Sometimes I think the universe hates me. Just as I was crawling out from under a whole pile of crap and back to writing, I managed to herniate 2 discs in my neck. In the New Adventures Karen Has Had, that meant an MRI. Wow. Now I know I could probably survive 20 mins of torture. The noise the machine makes is actually really interesting. It started sounding like a kind of urban percussive classical music piece. But the position I had to maintain revved the ole neck up something severe. Sob. Whimper.
I have Serious Drugs. I have a chair I can sit in without screwing the neck or the back. I have an appointment with a specialist, who please God will tell me he can fix me without surgery. If I can get the pain to settle down, I might even have some writing because not doing that is starting to send me mad.
So, yeah. Not the news I wanted to share.
In my experience, when something medical happens, people all rush in to tell you about something similar and how horrible it was. So I want to tell you that a friend of mine herniated two discs in her neck, and did indeed recover without any surgery. Good luck and I hope you have as easy and quick a recovery as possible.
That’s great to know, Nandi. Thank you for the heartening news! Yesterday was good, but today is bad again. Sigh.