How is your day going?

osrbsj

lol @michael57 thanks! Thanks everyone for kindness feeling better tonight. It’s a bit weird but I often feel better once the day is over.

osrbsj

@LeftBehind hooe you feel better soon

older01

@Jimm_Scope

Thanks for taking the time to ask how everyone is ❤️

I had a full spinal x-ray yesterday for the first time in my eventful life! Apparently it’s a new x-ray machine that acts rather like a scanner. It was so quick and easy, and thanks to all the wonderful staff who volunteer at the hospital it was a pleasure to visit. I was curious to see my x-ray so I asked the radiographer for a peek. To my enormous surprise it also showed a 3D image of my entire body! I was shocked and a little horrified at how graphic it is, but I am very impressed with how well it works, and the time saved.
Rather than a series of x-rays and numerous hours of calculation by the medical professionals, the spine can be seen and any deformity is determined in one effort. So - I had a First! 🎉🎉

chiarieds

Evening everyone.

Is your guttering all sorted now @Sandy_123

Hope you're both feeling OK now @Schildpad & @osrbsj

Hope @michael57 is helping here - laughter really is the best medicine. I have this from the words of a very stern remedial gymnast that was in charge of a rehabilitation centre, & also had the misfortune of teaching us as physio students. Well, as she said, laughter uses your abdominal muscles, so that's good! I remember her yelling 'teapot' if she saw any of us standing with a hand on one hip. The penalty for such a misdemeanour was doing press ups, which I never could do. She also devised a psychological test for us as students, to see what may make a successful physio. The results were rather uncanny. How did this work out that my cupboards would be disorganised, but I'd be able to find anything in them? Not sure how that bit helped! It's taken decades, but my cupboards are (nearly all) organised.

Great to see you here @older01 - did the scan help in seeing the severity of your scoliosis? It sounds like they were happy to show you the scan. I do think it helps when you ask questions, so you got to take a peek. I hope you're keeping well.

Hi @Biblioklept - ever so pleased to see you posting, as ever.

Has anyone heard from @Marydoll5 ? - if you see this, I hope you're keeping well too.

Not forgetting @Lou67 - I hope both you & your Mum are doing OK.

Sandy_123

Hi @chiarieds hope your well, they decided not to put new guttering on, but to replace the brackets and hoover them. I'm waiting for rain to test them.

@older01 that scan sounds a good one.

older01

@chiarieds

How kind of you to remember that I have a scoliosis diagnosis!

After my years of constantly knocking on the medical doors, I have been seen by a consultant. He wasn’t as knowledgeable as I had hoped, and he seemed to be under the wrong impression that scoliosis surgery is usually performed for cosmetic purposes in most instances. He did fail me in most aspects of the consultation, but sending me for the full spinal x-ray turned out to be a good opportunity for me. I wrote to PALS after visiting him, and I held nothing back about how overlooked I felt. I was fast tracked to see another orthopaedic consultant in early December.
After my 5 minute consultation and subsequent complaint, he drafted a hastily worded letter which concurred that my curvature had worsened to 59 degrees in 2019. He added that I had an MRI at my local hospital which showed nerve impingement, but contracted it by saying that there didn’t appear to be any signs of stenosis?? As a header he said that it had been a pleasant meeting, adding a histrionic mental health diagnosis? I suppose that will help him to say that I am a neurotic patient etc.

I think that he underestimated my mental strength somewhat 😇❤️💪

chiarieds

Oof @Sandy_123 - hoped you'd get new guttering; can only hope the rain test works well! Thank you, I'm doing OK.

Of course I remember your scoliosis diagnosis @older01 - glory, how can a consultant think that scoliosis surgery is usually cosmetic! Well, I've met some Drs who were skeptical about my condition too, but the end result was also good. One rheumatologist said I wouldn't have osteoarthrosis (OA), but she'd send me for a scan, & did I want to see her afterwards. My answer was no, as why would I want to see her as she didn't think I had OA? The scan proved I had OA in all of my joints apart from my ankles!

Well, if you have nerve impingement, then stenosis is entirely possible. Have also been there, sadly (but about a different neurological problem), & have always thought that you can have an 'expert' consultant that knows an incredible amount about the limited sphere of their speciality, but seems to be otherwise lacking! Anyway, good to hear from you….hopefully you're getting there.