Breeders

I've decided to let 3 pair of breeders lay in hopes that I will be able to work them in around my next, as yet unscheduled procedure. These will be some of my favorite Sion strain. Keep my fingers crossed and see what happens!

More Precedures

Well on the 9Th I went into the pain specialist for a caudal epidural injection to help dissolve scar tissue on my spinal cord so that when the permanent spinal cord stimulator is installed it will hopefully maximize the performance and therefore relief. Yesterday felt like I had been given a series of Kidney punches by someone that knew what they were doing. Today it's just really sore, tomorrow should be better!

Real Bummer!!

Well they took the temporary unit out last Friday and by the time we had driven back home everything had crashed as far as the progress it had given me. Now I'm really looking forward to the permanent unit. I had felt good enough that I tackeled tasks that I just didtn't have the ambition to do before. I have to wait a month before the new installation and I can't wait!!

Progress

Well now that I've been reprogramed it's definitely making a difference on my level of constant pain. It's much lower, which is what the doctors were wanting to see. This might actually work, I presently have 4 programs to choose from and I am using different ones for long periods to see how well I tolerate them. Depending on the pain I have on a certain day I may sometimes need to vary the stimulation due to my body becoming adjusted to one program. They have to take it back out tomorrow, since this is a temporary unit, bummer!

The Trial Run

Today was disconcerting. The spinal cord stimulater did not seem to be working as expected. When I would increase the stimulation to where my back was getting some good stimulation, my legs would do a Saint Vitas dance which eventually became painful and I would have to turn it off. To shorten along story, I finally called Andy at Boston Scientific and explained my problem. He offered to meet me on the fly as it were as he was going from one place to another, to check it out. He was wonderful, he reprogramed my unit and restored my hope that this would help me have some real progress in dealing with my back pain. We shall see what we shall see.

Big Day!

Today was a big day. I was implanted with a temporary spine core stimulator. This will be used in hopes of blocking or interferring with my back pain signals being sent to my brain in the hopes of reducing my medication load. That would be excellent! As the saying goes, Time will tell!