would really like to be doing because of possible counter reactions. So, what do we do. Sit at home and feel frustrated...that's a regular feeling and difficult to avoid. It's the first reaction that anyone would normally have to having their Plan A turned upside down.
It's probably a good idea to have a Plan B , and even a Plan C, which include activities more suitable to a C/S bad phase, already prepared . Perhaps Plan B , or Plan C, should really be Plan A. And Plan A should be relegated to Plan Z. The one thing about finding something interesting to do, even if it is trainspotting (sorry), is that it must be interesting enough to hold your attention and this will be different for everyone. For instance , doesn't spotting the same train twice get a bit boring. For that matter, are'nt all trains the same. It's ok, i don't really want to know !!
I think I've figured it out now. If I dedicate my Plan B to figuring out what my Plan C should be, and likewise use Plan C to figure out what Plan D should be, it might start looking like I'm a very busy person, always planning.
Until, that is, I get to Plan Z, which is really Plan A, which in turn gets superimposed with Plan B and the whole cycle kicks off again.
I see a new leaflet on the way \" How to Avoid Planning \" !!
Hope everyone finds this helpful.
Regards
Gerry :zen:
PS.....
For those of you who pretend you're not interested in football ( usually means your local team is **** ) , relegation is what usually happens to teams like Portsmouth, Barnsley and Hull at the end of the season. Next year it will also apply to Liverpool !
Gerry
Hi Gerry,
No not all trains are the same especially when there's a steam engine or two at the head of them. I have no interest in diesel or mordern trains, only steam. Which is just as well as cs already hinders my little bit of steam-trainspotting. I am fortunate to live near Cornwall's only remaining railway turntable, so it is an added attraction to go and see the giants of the steam age turned. Sadly I have to peer through a high chainlink fence to view them on the turntable. I have tried climbing up onto things, like others do, but it rather hurts and I risk falling. In September we have two steam specials coming down including Tornado which was only built in the last couple of years. The turntable has just been measured to check that it can accomodate Tornado and it's tender.
We had better stop mentioning trains as it is off Fred.
As for UFO's, I think we have all had enough of nasty things from other planets for now. The new coalition government are certainly not of this world with their plans for punishing people for being disabled.
But you are right about planning what to do and where to go. We have to carefully consider how everything affects our cs condition. Summer is the most difficult time as there is more to see and do, sadly we often have to remain on the sidelines and watch other people enjoying themselves as it is too painful or too risky to join in.
Apart from the physical pain of cs boredom is a major cross we have to bare.
Cheers,
Janner
Dear Gerry
I presume you are on prescribed medication? Plan A to Z and back to A etc causes me a little bit of concern. Have you considered a psychiatric evaluation?? One would be recommended A.S.A.P.
As for football? I have no idea whether my local team is any good or not? I never watch, listen to or take any interest in any of these overpaid, under worked and privileged hooligans running round a field, scratching their bits and spitting on the floor! I don't know where the interest comes from in many men? Maybe boredom with other aspects of life?
Would much prefer UFO spotting as you could sit in a comfy chair and watch through a telescope through the bedroom window! Sounds good to me!
Don't think I could be a train spotter though! Haven't got an anorak!
Take care
Lyn
HI Lyn
You might be right. Plan A to Z and back again and things start spinning. Once Plan A has gone out the window and allied itself to the UFOs, it's time for the humour to kick in. However, I do think there's something in keeping up the appearance of always having a plan. Better stop there....I feel a spin coming on ! Of course, I never apply my own nuggets of advice to myself. I'm much too busy just thinking them up.
As it happens, you did manage to spot my weakness. Just started a double course of anti biotics in preparation for some overdue dental work. One of the courses is Metronidazole and reports say it can addle your brain a bit. So far ( 3 days ) it's been ok....I think ! Last night, I started watching Channel 4 film ....Star Trek, The Search For Spock, (co-incidence or what ), but managed to pinch myself and turned it off. Just too weird. Star Trek will never be the same again. It never was really, but I did liike the 60's TV episodes....I was younger then.
I'm rambling, and I'm not even going to attempt explaining the wonders of footy. You either get it or you don't, and just because you don't doesn't mean you won't. I can still remember the match I saw on TV back in 1982 which won me over. I was stuck in bed with flu and needed some distraction , so I actually watched an FA Cup Game. Up til then I had absolutely zero interest in football.
Rambling again
Regards
Gerry
Hi Lyn,
As I said before I don't have an anorak, nor a wooly hat covered in badges, nor a tatty little notebook to write numbers in with a tiny chewed-up Pencil.
I have tried having plans A - Z but got so confused that I gave up. I just take each day as it comes, I decide what to do according to how the pain is in the mornings. Apart from that I have a few regular places I go to in order to ease the boredom or get even more bored that I wished I'd stayed home in the first place. That's another big disadvantage of being disabled, the perpetual boredom. Beats me how people cope with being in a wheelchair all day, it would drive me potty.
I don't really recommend UFO spotting as there's enough weird people on earth without looking elsewhere for more. Best to just go forth and prosper.
:cheers:
Janner