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Dam Bev, you need to get together with my wife kelly, you guys are both on the same page with the degenerative disc, fibromyalga(sp)etc. Except her radial nerve was on her left arm. I have to salute you for getting on that bike and enjoying life because I know it's hard for her sometimes with all the pain. Take care timYeah, I think RiFFRaFF is the winner! Sorry, Doug, but you've been through A LOT.
Here's my sorry story:
Conditions and Illnesses
- Arthritis, systemic, degenerative, non-Rheumatoid
- Spondylosis – spinal arthritis, with osteophyte formation
- Spinal Stenosis
- Degenerative Disc Disease – multiple levels of degeneration, desiccation, herniation, osteophytes, cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine
- Slight Spinal Curvature and Lordosis due to above conditions
- Neuropathy - generalized
- Fibromyalgia – severe and widespread
- COPD – recurrent pneumonia w/ collapsed lungs
- Meniere’s Disease – with rotational vertigo, sporadic hearing loss, and tinnitis
- Sleep Apnea
- Mitral Valve Prolapse
- Hypertension
- Hypercholesterolemia
Recent Surgeries
- Spinal Cord Stimulator Implant – 08/22/08
- Sympathetic Nerve Block Injections, post SCS Implant Surgery, for damaged nerves to left leg, nicked spinal cord, during surgery
- Multiple cervical and lumbar rhizotomy procedures, facet joint arthritis
- Multiple epidural injections, cervical and lumbar spine
- Multiple transforaminal epidural injections, cervical and lumbar spine
- Shoulder surgery, left shoulder, resection clavical, need right shoulder surgery
- Fractured nose/Deviated septum repair, three times
- Lumpectomies, three times, pre-cancerous cells discovered
Injuries
Mine is mostly my body self-destructing, some from labor during trucking days, several auto accidents, dumb luck...
- Vertebrae fracture, L-4, Vertebrae fracture L-1, several additional compression fractures
- Radial nerve damage, right arm
- Cervical and lumbar spine injuries
- Fractured clavical
OK, now let's ride and forget all this stuff!!!!! :roll: :lol: