G'nite ya filthy animals!
Laid up with really bad sciatica and this/our site keeps me above water.
Long time aware, 1st time sufferer.
NCSWIC
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Surgery can help, but...
but indeed... just had c4,c5,c6 fused and now they're looking at my lower lumbar. My power lifting days are done. Kind of a catch 22'. It's what saved me so far as my size but what it took to get there?...that's what did more than a bit of the damage. Either way, I told em' I was too damn old and sick of being magnetized and stuffed into tubes that I cannot fit into. Freaked me out the last time and I said don't you have music or anything, something that will help??? Dude asked me what I needed and I told him "well you're not gonna have it son but .... any Pantera, Ministry or possibly Motorhead?" Guy responded to the other nurse and said "go pull up my bad ass 80's head banger power metal playlist please." I shit you not. -and he delivered. seriously surprised me and made a 45 minute scan go by in a blink. Literally woke up to Megadeth's symphony of destruction playing. I just had to try and remember my spinal cord at the time was being crushed and not to try to move - hard to do when feeling like the bionic man and no pain from only God knows how much dilauded.
ps. and whoever the fkstick was that was my 1st doc' that told me the ablation would work- well, he's fkin' liar and I'd shove that entire mri machine up his ass sideways and turn it on after making him swallow a bucket of 8 penny nails. nothing extreme, i just wanted him to know the frustration and inconvenience of it all. puke inducing little vermin didn't even speak a damn bit of english. really pissed me off. sorry- my emotions got the best of me there. may have to make drink and listen to air supply's greatest hits just to get out of that head space. -cheers 🍻
You got an updoot from me for the story. It was enjoyable to read, especially the eight penny pail of nails!. Hope you can get your back problems figured out and have no more issues with it. Good luck, fren.
many thanks Tynyyn, much appreciated. yeah that whole nail thing, well.. i mean you can only take so much pain and then people telling you "this time" - and it being wrong. I'm still kicking though. It ever gets me into wheelchair status I'd put a 383 stroker motor with a blower and open headers on it just to piss off my neighbors who insist on letting me know how sorry they are for me as they jog off in their $200 nike outfits. -I'm not jaded though. totally handling all this with an abundance of hope. -and vodka. cheers friend, and thanks again. I sure appreciate it. 🍻
Mom, 89, has had 2 spinal fusions, in '66 and again in '86. I got her skeleton in some aspects. It'll take me being only able to crawl to succumb to tbe knife.