Myelopathy is a neurological disorder caused by the compression or injury of the spinal cord. It leads to widespread symptoms like pain, muscle weakness, numbness, and poor balance. Left untreated, it can result in permanent nerve damage, making timely diagnosis crucial.

I keep forgetting, I am the one that made the diagnosis and the neurologist agreed and then COVID hit!!!

We were on Hawaii and by now, I have had my memory trigger in 2017 and by the time 2019 rolled around… I knew what had happened to me and who had done it and who helped hide the evidence…

I got the VA to send me to a neurologist and every 6 months I went in with a list of questions and he would answer them and that was it… No treatments, no drugs…

Just answers!!!

I wasn’t interested in medications, because I knew, I was dealing with injuries that were as old as I was at that time and reality… Nothing much was going to give me relief, because of the repeated assaults by my parents and my sister using me to toss around when she was taking Judo… (Real nice christians!!!)

Come this fall, when I go in for my checkup, I will have the kid refer for a MRI of my lower spine and see if that myelopathy is where I am having dizziness from…

I know when it’s my neck… I had a breast reduction done, because I thought that was the cause and come to find out… I had stenosis in my neck and spine… I have had it since I was a kid…

I put my neck in traction a few days ago and I am pushing the disc back into place and I sound like a popcorn machine as C1-thru C7 snap and pop, my lower spine area, not as easy to get it in position to take pressure off the nerves…

This is something I have lived with since the central spinal cord injury my mother gave me before I was 2 years old… Military, VA and private doctors… None figured it out… I did!!!

So far I am batting an average of 100%… I know the myelopathy is there, because of all the other information I have about my lower quadrant… plus, I have a neurologist who didn’t think I needed testing, he agreed I had it, just by the symptoms… sigh……………..

So that is why my world won’t quit spinning…

The neck is aligned and I will always have to push disc back into place, but the dizzy caused by my neck is different from the dizzy caused by my lower back…

This means… I have been sitting too much… Not active enough to keep from causing the inflammation to get worse… I have 900mg of Insaids and tylenol and flexaril… those help me, nothing else they ever gave me helped, usually just made me puke or sleep non stop… I’ll deal, like I always deal… and have for over 69 years….

So that’s where my head is at… What I need to do, to keep from feeling like I need to puke, every time I get up and move… Now, imagine living that way and not knowing why or how or who or what!!!!

As for everything else… Homer is holding his own… Sometime we have more confusion, and we are adjusting to how we handle those moments and sometimes it’s good and sometimes I want to drop and curl up in a ball and I am not the one with dementia!!! So he doesn’t feel any better about his disease…

As for the family drama… I really haven’t decided and won’t decide till the day of court, on how I will handle this… (Homer’s health does not play into my decision either)… This decision has to be me and only me… based on my morales, ethics, laws and constitution… there is no feeling of love or family… Just disgust…

The day is up and going and I have some specific stuff to do and get back on my schedule so I avoid the dizzy… My neck, and my lower back… That’s all Freda and Don!!!

Have a wonderful day… we are hitting over a 100 with heat index and humidity… yuck…

I remember…

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