Cheryl’s SCI Stem Cell Treatment Blog

Sensation

April 27th, 2007

Today, like many days, I had a back massage with a vibrating type device. My PSW was only bringing it part way down my back before resuming direction. I kept asking her to go lower as that was where my back hurts. After several requests she finally reached the afflicted area. She then asked my why I wanted that area massaged as it was where I had no feeling. With lot’s of excitement, we then started experimenting as to just how far and where I could now feel that.

Sensation, both finger tip and heavy pressure, at one time was right at the base of my surgical scar. (T-12). Today, I was able to feel the massager in a normal fashion to right below the base of the tail bone. I could still feel it on my buttocks but it had a more faded or secondary vibration type of sensation. It also felt wonderful when dragged right over my lumbars, something I haven’t experienced since before the accident. We also determined that finger tip sensation was now 3/4 of an inch below the scar.

I’m considering getting a very small tattoo of a horseshoe, both for good luck and for my horse Robbie, placed right at the old and the new sites of sensation. I’m not a huge fan of tattoo but I think it would be great to have a permanent record of exactly where feeling stops and starts. It would be sort of like a display of the steps taken in the exciting journey.

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