I guess it's been about 5 weeks since I hurt my back. I've been attending two physiotherapy appointments and two massage therapy appointments weekly. I've been limited in the activities I can do around the house, with Mister and just life in general.
Last week, for the first time in over a year I felt it. That's right, "it". The nerve pain in my right arm. The nerve pain I endured for 1.5 years from a work injury back in 2009. The pain no doctor could identify. The pain without a cure...except time. Back then, at about the one-year mark, I went for an electromyography (EMG) which turned up nothing...but the technician who performed the test told me the best piece of information I'd gotten all along...nerve damage takes about 1.5 years to heal...and she was right. About six months later I began to feel better and the pain disappeared.
It's back and I have no idea what triggered it. It could be a way I moved my head, a position I slept in, who knows? Maybe I favored some part of my neck due to my back pain? It is caused be something going on in my neck, and the pain is referred down the nerve in my right arm. Regardless, I am upset that it is back..and that's putting it mildly.
With the back pain I am suffering, and all the limitations it's imposed on me, this is the LAST thing I needed. I was already struggling to deal with being a mom who is limited in her ability to care for her child, a wife who is limited in her ability to be a contributing partner in marriage. Now, this just intensifies things.
Can I endure another year and a half of this nerve pain? Goodness, I pray that's not the case! Please God...heal my body so I can be an active mom with my son and so I can contribute to my marriage in all the ways I want to!
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