I am committed to writing every day until next week, but I really should have scheduled some posts ahead last week. I have chronic pain in my dominant elbow and causes an ending amount of distraction. I’d rather not be typing, but I’m stubborn.
I asked for alternative suggestions from one of the doctors I see because I am not seeing consistent relief. I’ve tried physical therapy, icing/heating, pain killers (they work, but at what cost), cortisone shots but nothing solves the problem. We manage to mask the symptoms until I don’t want to keep up with the regiment. The cortisone shot barely lasted a week and it would have been several more weeks before I could have another one. The alternative suggested to me was prolotherapy. A horribly brief summary: scar tissue too prevalent so inject a safe irritant so that my body will work on that area to break down and reconstruct it in a more beneficial manner. It sounds weird, but I have personal references from those who swear by it. I’ll try anything once, well, not anything, but some things. I haven’t investigated the above link as much I as would like, but I wanted to find a source that was not a doctor’s office promoting the cure.
I had an appointment this afternoon in Traverse City with a doctor willing to evaluate my elbow. The result of the evaluation required three injection sites in my elbow. Now I’m not a big fan of needles, but I swear the needle was at least a foot long. I admit it, it was more like two inches long, but the syringe held a lot of solution and I really wanted to not be there. There was a bit of discomfort but the pain was temporarily alleviated. The muscle in my forearm seems to be a bit stiff and a bit of pain is returning, but I was told to expect pain while the process is working. Time will tell, though I will not turn this blog into my personal medical history.
After the appointment, Jason and I detoured to a few shops and found a wonderful wok. We’ve been on the lookout for one and found a nice used one for a great price. I’ll let you know tomorrow how it works.
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