Post-ESI doctor’s visit results
Val went back for a brief post-epidural steroid injection check-up this week. She told me the shots would be a success if she could touch her elbows together. She says never to take range of motion for granted. On the way to Beaufort County Hospital to her appointment, I asked, “Well, can you touch elbows?”
“Yup.” And she did. Injections? A success. Val’s doctor reminded her, “I didn’t cure you. You are NOT cured. What you are is in less pain. You cannot do any more than you could before, remember that.”
“No raking?” Val asked.
“Of course not.”
Wanted to let people know that these steroid injections work for Val who has some really nasty damage to her cervical disks from an early onset degenerative disc disease that started bitch-slapping her spine in the early 1980s. She has lumbar fusion, had it done in 1989. No problems from that, to this day. Amazing? Yes, she is.
