Josh’s SCI/China Blog

Survivor: The Tribe hath spoken we want Internet!

September 19th, 2008

 Day 2: Still no internet! I feel like we have been going in circles for hours I am lost and scared * goes into hysterics with snot running down his nose in a bad blair witch project spoof*
What was that sound!? it sounds like…. Still no internet! the patients have been going absolutely bonkers with no internet, they cannot contact their familys without paying a hella lot of money.
Today it should be fixed but I will be out of it most of the day since today is my first Spinal Injection, From 11:00am (during therapy too) to like 7 or 8 I am cut off from water and food and
I have to lay still for 6 hours So I am hoping I can sleep through most of it. I am gonna ask them if they can make me all loopy on Valium If I don’t ask I know its going to come back on me and bite me on the ass.
Well, the Lumbar area really , but I will get to that later. This morning they put the IV in my arm before therapy so I had to work with a IV in my hand it was a real distraction as I don’t think it was put in
correctly, but I lived. I keep getting stronger everyday and my Balance is much improved, I don’t have much pain in my right hip anymore thanks to Owen, He is my PT he is amazing and his massage/accupuncture
is to die for. Everyone is so nice and kind here and the staff does not accept tips! So I am going to try and get some little souviners back home and give it to them.

 We are going to Polar World tomorrow!!!! do you know what that means!? DOLPHINS!!!! <3<3<3  for those of you who know me Dolphins are my favorite Aquatic animal! ( Yeah, I even freaked out when I found out my shower in my room
has Dolphin curtians!!) I hope I can play with the dolphins while I am there, but just being able to see them would make me happy! we are also going to be around a shopping mall and the beach coastline so this trip will be awsome
I can’t wait!
 Well, I had the spinal injection around 2:30-3:30pm we going to the room I felt much anxiety and I was really scared, it reminded me of when I went to have my fateful surgery 9 years ago
I asked them to give me something to relax and they put Valium into my IV, it felt like my entire arm was going to blow up! but when it thinned out the pain in my arm was gone but that was about it. I couldent relax
and it did nothing to relax me ( Next time they are going to give me stronger stuff let me tell you! I want my body to be on the table and my ‘inner self’ to be 20 or so feet above)
The changes I have gotten from the Spinal Injection #1 are as follows ( Fyi I am getting 9 injections via IV and via Spinal, so far I have had 1 of each so 7 more to go!)
I have gotten a increase in appitite , It’s like they have gave me Miracle-grow or something, or like a pot head would have the ‘munchies’ whatever it is I hope it stops soon,
or I will come back to the states with like 300+ lbs! other changes include some form of sensitivity to the cold and many tingling warm feelings throughout my middle back, down to my feet.
The doctors say that is the stems cells at work so lets hope for the best !

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