my spine … on tap

Oooo-wee! have I been on a ride this week!

I had my spinal tap on Monday morning.  I won’t bore you with the gory details of the procedure, but two facts I want to share:

  1. I was warned there’s a 10% chance they could hit a nerve ending … and sure enough! they did.  It seriously felt like my bum was hit by lighting.  Fortunately, it only lasted a matter of seconds and was fine after that.
  2. Overall, the spinal tap wasn’t that bad … but seriously … ouch!

After it was over, I needed to stay in the hospital and rest for an hour or so.  And when I went home … as hard as it may be for some to believe … I actually went home and rested for the rest of the day.

So imagine my surprise when I woke up Tuesday in HORRIBLE pain!  Horrible.  Headaches can be a side effect … and I certainly had a bad one, but it was more than that.  I had this horrible neck pain that wouldn’t go away.  The nurse suggested I put frozen corn an ice pack on it, and take some Motrin.  I did both and neither helped.  In fact, the corn ice made it feel worse.

Wednesday I called begging to ask for pain meds … instead they switched me to Aleve and said I could call in two days if it wasn’t any better.  Nice.

CJ and I were scheduled in all day meetings Thursday and today.  I went Thursday morning and snuck out left after an hour.  I. Was. In. Pain!  I went home and immediately called the nurse again.  They had me come in right away.

Apparently, in about 2% of patients, the puncture point doesn’t close and therefore you continue to leak spinal fluid.  This fluid is needed to keep your brain and spine intact, so as I was leaking the fluid, there was extra pressure and therefore excruciating pain in my head {particularly my lower neck}.

To fix this, they needed to do a “blood patch.”  They set up an IV in my arm to extract about 20cc’s of blood that would be reinserted into my spinal area.  It was quite the procedure.  Everything needed to be done in an extremely sterile environment, as they were putting the blood back into my central nervous system.

Ouchie, ouchie, ouchie!  All kinds of crazy, weird pressure in my lower back … but the more pressure, the better the seal.  When they were done, I felt almost immediate relief in my head and neck!  My back?  Can barely walk, move, or turn about.

Again … had to lay around the hospital a bit and came home to lay in bed for the day.  My back is still pretty bad, but MUCH better than the head/neck pain was.  And the back pain is expected and should be better in a couple of days.

Anyway … I’d been tweeting and facebooking about some of this, so thought I’d share the story.  I had some really great people taking care of me … warm blanket, after warm blanket.  :)

One of the nurses even wrote me this prescription:

Oh! with my current history of making all these small percent of “chances” … anyone want me to buy them a lotto ticket?  :)

Happy weekend y’all!!  Until next week …

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