Wednesday, 5 August 2009

My feet

I mentioned in March that I have sore feet and lower legs, that's the biggest understatment I've ever made sore doesn't begin to describe the pain.

Anyway - I have started to notice I begin sentences with the word 'anyway' quite a lot I'll have to stop that - I saw another neurologist on Tuesday who tested the conductivity of my nerves - got to stop these little asides as well, why he had to spend so much time at Med school is beyond me, he placed a contact on my feet and another on my leg and sent an electrical charge between them then measured the distance and fed that into a PC - so the PC was doing all the work. He merely read the results from the screen.
Upshot is my nerves are causing me pain - I knew that already didn't need umpteen years in med school or a PC to tell me that bit - he doesn't know what causes it but it won't get any better he tells me then gets back to chatting up the pretty med student who wants to learn how to work a PC like he does - his fingers are so nimble on the keyboard her heart and eyes flutter - you can see the hero worship as well as feel it.

Anyway - there I go again tsk tsk- he says that the first consultant, from February, will be in touch to let me know what the findings are, which at the rate the NHS moves at will be in December. So here I sit a little depressed, readers, phantoms, and all who sail the porridge and morrasse nay drivel I write here. A little research on the internet of the symptoms I have tell me I may have a condition called by various names but mostly RSD (CRPS) - Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy ( Complex Regional Pain Syndrome) in essence my nerves have set up a pain giving loop - one nerve says its sore and another says are you and first say yes and so it goes on. If I were a computer I'd simply switch off and reboot but I aint so I can't so I'll have to suffer the pain, It'll only get worse so the story goes.

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