Originally Posted by
vanslix
And on that note, I had another round of spinal injections today but this time at a different level of the spine - the messed up L6/S1. I made the tech promise to take pictures when he sees a "holy shit" image which yes, he did say last time but failed to take a picture. You just can't say "shit" to a doctor and then not show him the picture, right? But he was overly eager to show me how "special" I was (his words, not mine). When nerves exit the spine, they're supposed to go DOWN. On one side, I had one that bifurcated and went up AND down. The doc wasn't even sure what nerve to call it. L5? S1? L6 on me, even though those aren't supposed to exist. And what the hell was that nerve going up innervating??? I definitely made his job interesting for the day. At least I made somebody happy because my day entailed delivering bad news and holding Kleenex boxes for multiple patients. So long as I can walk upright again after slipping and make someone laugh in the process. May lay off deads altogether for a week because my back seriously interfered with my job this past week by physically limiting me. I know this may sound blasphemous, but my work does come before curls - funny thing was they had trouble keeping the BP cuff on my arm because of the size of my arm, and no, it's not ALL fat.