Patience is a virtue, or so I've been told...

So you would think after all this time I would be good at the waiting game, right?  Yea, not so much.  First I did get a call from the neurologist I want to switch to and am just waiting for him to sign off on taking me, so fingers crossed!! So I did physical therapy on Wednesday for my neck, at first I thought it went good.  She messaged the muscle and my range of motion opened up some and she gave me a couple of exercises to do at home. Then that night the pain kicked back in but like ten times worse to the point where I was up most of the night throwing up from it.  I have more pain in my left arm now and keep losing feeling in it then I did before the therapy.  And I went all day today with my face feeling like it was asleep.  Sure your thinking, Becky maybe it was just tired from being up all night throwing up!  But seriously, I have had these symptoms for weeks now and never have they lasted for this long of a period, it's really really scary. So the ortho Dr had said to call if the therapy didn't help or made the pain worse. So I called, and he ordered an mri.  Now of course the insurance has to approve it and they may not because I didn't give the therapy long enough of a try but seriously I don't intend to do therapy and then spend that night up in pain throwing up, know what I mean? Plus here I sit not throwing up but in pain still.  So we wait to find out if I can get the mri. Patience!

And speaking of pain, cause well my life does revolve around it. So my headache's are at their best (if you can call it best) when I am  lying down.  On the old scale of 1 to 10 it is generally a 2 to 3 when I am lying down.  When I first wake up in the morning for that first minute or so a 1 or a 2 if I am lucky.  But the minute I get up bam the headache pain shoots up and is worse when standing compared even to sitting.  And here is where the fun for me comes in.  Since doing the therapy my entire left side hurts more when I am lying down.  I would put it on a pain scale tonight of about a 9 to 10.  So do I sit up with a headache that right now is inching into a 10 or lay down with side pain, face, arm, ribcage, and shoulder blade area that is also in the 9 to 10 pain range.  I could try crying, but that makes everything hurt. Of course the dog doesn't have a problem sleeping she is snoring away, lucky! At least my Bosco has just come to sit with me, his purring is calming anyway!!