Hi Serena!
Our church has surprisingly lots of young parents and kids.
Hi Chloe!
You get the idea. It's quite certain now. Yep, we'll be back next year for good, though most reluctantly on my part... sniff!
Hi Sarah and moshi2!
Had my first session of acupuncture today. Quite pleasant. An instant relief of left shoulder ache and headache is gone too. But acupuncture will remain as pain management therapy because it cannot correct any morphological problems. The most important thing now is what the doc decides to do after the MRI.
Had MRI today too. Cost 800 Eur! Read the radiologist's report, but can't exactly understand it fully. Something like the beginning of a degeneration caused by an uncinate process. Apparently, my vertebrae are beginning to protrude and cause irritation to my nerves, esp towards the left side, thus my left shoulder pain... Now what that actually means in layman terms and what other impacts that have on me, I really need to wait out for the orthopedics to explain in details to me... that's all I understood from my limited medical knowledge for now.
I think I should start researching.
One doc in TTH did tell my mom before that it can happen to everyone, it's just the degree of degeneration and how it affects the person's life.
So hmmm... you wanna look up an orthopedics too? Best thing would be going through a recommendation from a polyclinic, lest medical charges will be astronomical.
Gee, I just ran a search on the internet and there are tonnes of info on C4-7 uncarthrosis blah blah... maybe you girls wanna do research too. Check this out:
http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article201.html
Btw, did you gals ever have an accident or have you ever sustained any falls/injuries? They could even be so minor that you probably wouldn't realise coz there was no need for any medical attention. Well, for my case, I fell down a slope one winter in 1994. The fall was so hard that I chipped a tooth. But of course, I didn't feel any amiss other than my chipped tooth. Then after a ski trip in 1999, I began to experience immense shoulder ache and stiff neck which I thought it was mainly due to my long hours at the desk writing my thesis. I had a minor accident in 2004 when my dh bumped the car in front of us and the car behind us bumped us. But all these never called for an alarm to have my cervical vertebrae x-rayed. And I suspect all these knockings over the years might have caused this degenerative cervical spine disorder.
SO think long and hard if you gals survived any stunts and if yes, better go see a doctor and have your neck checked.