“as well as the nifty coffee maker that you bought for Johnny”
He used that coffee maker every day - it was the only one he used after he got it. I have several, so simple for a cup of coffee. Since I have power, I use an electric one cup Hamilton Beach, cost $20+.
This coming Monday,orthopedic pain doctor will put me to sleep and put shots of steroids in my neck and shoulders. The cartilage between my neck bones has collapsed and narrowed the space for nerves to go through so there is pressure on the nerves that go through my shoulders down to my wrists. There is also some arthritic crap in my shoulders but the main pain is from the pressure on the nerves.
The pain is severe when I wake up and I can’t put on clothes or comb my hair or brush my teeth. I take a significant pain pill as soon as I get something in my stomach and about an hour later I can use arms a little bit. Doc said it may take three times for shots in neck to open up that space so nerves are not pressed. This has been getting worse for two months so it has to be fixed.
I have been wearing my pajamas all day because it hurts to move arms out of clothes and into other clothes. So that is the good part, wearing comfortable PJs all day. :o)
God Bless and Good Luck Marcella...
Praying for you Marcella. I know a little about the pain from nerve pressure-due to the sciatica. I’ve been a little lazy lately about doing my exercises, but I always sit on my pillow with cut out for the tail bone. I also use a firm pillow behind my back to help out.
Anti inflammation shots was what my doc was going to do. However, as we discussed it, I became concerned about the very possible adverse reaction. So he gave me some heavy duty anti inflammatory pills and pain pills. The anti inflammatory zapping that the chiropractor did was good too.
I sure hope that these treatments help-I know it’s got to be worse than I can imagine for you. I just feel lucky to be over the sciatica. Also lucky that they were able to get my c1 and c2 vertebra back in alignment.