Speaking of Pixies, Dick, you can tell them to just Gouge Away - but your mind's where you want it to be. Keep up the good spirits - you made it thru this much, might as well double down - "is that all you got?"

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You sound great. Keep moving and the neck should feel better.

You are way behind on Dayly Awards but crouching over a computer on Dag is probably bad for the cervicals, so don't worry about catching up. Sounds like you have a fantastic family!

Keep hope alive on the neck thing! I betcha it's from being in the hospital bed, laying different that you did before. If you didn't have much problem with your neck before, know of what I speak. And I also know that when some docs are wont to say "it's arthritis,deteriorating spine live with it" they are wrong. \

Mine was a side effect from extensive fucked up dental, I went from pinched nerve to nearly total paralysis of neck, I swear. So I get the MRI, the neurologist, others say "oh my god you have terrible arthritis in your neck". I am going but huh how come it never bothered me before, does "arthritis" happen all of a sudden like that?

I was so miserable with it for months, and trying all the stupid drugs that didn't work with that.

Went to some lousy crooked physical therapists, the only ones I could find on my insurance, for months, with not much  relief. Watched a lot of videos on You Tube by experts on the right exercises to do  that they weren't giving me. Finally found a great chiropractor, since he spoke the right wholistic words, I stayed with him six months. IT''S GONE, MY NECK IS BACK TO THE WAY IT ALWAYS WAS! The truth is: orthopedic docs and neurologist docs know little about where actual spinal pain comes from. They see some atypical shit on the imaging, they make the correlation/causation error. This is why lots of back surgey is a big fail. In actuality pain/stiffness does not correlate to that squished disc or whatever that they have been taught in med school to see, this probably happens the majority of the time!

Anyhow, mine, it took like a year but it went away with this chiropractor's help and constantly trying to readjust sleeping situation at the sametime. Supposedly uncurable arthritis in my neck: gone.

UNFORTUNATELY, HAH, welcome to getting old, with me, we have now moved onto my hips, with newly diagnosed supposedly uncurable arthritis diagnosis from you guessed it, another MRI.

Which I am now convinced, looking back, seeing the symptoms grow,  occurred from changing my posture (of a worn down aged messed up spine) to accommodate for the stiff painful neck. We'll see. Doing both physical therapy and chiropractor this time, intensively.

I figure that for you: you got so many new cleaned up body parts that it is definitely worth believing Dr. Arta on the internet that you should not presume your neck cannot get better.I haven't even gone there yet.

Speaking of doctors on the internet, If you can't find a good physical therapist or chiropractor that is covered, go to YouTube. They are there--great ones, top guys who have helped a lot of people--give you all the tools to diagnose yourself and the right exercises to reverse the problem if you just force yourself to keep at them. Don't give up--I know having a stiff painful neck is miserable, but I believe and they also do that it can get better. Plus you spent too much time on cleaning yourself up to give up now.

Dear Dick...

I've been MIA for months from Dag due to exactly what you have described here:

The experience of simply getting dressed in the morning became more difficult.

Over the last two years, I had difficulty walking more than a mile.

I would find myself out of breath.

I would find myself in cold and hot sweats.

I would find my limbs sore and almost disabled.

I would find my mind without aim or purpose.

Beginning in May or June, I could not walk two blocks without severe problems.

Now Dick, I promise you, I'm off to the cardio-pulmonologist for a cardiac assessment post haste.

~OGD~

Well, gee.

It is good to know folks are taking care of themselves.

For what it's worth, I am still rocking the dialysis clinic three times a week.  So far, I have outlived the national  5 year average of surviving kidney failure by two and a half years.  My friend Andy has been a patient there for 14 years.  So, I ain't worried too much.  Plus it pisses off the health insurance companies that I don't have the decency to die and stop costing them so much money.

Hehehe

Anyhoo, I'm glad to hear from Mr. Day and Ducky and the rest and to learn of your triumphs.

Wow... Dick!? reviving this.

I just found my saved reply in my old computer files.

As dick said: "We are all dying."

Say that three times, slowly

~OGD~