Howdy everyone,
You may, or may not, have noticed I havent been around as much. Well I am going to tell you all why.
First off, many of you know that I have had bad sciatic nerve pain for many years. It saps my engery and makes me a generally cranky bastard. It has also made it real hard to strap on 20lbs worth of gear and go run around and shoot people.
Well I got a fire lit under my bum lately and have been fighting to find out WHAT is wrong with me.
In the past I have tried surgery, cortozone shots, physical therapy, accupuncture, chiropractic, drugs, and just doing nothing. None of those things really helped. Well the drugs did - but they dont want me on them.
So in this recent bout, I have had a CT scan, and an MRI and talked with 4 nerosurgeons. For awhile I had a scare as they thought I had a Schwannoma - which is basically a tumor on a nerve sheath in your spine. But it turns out its most likely a harmless cyst filled with spinal fluid. (isnt medicine fun).
Anyway - no one knows what is wrong with me. They have eliminated some of the nastier things it could be though - so thats good. I have a couple more test they can do to see how the nerves in my body acutally work.
All of this leads up to me going to the Mayo Clinic. I am going to the one in Rodchester, MI. It is suppposed to be the BEST hospital for neuro science in the world. If any one can figure out why I hurt its these guys!
So - being that we at AO have been through so much I thought I would just share some of my private life. I have already mentioned it to some of the people in the chat room.
I leave April 20th and I dont know how long I will be gone (a few days to a week probably).
Also - when I get back, I will work on making AO a bit more home like. I think that Rich just used the default settings when upgradding AO. I kinda like the layout, but I should be able to go in and change the colors etc to make it a bit more like the old AO. Hopefully I will be out of pain and can sit down and stay up late to get it done for you all.
So - wish me luck and Ill post when I know more!
You may, or may not, have noticed I havent been around as much. Well I am going to tell you all why.
First off, many of you know that I have had bad sciatic nerve pain for many years. It saps my engery and makes me a generally cranky bastard. It has also made it real hard to strap on 20lbs worth of gear and go run around and shoot people.
Well I got a fire lit under my bum lately and have been fighting to find out WHAT is wrong with me.
In the past I have tried surgery, cortozone shots, physical therapy, accupuncture, chiropractic, drugs, and just doing nothing. None of those things really helped. Well the drugs did - but they dont want me on them.
So in this recent bout, I have had a CT scan, and an MRI and talked with 4 nerosurgeons. For awhile I had a scare as they thought I had a Schwannoma - which is basically a tumor on a nerve sheath in your spine. But it turns out its most likely a harmless cyst filled with spinal fluid. (isnt medicine fun).
Anyway - no one knows what is wrong with me. They have eliminated some of the nastier things it could be though - so thats good. I have a couple more test they can do to see how the nerves in my body acutally work.
All of this leads up to me going to the Mayo Clinic. I am going to the one in Rodchester, MI. It is suppposed to be the BEST hospital for neuro science in the world. If any one can figure out why I hurt its these guys!
So - being that we at AO have been through so much I thought I would just share some of my private life. I have already mentioned it to some of the people in the chat room.
I leave April 20th and I dont know how long I will be gone (a few days to a week probably).
Also - when I get back, I will work on making AO a bit more home like. I think that Rich just used the default settings when upgradding AO. I kinda like the layout, but I should be able to go in and change the colors etc to make it a bit more like the old AO. Hopefully I will be out of pain and can sit down and stay up late to get it done for you all.
So - wish me luck and Ill post when I know more!
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