It is very unlikely that I will race this week as it will be just 16 days after the op.
The doctor warned that the most likely complication would be refracturing the fibula before the bone is fully healed so for the sake of a few points, I'm not going to risk it.
The wound is also slightly open so lake water is probably not the best thing for it!
Looking that way - 8mph from the south (if we are lucky)
Oh well
I had my hospital appointment yesterday and the news was not as good as I'd hoped. The MRI shows I have 2 prolapsed discs in my neck between c5/6 and c6/7. The consultant described the upper one as "chronic" but with a boney protrusion from vertebrae c5 pressing into the disc. This is my old injury which occured when I broke my neck after falling off a trampoline in 1982. Hard to beleive I'm that old isn't it :wink: He informed me that the lower one is new, much larger and "acute". It has a smaller boney protrusion which is also pressing on the route of the nerve which supplies the upper right hand side of my body and arm. He also said that if you had to chose a point on the body which, if pinched would cause the most pain, this would be it - he didn't need to say this as I knew only too well. Apparently the usual thing is to operate to remove the extra bone to allow the nerve some freedom and to try and repair the discs. However, he advised against it in my case. He plans to inject the affected area with corticosteriod. The process requires only a local anaesethetic followed by a large needle which he described as a "horse needle" which he uses to "spray the mixture around the nerve and disc" - sounds great! don't know why I didn't think of it before :cry: Anyway, he claims to have had 100% success over the last 5 years but doesn't want to do it for 6 weeks as the pins and needles in my arm have not yet subsided. You watch, the wind will start to blow in 6 weeks - I guarantee it :wink:
Old Tigers, sensing the end, are at their most fierce.
I must say the scar is going to be impressive, Mike. Shame you can't come back and race for a few more weeks longer. You don't want MRSA in that wound, however clean we think the mountain spring freshness of Brog.
If Dave gets his horse injection soon it might slow him down a little bit so I can catch him for once, while riding the whales. Or even worse, get a scar to match round c5/6 -he'll look more like Frankinstein than you!
Seriously, the sooner you guys get straight the better.
