I got a good excuse....

 It's been almost a month, I've been miserable .  I did exactly what I counsel people not to do, I had a nagging health problem and instead of getting it looked at I waited until it went code red. I guess being stupid that way is a classic 'guy thing' .

Last winter my neck went south one morning when Curt and I were fishing the rocks at the Holiday Inn. I was having horrible spasms that would radiate down my arm from the neck whenever I'd work it hard or reach for things , so I was left with stopping the activity that was triggering it....and you know how I hate to stop anything. Well the spasms began to come more often and finally a month ago it became chronic. If I reach or hold my arm up etc....I haven't driven a car or my bike in a month, the computer brings it on , if I trip or reach it's like getting a hold of  live 110 wire.

The MRI showed it is age and activity related spondylosis or osteo arthritis in the cervical area, degenerative spine disease....kinda the pinched nerve I thought would go away. My vertebrae at C5 and C6 are so rubbing that the doc doesn't think there is room to accept cortizone  for relief.....SO, I'm in Physical therapy in hopes of strengthening and loosening up the muscles that spasm after the bones rub. I've had 4 treatments now and at first I was skeptical but just today I'm feeling like it is helping and just maybe surgery can be avoided. 

As you can see my therapist Amanda knows the route. Not only was I cupped but I was also given a therapy with  what is called a ' cold needle ' that is a mono filament needle  that delivers a tenz like pulse of electricity directly into the muscle. And of course I have exercises that I do religiously at home. It's the worst pain I've ever experienced....but I'm finally feeling optimistic. I'm typing this on a new  chromebook allows me to type from my headrest recliner.

About the only thing funny that's happened is the mystery of how I got a BB into me at some time in my 70 years.  I've always had what me and MP thought was just a fatty cyst right below my rib cage. Well....when getting a MRI they are crazy about no metal in your body as it's a magnetic process that  would be dangerous to somebody with a metal knee of metal plate . So they X-Ray and walla, I got a BB  in me....So I contact my brother and asked if he remembers us having BB guns when were kids and of course he did....mmmm....now I ain't inspector Closeau but....

I'll get back to writing and of course we're headed to Mexico even I have to live on Salon Pas and Ben Gay....don't give up on us, we'll make Mile 14 fun....