Something New

So after everything that I had just gone through I never expected what was going to be thrown at me next.

But let me go back a little.  After all the surgeries and therapy I was finally better.  I was so happy.  In April 2008 I finally walked down the isle, in July of 2008 I found out I was pregnant and in March 2009 we were blessed with Charlie.  He is such a happy, healthy little boy.  The light of my life.  My pregnancy was in a word AMAZING! I was so happy and healthy I had no problems, or nausea or anything that most women experience.  I wasn't even that uncomfortable.  I thought it was strange but after everything that I had been through I felt I deserved it.  Charlie was born in March of 2009 and the next year was amazing.  He changes so much everyday and I am blessed to be able to be here with him and witness it.  A few more wonderful months go by and then we come to September 2010.  I hadn't been doing anything out of the ordinary just sitting on my sofa watching T.V.  Charlie was down for the night and I was enjoying some me time.  I noticed something strange.  The thumb and pointer finger on my left hand were a little numb and tingling like when your foot falls asleep and is trying to wake up.  Well I immediately thought of my neck.  Sometimes even though I have had this surgery I still have complications from it.  So most of the time it's positional.  I changed position, put on my neck brace and decided it was nothing and went to bed.  The next day things were different.  It wasn't just 2 fingers it was all of them and the palm of my hand too.  Well again I didn't think anything of it until it got worse.  Over the next week it spread to my entire arm and then my entire left side.  I really didn't know what to think now but given all my past experiences I was still thinking it was my neck.

I made an appointment with my Primary Care doctor and he agreed that it was most likely my neck and I needed an MRI.  The MRI came back and did show evidence of another bulging disc in my neck.  Well that was the answer right?  Not really.  I wasn't able to go back and see my old surgeon because of insurance problems so I went back to where I started 9 years ago.  The doctor that I ended up seeing was very adamant about the fact that he didn't think what was going on this time was related to my neck.  The reason for this is that by this time the numbness and tingling wasn't just my left side it included my face, neck and head.  He truly believed that the problem was higher up but he ordered a CT scan just in case maybe some of the hardware from my fusion had broken off and was compressing the nerve.  Well this wasn't the case and he referred me to a Neurologist who would later tell me something I never expected in a million years.