Sydney took the last of two days of school state testing today. Jim took him there while I was at the doctors office in Jonesboro. On my way back I picked up Sydney a pizza and put it in the trunk because it was going to be after 5 when I got there an didn't feel like being in a hurry to make the beef stew I had planned. Sydney said math was not good because there was shapes and diagonal stuff, he said he just guessed at them, good for him. He devoured all but 2 pieces of pizza and left the crust, he also ate my mashed potatoes and gravy, biscuit, and one remaining chicken strip from a KFC $5 fill-up box. He even drank my un-sweet tea while I nursed my Kum&Go coffee concoction the half hour drive home.
Dr Li is wonderful, I was thrilled because after looking at my neck x-rays that I had done just minutes before her walking into the room, it was determined that my right hand carpal tunnel issues may be directly due from my neck. Not only that but as the arthritis plagues me as I was told the degeneration has now moved up from the C-5 to the C-4 level. I knew it was worse, I'm not in this much pain for fun!!!I wonder how she will do the C4-C7 fusion now? I was told a cervical uniplate is mostly what she uses but that she had these other models sitting on her counter.
I'm smiling here because I lost my bracelet and gained a necklace. I was fitted for a hard, lightweight, fashionable collar (I think I will let Sydney help me decorate it) because I am now officially on the books for surgery on the 15th.OH YEAH BABY!!! I was sent down stairs to have my vitamin D level checked in a blood test after I was fitted. Doc said that I will need to be on Rx vitamin D & Calcium Citrate the rest of my life. Just call me the pill popper.
This is directly from my chart
Findings:
There are degenerative disc changes at C4-C5 C5-C6 and C6-C7. There is reduced motion of the C5-C7 segment of the cervical spine. There are degenerative changes in the posterior elements.
That means the changes I mentioned and now spurs have formed off the spondyles ( yeah, yeah, yeah, shoot me now I should now this)
