I too was sorry to hear about your Mom. I lost my mother when I was 42 and my dad when I was 37. My mother also was an artist and as a child I went to sleep every night listening to her play classical music on our piano. I still miss them but it does get a lot easier with time. They both died of primary brain tumors.
I had pain in the cervical part of my spine in the early 90's and found out that 3 of my vertebra were fusing on their own. When they completed fusing the pain went away but I do not have good movement of my neck. I have severe degeneration in the rest of my cervical spine and was fused from T4-sacrum 8 months ago. Dr Lenke told me that my fusion might indeed aggravate my neck issues but I had to have the fusion as my curve was progressing significantly. Eight months before my fusion I started having problems with my right arm which were said to be coming from problems at the C5/C6 level by a local surgeon. I waited a month without treatment and it went away on it's own. I know I will probably have more problems because of my neck again at some point. My son bought a used inversion table but it did not help me and I felt it probably had the potential to cause harm. Sleeping on a cervical neck pillow years ago did help with the pain in the upper part of my cervical spine until the vertebra fused and then I no longer needed it. Hope you get some relief soon!
Jane
I had pain in the cervical part of my spine in the early 90's and found out that 3 of my vertebra were fusing on their own. When they completed fusing the pain went away but I do not have good movement of my neck. I have severe degeneration in the rest of my cervical spine and was fused from T4-sacrum 8 months ago. Dr Lenke told me that my fusion might indeed aggravate my neck issues but I had to have the fusion as my curve was progressing significantly. Eight months before my fusion I started having problems with my right arm which were said to be coming from problems at the C5/C6 level by a local surgeon. I waited a month without treatment and it went away on it's own. I know I will probably have more problems because of my neck again at some point. My son bought a used inversion table but it did not help me and I felt it probably had the potential to cause harm. Sleeping on a cervical neck pillow years ago did help with the pain in the upper part of my cervical spine until the vertebra fused and then I no longer needed it. Hope you get some relief soon!
Jane
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