Have not been feeling well the last two days. I have horseness and sore throat.
Looks like the steroid injection is wearing off. I don't have any neck or arm pain, but I wake up with just a section of my right hand numb.
Rush Limbaugh made a great joke today:
What do Barrack Obama and God have in common?
Neither one of them have a birth certificate!
Monday, June 08, 2009
Well, the day arrived and I showed up at the neurosurgeon officer at 2pm for my neck steroid injections. Now, I have had several injections into a joints in the recent past. My most recent was in my right shoulder at the orthopod. However, I am a little anxious about this one - hell an 18 gauge into your neck very near you spinal cord!
I have confidence in the doc as he is probably 65 or so, so you know he has been doing this for a while. Also, this is the first joint injection guided via fluoroscopy.
I laid down on the table in prone position and a pillow under my chest. The tech rolled the fluoroscope over to the table and it encircled me. The doc pulled his chair to the head of the table - above my head. He cleaned the area and then entered some lidocaine.
The next thing was interesting - the doc enters a catheter on needle and withdraws the needle. The he injects the steroid. There was an electrical tingling down my left arm with the cath, but I only experienced pressure with the rest of the procedure.
They had me hang around for about 15 min to make sure that I did not have any reaction to the procedure.
At home about two hours later, I started to have a headache and my right arm was hurting more than usual. I took some Ibprofun but that did not seem to help. Went to bed about 11:00pm but could not sleep. Went downstairs and messed on the laptop until about 2:00am. Still could not sleep - having a pain in my right elbow that seems to be keeping me awake.
Went downstairs again and went to work on Susan's church videos.
I did not sleep at all.
I have confidence in the doc as he is probably 65 or so, so you know he has been doing this for a while. Also, this is the first joint injection guided via fluoroscopy.
I laid down on the table in prone position and a pillow under my chest. The tech rolled the fluoroscope over to the table and it encircled me. The doc pulled his chair to the head of the table - above my head. He cleaned the area and then entered some lidocaine.
The next thing was interesting - the doc enters a catheter on needle and withdraws the needle. The he injects the steroid. There was an electrical tingling down my left arm with the cath, but I only experienced pressure with the rest of the procedure.
They had me hang around for about 15 min to make sure that I did not have any reaction to the procedure.
At home about two hours later, I started to have a headache and my right arm was hurting more than usual. I took some Ibprofun but that did not seem to help. Went to bed about 11:00pm but could not sleep. Went downstairs and messed on the laptop until about 2:00am. Still could not sleep - having a pain in my right elbow that seems to be keeping me awake.
Went downstairs again and went to work on Susan's church videos.
I did not sleep at all.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Hampton Fire Div. promotion ceremony this afternoon at City Hall.
(First of all, I am disappointing cause I am shooting with the Nikon D-200. I had to send the D-300 in to Nikon for repair. She won't focus right.)
As usually, I arrived early to make sure all my stuff was in order.
Council chambers was crowded.
I am proud of all the promotes, but some even more so as I trained several of them.
Photos: http://photobucket.com/promotion_6-5-09
Others, well there is much to bee seen.
(First of all, I am disappointing cause I am shooting with the Nikon D-200. I had to send the D-300 in to Nikon for repair. She won't focus right.)
As usually, I arrived early to make sure all my stuff was in order.
Council chambers was crowded.
I am proud of all the promotes, but some even more so as I trained several of them.
Photos: http://photobucket.com/promotion_6-5-09
Others, well there is much to bee seen.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
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