!!!!!!!!!UPDATE!!!!!!!!
News on my medical front...saw my pain management doctor Friday. They can’t do anything with the current treatment, so they are suggesting a spinal cord stimulator. It’s wires and a battery pack implanted. The wires go into the spinal column, the battery pack is implanted in the back of my hip and I would have a hand held unit to change the settings. The battery charger would be placed over the battery pack once a week using a belt to hold it in place. I will get a procedure to test it first, if...while on the table...I don’t feel anything positive, it’s taken off and we try something else (they wouldn’t elaborate...they said something, but wouldn’t repeat it)...if at first I think it might work, they tape it all down and let me try it for a week or two. If I like how it works, it’s surgically implanted...if not, it’s removed and go back to plan B
Also, I’m being told my wheelchair will be picked up by Friday as the insurance is refusing further rental of it. Can they really do that when my legs still won’t work?
Please pray for a miracle...and if anyone has had this procedure done with good or not good results, I’m begging you to tell me your experience with it...I’m a bit unsure about implanting an electrical device inside my body!
My preacher’s wife has one of those devices implanted, and it’s the only thing keeping her going. She broke her back years ago and is in unending pain without that unit. It might be a blessing for you, too!
God bless!
Thank you for keeping us informed, dear trussell - Jeepers, you are facing a lot these days. Prayers continue...
They tried to do something similar with a bladder unit on me, I turned them down flat after I dug into the blogs.
Because if the probe gets growth over it you are in WORSE condition than you are in now as IT cannot be REMOVED with out causing paralysis for life.
The woman who made our curtains has one of these. It works great for her. One caveat - one day she woke up and she couldn’t move. It had stopped working. I can’t remember if it was the battery or the device itself just died. Anyway, it took a few days for them to schedule the surgery, but she’s moving just fine again. I had never heard of these before, I find them fascinating.