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- Jan 7, 2011
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poughkeepsie,
New_York
so after a 2 year ground up restore I am hours away from starting my car for the first time since i owned it. I was putting the final touches on it when i went to get out from under it when i slipped a disc in my neck and have been layed up for 2 weeks now.
after 2 mri's and a 3rd one scheduled for tomorrow it looks like I might need surgery to remove the disc as its impacting with a nerve cluster causing terribly painful spasms in my left side basically paralyzing me.
I have been living on 80 mg of vallium and 10 mg of percoset a day while trying to get my neck to straighten out enough to see if i can go to physical therapy.
update #1 after all the mri's and cat scans they finally found whats actually causing the issues. I have a spinal cyst that is putting pressure on my spine. Unfortunately right next to it is a defect in my circulatory system called an avm/avf where a vein and an artery mate up.(not good)
update #2 now 5 weeks later and will need 2 surgery's on my spine to fix the issues i have as a result of this little woops. I will be laid up by this for about 16-24 weeks. luckily i have one or two more weeks before thy want to do the surgery and i was told it was ok to do stuff as long as i dont over do it.
what sucks is my whole left side is really week and my left leg is numb all the time and its spreading to the right leg.
what really sucks is about 3 weeks ago during a contrast mri i had a nurse infiltrate a vein when trying to give me the contrast and inject it all into my arm
now in both arms i only have enough strength to hold about a half gallon of milk before its to heavy.
how can you tell i own a dsm. even im on jackstands.
pissed me off so much since it is literally 2 hours away from starting the car for the first time in 2 years. sucks because i will not be able to drive it because i cant push the clutch in because of my leg being weak and numb all the time.
Lucky for me i have very slowly be able to get the car almost ready to be started. i have to rest for about an hour for every 20-30 mins of work i put in but i swear i will hear this thing turn over before i get operated on.
after 2 mri's and a 3rd one scheduled for tomorrow it looks like I might need surgery to remove the disc as its impacting with a nerve cluster causing terribly painful spasms in my left side basically paralyzing me.
I have been living on 80 mg of vallium and 10 mg of percoset a day while trying to get my neck to straighten out enough to see if i can go to physical therapy.
update #1 after all the mri's and cat scans they finally found whats actually causing the issues. I have a spinal cyst that is putting pressure on my spine. Unfortunately right next to it is a defect in my circulatory system called an avm/avf where a vein and an artery mate up.(not good)
update #2 now 5 weeks later and will need 2 surgery's on my spine to fix the issues i have as a result of this little woops. I will be laid up by this for about 16-24 weeks. luckily i have one or two more weeks before thy want to do the surgery and i was told it was ok to do stuff as long as i dont over do it.
what sucks is my whole left side is really week and my left leg is numb all the time and its spreading to the right leg.
what really sucks is about 3 weeks ago during a contrast mri i had a nurse infiltrate a vein when trying to give me the contrast and inject it all into my arm
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now in both arms i only have enough strength to hold about a half gallon of milk before its to heavy.
how can you tell i own a dsm. even im on jackstands.
pissed me off so much since it is literally 2 hours away from starting the car for the first time in 2 years. sucks because i will not be able to drive it because i cant push the clutch in because of my leg being weak and numb all the time.
Lucky for me i have very slowly be able to get the car almost ready to be started. i have to rest for about an hour for every 20-30 mins of work i put in but i swear i will hear this thing turn over before i get operated on.