Josh’s 2nd spinal update
Well, Josh had his 2nd spinal yesterday. It didn’t go very smoothly. He’s doing good today though. It took a little longer than expected. We were getting worried. When they finally brought him back down, Josh said they had a hard time finding the right spot to put the needle and had to poke him several times in the process. Then they hit a nerve that shot pain down his right leg. At one point he said he actually heard like a scraping noise. I had the doctor come by our room to ask him what the problem was. He said that he did hit Josh’s bone at one point but it wouldn’t hurt him in the long run. He said that because Josh is thicker than a lot of the patients here that it is harder to find the right spot to inject him. Apparently, we can expect it to take this long for the next 2 injections also. I wasn’t too thrilled to here about the bone scraping. Hopefully next time they will be more careful. I will definately relay that message. We haven’t got his schedule for next week yet, but we are assuming his next spinal will probably be Monday. We may try and get out a little today. It has been raining almost non-stop for 2 days now. It is very gloomy here 99% of the time. We didn’t realize there were mountains around us for the first 4 or 5 days we were here because of the fog. Some people are talking about going to the mountains with one of the translators to see some of the tourist sites. Today that really doesn’t sound like much fun. I don’t want Josh to overdue it so shortly after a spinal. He is getting acupuncture right now. He’s feeling pretty good except for a little back pain. He has a couple of bruises on his back though. I guess I’ll get off here and go get him. Talk at cha later
mo, mom and josh
8 comments July 24th, 2008
