Ice and Expectation Sept 4, 2011

Began icing neck in earnest again yesterday and it likes it, it really does.

Meanwhile, sleeping on my back or side is just impossible.
I wake up on my stomach and tell myself I must turn over but then I hear myself say, "I can't. I am sleeping!"

So, what can you do? How much arguing with your asleep self can you do?

Meanwhile, I realize I wake up each day expecting my neck to be better and I don't understand why it is not.

I guess I expect it to magically heal in my sleep.

Obviously I am going to have to change my expectation.

C 6 and C 7 herniated Sept 2, 2011

Been just having a terrible time with the neck pain.
Had PT session 2 a week ago but then went and played mini golf for about twenty minutes and then had the hurricane and then my period and a migraine all at once and so forth, and my neck was very unhappy. Cancelled PT 3 as I was on migraine meds and ibuprofen and just couldn't add anything more.

Well today was tough as i had been up all night again in pain and then forgot i had another 1600 dollars in medical bills i had to pay which gave me a deep shudder

but then i rallied and said i only have this one life i cannot give up

so i called Dr. Ponti and my MRI results were in so I picked them up on the way to PT session 3

and i must also thank my sweet mate P for being so comforting today when I was feeling so bereft

so the MRI results which recall were done a full month before my neck blew out, looked good, Except for

"C6-C7 level: There is a small right posterior-lateral disc protrusion contouring the ventral thecal sac without apparent cord impingement."

so that Is where my pain and agony is and where the heat emanates and what doesn't want to be touched and where I feel knives stabbing me

so I must have just blown that out entirely

so at least I am clear on this= Must Heal Annular Ring. Must re grow protective coating.


Last night I had begun taking cal/magnesium again because I think I need a lot more building blocks.

Matt the kind PT guy said he would ease off of my therapy today and he wants me to rest and reduce back down from 4 kinds of exercises to only 2, and and the two are just
Chin Tucks
and Postural Alignment when sitting.


The Session was good.

Then P and I went to Cranbury to drop his broken camera lens off at Cannon.
We walked the streets and were sad to see the Blue Rooster had been flooded by the hurricane and was closed. I had a slice of pizza at Cranbury Pizza, we had icecream next door, we walked at the cemetery and then browsed in the Book Worm.

Returning home I read online that someone recommends ice, only sleeping on back or sides (impossible for me as i can only sleep on my stomach) (when i can sleep at all) and bouncing on a therapy ball for five minutes a day.


I am determined to heal.


September 2, 2011