What's New on September 8, 1999

SEPTEMBER 8, 1999

The spinal is over and done with. It ended up not being quite what they would have liked but... LOL... but it's a JO thing we are talking about here. LOL...

The spinal was done under fluoroscopy using a mild general anesthesia as well as a local. The MD who did it said that there would have been no way that the neurologist could have done it. It appears my spine has these knobby proturbences between the disc that impede passage of the needle. They had to poke six times using fluoroscopy before they could find a passageway through to my spinal cord. Barnacles... LOL... I have barnacles.

Anyway once they were in he said my CSF [cerebral spinal fluid] moved slower than he'd ever seen... 1gtt [drop] per the normal 4.

The process which normally takes about 20 minutes turned into an hour and a half ordeal but you know what??? I wouldn't get you one for Christmas BUT I wouldn't tell you not to do it either.

It wasn't so bad, if they give you Versed. All I felt was a sting like your normal local anesthesia sting followed by six pressure ache that only produce a nerve twinge twice. I choose to believe that the Vagal response was God's way of protecting me from the spinal that would have gone on last week.... without success... with much pain.

Anyway, I was supposed to only stay for an hour but they decided to keep me for four hours but they allowed Mike to bring in the laptop so I could write this up while still fresh in my mind... and in the same frame of mind.

Now, they have decided I can be in my recliner leaning back. I have no H/A [headache] but, I'm not sure I have a head. They gave me 2 percocet and an ativan.

Woooohoooo.... anybody see me???

For a funny incident that occurred during the spinal, read my story,
Think Happy Thoughts.

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