Yesterday I went to Northwestern Medical Center for a second opinion from a cervical spine specialist. Unfortunately, he confirmed the original diagnosis of a herniated disc. More importantly, and unfortunately, he also confirmed that if there is not significant strengthening of my triceps muscle in relatively short order, I'll need to have surgery to repair the disc or there could be permanent damage to the affected areas of the nerve. Ugh. The surgery is relatively uncomplicated and I would go home that day, but the recovery process would eliminate golf and softball for the rest of the year. So, I'm going to re-double my PT efforts at home to work on getting better over the next few weeks. We'll see.
Ugh, that's all I can write about today.
Just a laid back communication with friends and family who might care about what's going on in Joe's life.
3 comments:
That's frustrating news for you. I'm sorry. Hope the PT efforts do the trick.
Hope it goes well because I know how important your golf and softball are.
I'm sorry to hear it! Fingers crossed the PT is going to do the trick
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