Lee555
11-12-2007, 11:35 PM
What's the deal with this crap going on anyway. I go to a physiatrist today and show him the problems going on, and tell him aobut the spasms in the neck, back and what it does to the left arm and leg (they go numb, dead and shocky) and they say nothing can do nada. All this hedges on one freaking EMg done 6 months ago and the assumption that nothing but simple cervical strain happened in the accident.
What he did to me was also pretty rediculous too. I said I couldn't shrug my left shoulder so what does he do?? He puts his hands on each upper arm and pushes up. See, he says, you got them up. Uhhhh, sure, but I didn't put it there, you did. He tests the strength of the big toe on the left, and it's like a 2 on a scale of 1-10. I tell him about how an ice pack feels like fire on my skin and he says this is normal? What the hell is normal about it?
So what happens in 6 months when it's all the same way as it is now, and the shoulder is withered and skinny? If this is an incomplete SCI, what is going on, they blacklisting me because I got this way from a car accident or are they all just treating me like an hysterical middle-aged woman? Because this is going to make me hysterical. This has got me so pissed off I can barely think straight when it comes to mind.
Edited: I forgot to mention, I asked how I was going to get the arm and leg functioning again and he tells me to join a gym or take up swimming. When I left PT back in June the therapist was concerned then as to why the arm wasn't getting better but getting worse. Personally, I am thinking they (the doctors) are hanging me out to dry.
What he did to me was also pretty rediculous too. I said I couldn't shrug my left shoulder so what does he do?? He puts his hands on each upper arm and pushes up. See, he says, you got them up. Uhhhh, sure, but I didn't put it there, you did. He tests the strength of the big toe on the left, and it's like a 2 on a scale of 1-10. I tell him about how an ice pack feels like fire on my skin and he says this is normal? What the hell is normal about it?
So what happens in 6 months when it's all the same way as it is now, and the shoulder is withered and skinny? If this is an incomplete SCI, what is going on, they blacklisting me because I got this way from a car accident or are they all just treating me like an hysterical middle-aged woman? Because this is going to make me hysterical. This has got me so pissed off I can barely think straight when it comes to mind.
Edited: I forgot to mention, I asked how I was going to get the arm and leg functioning again and he tells me to join a gym or take up swimming. When I left PT back in June the therapist was concerned then as to why the arm wasn't getting better but getting worse. Personally, I am thinking they (the doctors) are hanging me out to dry.