#scoliosiscansuckit

[texicanincheeseland-blog]

Just call me Chueca

I would like to begin by apologizing for my recent vaguebooking. I hate it when people do that and now I am guilty of it myself. I AM CURRENTLY FINE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE FINE. I apologize for worrying y’all. Life is good here in Sconnieland.

I am on a journey right now and am looking forward to the destination, I think. At the very least, I am looking forward to not being on the journey anymore. I have had leg pain for going on 6 months now. It has not gotten worse or better, just different over the past 6 months. It moves from leg to leg, from muscular to skeletal, and from dull to aching to electrifying. Sometimes it is just an annoyance and sometimes (not super often) it is stabbing. I have tried running, and not running. Nothing changes. 

I found out about 2 weeks ago that I apparently was born with congenital scoliosis and it was never found. Therefore, it caused degenerative scoliosis. This has caused bone spurring and degenerative disc disease in my lower lumbar spine. This was actually a little bit of good news. It told me I was not imagining everything. The facets (openings) in my vertebrate that allow the nerves to exit off the spinal cord into my lower extremities have gone from dime sized to pin hole sized (approximations). Though this sounds terrifying, people go through it everyday. Most of these people go through it after 60, but what can I say? I am advanced.

Anyway, the doctors I see continue to get more and more specialized and now I am at the point that I need a recommendation from a neurosurgeon. For those of you thinking, neurosurgeon, doesn’t he just work on brains? Watch some Grey’s Anatomy. Neurosurgeons work on brains and spines. It is all connected. They also do not just do surgery, they do injections, CT scans, and more. According to Grey’s they even dance some. :) I have no idea what my options are yet because I do not yet have an official diagnosis beyond the two kinds of scoliosis. 

With all of that being said, I am fine. The pain is mostly manageable right now and I feel lucky to have insurance and supportive people around me. Life is good here and I am most worried about winter. IT IS COMING!

So again, sorry about the vaguebooking, I am fine. Thank you all for the concern. We all go on journeys and luckily mine is nothing I cannot handle. In the meantime, I will try to learn to answer to Chueca.