moto-rama
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Earlier today I read through Aaron's post in general about his catastrophic injuries and paralysis condition.
It put things in perspective for me. Really.
There are also several reports in this subforum that are very sobering. I've had one fairly serious injury in the almost 50 years I've been riding, so I don't suppose I've got much to complain about.
Note: there was no apparent injury that caused the following chain of events.
But last year about a month before Christmas I was down and out with a mysterious series of health issues, digestive tract not functioning, non specific lower back pain, numbness and pain in my right thigh, and could barely stand, bouts of dizziness, nausea, stomach pain, I lost 50 lbs in 3 months.....Just bizarre. ...I have Kaiser, and a pretty good doctor, but she just shrugged her shoulders when I came in, or called to report yet another thing was happening.
I was sent to a medley of specialists and they all missed the point, I was fucking going down hill like a ton of shit and no one could figure it out.
Then my Neuro sent me for a full spinal MRI....
A few days later they call and send me to "physical medicine". Huh? A sports doctor sort of guy? Really?
I get there, barely able to crawl at this point. The doctor is 6' 7", at least. OK, he's a foot taller than me, but maybe he knows something.
Hangs up my MRI images and points to L1 and says " Wow, that must be causing some problems. How do you feel?"
Well after nearly 9 months of feeling like I could die at any moment... I said "have you got an hour?"
Diagnosis: Herniated L1-L2 vertabral disk. Prognosis: physical therapy and you can avoid other intervention. Oh really? Is that IT?
Sure enough, a physical therapy regimen had me back on the road to recovery within a week. One week.
Still not 100% but am gradually getting there after 6 months or so of doing the right exercises and avoiding things that can aggravate or reinjure it.
Who knew that a herniated disk could cause so much havoc? I had no idea.
It put things in perspective for me. Really.
There are also several reports in this subforum that are very sobering. I've had one fairly serious injury in the almost 50 years I've been riding, so I don't suppose I've got much to complain about.
Note: there was no apparent injury that caused the following chain of events.
But last year about a month before Christmas I was down and out with a mysterious series of health issues, digestive tract not functioning, non specific lower back pain, numbness and pain in my right thigh, and could barely stand, bouts of dizziness, nausea, stomach pain, I lost 50 lbs in 3 months.....Just bizarre. ...I have Kaiser, and a pretty good doctor, but she just shrugged her shoulders when I came in, or called to report yet another thing was happening.
I was sent to a medley of specialists and they all missed the point, I was fucking going down hill like a ton of shit and no one could figure it out.
Then my Neuro sent me for a full spinal MRI....
A few days later they call and send me to "physical medicine". Huh? A sports doctor sort of guy? Really?
I get there, barely able to crawl at this point. The doctor is 6' 7", at least. OK, he's a foot taller than me, but maybe he knows something.
Hangs up my MRI images and points to L1 and says " Wow, that must be causing some problems. How do you feel?"
Well after nearly 9 months of feeling like I could die at any moment... I said "have you got an hour?"
Diagnosis: Herniated L1-L2 vertabral disk. Prognosis: physical therapy and you can avoid other intervention. Oh really? Is that IT?
Sure enough, a physical therapy regimen had me back on the road to recovery within a week. One week.
Still not 100% but am gradually getting there after 6 months or so of doing the right exercises and avoiding things that can aggravate or reinjure it.
Who knew that a herniated disk could cause so much havoc? I had no idea.
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