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  • Jess,

    I hope that Sparky gets a break soon. He deserves it. I know how much he means to you.

    Melissa
    Melissa

    Fused from C2 - sacrum 7/2011

    April 21, 2020- another broken rod surgery

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    • thanks Melissa
      Sparky has to go for yet another ultra sound Monday January
      26th....

      i guess the stress is getting to me....i went to hospital yesterday
      because of severe pain behind shoulder in soft tissue, with
      numbness and tingling down left arm thru finger tips...GP wanted
      it checked out to rule out heart attack, since women can have weird
      heart attack symptoms...
      4 plus hours later and i was back home....with valium prescription
      that helps relax muscles....just gave me 10 pills, of course...that
      is how ER's are...
      see other docs in Manhattan next week, Tuesday and Wednesday...

      the pain was severe....absolutely excruciating....
      today valium plus oxy is helping...though they say not to combine
      them....but they gave me 5 mg valium and doc in Manhattan gives
      me 10 mg valium.

      i cannot wrap my mind around the fact that another cyst showed up
      in my puppy less than month after surgery.....and i do not know
      what Monday's ulra sound will show....
      the doc at hospital said my pain was coming from my herniated disc
      in neck...but i think stress is just compounding all of it.

      jess...and Sparky
      Last edited by jrnyc; 01-21-2015, 04:35 PM.

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      • OH MY GOSH Jess! That sounds harrowing. Oh my gosh.

        Is the pain under control today?

        Would the Botox injections help with the new very bad pain if it is due to the herniated disc?

        Please take care of yourself. I know you have so much worry now. The vet will figure out what is going on with the baby.
        Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis

        No island of sanity.

        Question: What do you call alternative medicine that works?
        Answer: Medicine


        "We are all African."

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        • thanks Sharon

          the few valium they gave me are helping relax the area....
          i am willing to try any injections the pain doc thinks will
          work when i see him next Wednesday....botox or anything
          else...except steroids, which i really cannot risk....
          the hospital doc asked me about them....i told him what
          the shots did to my cortisol...he nodded, as if he has
          heard it before.

          thanks for the concern
          jess...and Sparky

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          • as badly as i need injections in my shoulders and upper spine,
            i am going to have to cancel trip to pain doctor this week...
            the blizzard will be dumping 12-30 inches of snow in NYC
            area and up and down the coast....no way to travel to appt
            Tuesday and another appt Wednesday in Manhattan...
            have to hope the pain doc has an opening next week...
            and the charming winter weather cooperates...

            hope all on coast are staying safe and warm...
            have to watch that my little white puppy does not disappear
            in all the white stuff that will be falling soon....just his little
            black nose shows....
            jess....and Sparky

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            • Jess please take care. I hope you can reschedule.

              Is baby Sparky still wearing the cone?
              Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis

              No island of sanity.

              Question: What do you call alternative medicine that works?
              Answer: Medicine


              "We are all African."

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              • thanks Sharon...
                i hope i can reschedule to sometime fairly soon....

                yes, poor puppy still in cone...on antibiotic pills every 8 hours..
                ultra sound scheduled for today to look for more cysts, since
                vet found one last week and drained it..
                but the storm may prevent me from taking him in...
                they like to keep him all day and the ultra sound tech usually
                does not show up until 3 p.m.
                it is a very annoying and unfair policy that vets everywhere
                follow....
                i called his vet and am waiting for her to call me back...and
                see if i can bring him in at noon or reschedule to next Monday....

                thanks for the concern....
                Sparky would give you puppy kisses if you
                were here....

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                • rescheduled to two separate appts...
                  but not available on consecutive days...
                  have to go in Feb 3 for meds and Feb 11
                  for injections....exhausting 3 hour trip
                  each direction...in winter it is grueling...as much as
                  i love Manhattan...
                  doctor won't write meds on same day as shots...
                  cause insurance won't pay him for both...
                  so if two separate appts, then he is paid twice...
                  all about the $$$$

                  j.

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                  • How is your weather ? and how is Sparky ?

                    Is he feeling ok?

                    Melissa
                    Melissa

                    Fused from C2 - sacrum 7/2011

                    April 21, 2020- another broken rod surgery

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                    • hi Melissa
                      thanks for asking...
                      Sparky still on antibiotics for UTI
                      he had no new cysts today at ultra sound...
                      he is worn out from getting 200 ml of fluid today, to
                      try to flush out crystals and "sediment" in his urine.
                      they had me buy "prescription cat food" for him...
                      but he wouldn't eat the "prescription dog food" last
                      year.....so i doubt he will like the cat stuff either.

                      we are about to get slammed with blizzard...forecast
                      changed for NYC to 12 inches but they said New England
                      will get worst...CT. MA, RI, Maine....right up coast...
                      20 inches at least...ugh.

                      my shoulders are bad and am over due for botox shots...
                      weather just never cooperates in northeast in winter.

                      hope you are nice and warm in southern CA
                      jess...and Sparky

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                      • i cancelled pain doc appt for tomorrow, Wed, Feb 11th...
                        just cannot do it...
                        New England got dumped on with another 8 inches to a foot
                        of snow, on top of snow from 2 other storms, one a blizzard...
                        the doctor is in Manhattan....and since NYC got little to no snow
                        (bless my favorite place) the receptionist on phone didn't
                        understand....but i told her that on Tuesday, all Amtrak trains
                        in northeast were over 2 hours late...because of the weather
                        in New England...
                        i do not wish to put myself thru that....the trains might be
                        a little better tomorrow...but Amtrak is notorious in snow...
                        for being late, not running, etc...
                        i was just in Manhattan at same doctor's office to get
                        prescriptions last week...of course, if they stopped worrying
                        about insurance payments and cared about patient (in pain)
                        having to come back twice for what they COULD take care
                        of in one visit...
                        but that would mean putting patient....and not $$....first.

                        sooooo....as much as left shoulder and entire upper spine would
                        love to get some botox in it...not gonna happen this month...

                        spring cannot get here fast enuf....
                        jess...and Sparky(he does not like winter either)

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                        • Oh Jess. (sad face). Yes, the weather is doing a number there-- I've been following it closely as I have a daughter/family in New Hampshire just an hour from Boston and they've been getting all that Boston's been getting. You two stay warm and safe. So sorry about the pain. Spring will come.
                          71 and plugging along... but having some problems
                          2007 52° w/ severe lumbar stenosis & L2L3 lateral listhesis (side shift)
                          5/4/07 posterior fusion T2-L4 w/ laminectomies and osteotomies @L2L3, L3L4
                          Dr. Kim Hammerberg, Rush Univ. Medical Center in Chicago

                          Corrected to 15°
                          CMT (type 2) DX in 2014, progressing
                          10/2018 x-rays - spondylolisthesis at L4/L5 - Dr. DeWald is monitoring

                          Click to view my pics: pics of scoli x-rays digital x-rays, and pics of me

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                          • thanks, Susie Bee
                            spring WILL come...it has to...
                            tho i think winter will leave grudgingly....maybe with a final
                            kick for a good bye.
                            and with basketball championship this wkend and then
                            Westminster Dog Show Mon and Tues, it will be very busy
                            on Amtrak and very crowded in Manhattan

                            will take puppy to get fluids at vet today....
                            i am not doing them at home YET...tho i have all stuff to do it with

                            and i fear he has another cyst...
                            he just had surgery December 23rd and at the visit in January,
                            his vet drained another cyst she saw with ultra sound
                            and got with needle...

                            this is all too much...for puppy and for his momma...
                            he has vet appt Monday, Feb 16th...very scary.

                            jess...and Sparky

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                            • Jess,
                              I am so sorry that you have to delay your appointment again. I also hope that sweet Sparky doesn't have another cyst.
                              Karen

                              Surgery-Jan. 5, 2011-Dr. Lenke
                              Fusion T-4-sacrum-2 cages/5 osteotomies
                              70 degree thoracolumbar corrected to 25
                              Rib Hump-GONE!
                              Age-60 at the time of surgery
                              Now 66
                              Avid Golfer & Tap Dancer
                              Retired Kdgn. Teacher

                              See photobucket link for:
                              Video of my 1st Day of Golf Post-Op-3/02/12-Bradenton, FL
                              Before and After Picture of back 1/7/11
                              tap dancing picture at 10 mos. post op 11/11/11-I'm the one on the right.
                              http://s1119.photobucket.com/albums/k630/pottoff2/

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                              • thanks for the concern & encouragement, Karen.
                                all of the northeast is getting slammed this winter....seems Mother
                                Nature saved most of the snow for February, too

                                i am very concerned and will know more after appt Monday
                                with vet....

                                i hope you and little Lexi are warm, dry and safe...

                                jess...& Sparky
                                Last edited by jrnyc; 02-11-2015, 06:34 PM.

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