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21 Jul 2011

Teddy’s New Back Brace

Teddy’s Gotta New Back Brace!

So after waiting three years, and being tested, poked, and prodded for years by two Neurologists, three Pain Doctor Specialists, three Neurosurgeons, three Primary Care Physicians, a Parkinson’s Neurologist, and a leading Multiple Sclerosis Neurologist, it was a simple Physical Therapy Prosthetic Technician who figured out what kind of back brace (a “TLSO”) that I actually needed to support my back properly to help ease my daily pain!

Teddy’s New Brace!

Amy is her name. She works at Hanger Prosthetics. And as an added bonus, she said that EVERYONE that she “prescribes” this “TLSO” to their Neurologists, or that she “installs” this “TLSO” onto people, generally lose a lot of weight while wearing this brace. She took about 50 measurements of my body, so my brace is actually custom molded to my body now. I also have to wear it so tight that I can hardly breath – that’s the only way to keep my back actually fully supported, all nice and straight, and tightly bound upright.

Nice-n-Tight!

As I’ve gone back and forth with my meetings with Amy, she’s been telling me about this aspect of the “TLSO” and I was always doubtful. I mean, how could wearing a back brace alone make you lose weight? My Neurologist wanted me in a back brace so that I could walk more because I cant walk very far before my back gives out. The first brace he prescribed, a “Jewitt,” didn’t even fit my body type, and they ordered two different types; Man that was a TOTAL waste of time, and it cost Sheri and I over $100 in cab fair with me going back and forth to doctor appointments for a waste-o-time-back-brace-piece-o-shit! Well, I am a Convert Now. I am a True Believer Now! I take two bites of food and drink a sip of whatever I’m drinking to wash it down and I’m full. Actually!, I can hardly swallow the bites of food and I can hardly wash it down!!! And after I’ve eaten a few bites of food, I start breathing heavy like I just ran a mile because my stomach is now full and is fighting for space with my lungs inside the hard plastic clamshell that I’m locked down inside! LOL!!!

I’m so Full!

I CAN’T BREATH!




Does my ass look smaller?

 

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26 Jan 2011

Paracentral Disc Protrusion – Say What?

I just had an MRI of my Thoracic Spine on the 18th. That’s the middle part of my back that has been screaming in pain ever since that butthead rear-ended me on the freeway 2 years ago. Sometimes, for example, when I pick up a jug of milk, I have a slicing pain that cuts me in two right at my Thoracic area where my back hurts, right about at the bottom of your ribcage is a good marker, and when I get that pain, I can’t breathe, from that point all the way down to my feet goes numb and I can’t feel anything and I almost fall.

I’m not gonna give you guys a lesson in reading MRI Reports, so here’s the short version. (T# are different vertebrae – Google it)

T5-T6: 4 mm disc protrusion

T6-T7: 10-11 mm disc protrusion

T7-T8: 9 mm disc protrusion

T8-T9: 3-4 mm disc protrusion

I have an appointment to go see a Neurosurgeon to discuss back surgery.

What does all this mumbo-jumbo mean? Well, it means things like the crap inside my back are pressing on my spinal cord. When shit presses on your spinal cord, it shuts off access from where whatever that nerve is connected to the brain. As an example, for me, a small 1 millimeter change in the pressure has caused me to not be able to digest food properly. If it is not fixed, my intestines will shut down and rot inside my torso and will eventually have to be removed.

 

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