Well that's me off my bike for a while

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My thoughts are often with you @SatNavSaysStraightOn
I hope you continue with some improvements

As you may have seen on other threads my wife is in hospital and may well have reduced mobility
The exact outcome we don't really know yet but I hope she will be able to walk after a fashion

I have great admiration for your attitude and that you can keep posting here

Bob
 
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SatNavSaysStraightOn

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Changed hemispheres!
My thoughts are often with you @SatNavSaysStraightOn
I hope you continue with some improvements

As you may have seen on other threads my wife is in hospital and may well have reduced mobility
The exact outcome we don't really know yet but I hope she will be able to walk after a fashion

I have great admiration for your attitude and that you can keep posting here

Bob
It hasn't been easy. I can tell you. Neither is the physio and rehab, but I am determine to get mobile again even if I still can't get myself dressed. :wacko:
I'm not certain I will walk again without crutches at least not any time soon but I shall keep trying. It is all I can do. I have lost about ⅓ of the use of my leg or more positively regained about half of what I had lost in that leg. I still have the 1/10 loss of my left side to contend with but I'm used to that, so it doesn't affect me as much. It is the pain that is the biggest issue and controlling the right leg. Just getting it to do what I want is so tiring!

He'll be asking you to create a Strava segment of the fountain next!
It's inside my privacy zone :blush: and strava does not detect when I cycle around it unless I do quite a wide circuit (in the past that was).

Please pass my best wishes to her and my thought are with you both.
 
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Currently rather sore tbh. Taken extra codeine and paracetamol. The valium I was given is still working: apparently I should sleep well tonight - that really will be a first!

One of the 4 injection sites is still very sore, that being the worst side at L5-S1.

Next appointment in 6 weeks time. Needles to say there is concern about me still not being able to sit up, which right now is still the case. Standing this evening was also rather sore as well.

We shall see what the next few words bring but I am not holding out much hope. I think it is more a case of having covered all their bases before they consider either during the vertebrae or releasing the entire disk tbh. She again mentioned that there are other s options available to deal with the pain. But we will have to wait now and see what happens.
 

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:hugs:, :cuppa: and :tired: for you tonight, young lady ! ^_^

Sleep well !

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before i was offered surgery, i was given the option of one of these,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_cord_stimulator
i know two people that have these implants , one says its the best thing ever , the other says it does nothing .
 
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SatNavSaysStraightOn

SatNavSaysStraightOn

Changed hemispheres!
before i was offered surgery, i was given the option of one of these,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_cord_stimulator
i know two people that have these implants , one says its the best thing ever , the other says it does nothing .
Interesting to read but I suspect I would not be a candidate for it because I have to have an mri and bone scan every 2 years to monitor another 2 chronic medical conditions (pituitary adenoma and bone density due to adrenal insufficiency) but it is good to know about it, thank you.
 
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Did you get enough sleep this time, @SatNavSaysStraightOn ? :smile:
Just a day case, so I was admitted at 11am with no food or water since 8 am and taken down to theatre a 5:30pm. I slept well once I got home until the <:wacko:> car alarm decided to be faulty at 3 am this morning and repeatedly went off from then until roughly 5am. Sadly getting downstairs to deal with it is not something I can do and my oh sleeping in another house at the moment failed to hear it at all!

Now more sore than before, but I was warned that I would be for a couple of days.

Thanks

SNSSO
 
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