It’s been 4 months since my last round of Radio-Frequency Ablation, and my back pain triggers bending to turn on a faucet.
That’s not good. That’s bad. The shortest I’ve gone between procedures has been 9 months.
At an appointment last week with Lexington Pain and Spine Institute, I was scheduled for another MRI. I like MRIs. They’re a nice fake nap, and the noise shuts down my thinking about anything else.
My fkn spine is a liability – specifically the trashed vertebral disks between L4-L5 and L5-S1. A nurse once told me the way she was taught in Anatomy to memorize the number of vertebrae in the backbone was “Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner” where 7am is breakfast time, 12 is lunch time and 5 is dinner time. From the top: the cervial spine has 7 bones (vertebrae); thoracic spine has 12; lumbar spine has 5; and the sacrum also has 5. Now that I think about it, maybe it should be “breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack”….?
The MRI is Wednesday. It’ll be 3 years since my last one that was probably 3 years too late. We’ll see the damage and the NP-C says might go with epidural steroid injection for treatment.