New SCI c5/c6

Thanks for your response its interesting how each individual is different the spasms and poor mobility I can handle it’s the severe pain to hands , fingers and arms i struggle with

Hope your son is managing ok


Many thanks

 I had surgery in may i think it was c-3 to c-7 fusion but there was something else my neurologist was looking at because of atrophied muscles Ms or MD but i have not gone back to any doctors because i have been busy fighting  with the banana republic healthcare system_ but it is possible from what i am told i could have other underlying things going on, i do walk but very cautiously like a chameleon swaying and balancing itself on a branch with my eyes on stalks like a lobster looking out for that darn cat or anything else i can trip over because once i am on the ground i cannot get up! I take care of my dressing and showering but you could watch a good movie in the time it takes me to perform the simplest tasks and picking up a gallon of milk or holding a cup of coffee is not easy forget can openers or ziplock bags_ after my surgery i was in tears because i was able to make a fist with both hands now i cant even close my hands! Sorry i'm ranting bad habit .
   i had and have basically the same symptoms as you except there was never any Pain! i never new this was brewing ! 

had pt in oct.2022 _OT is not doable and now i have a new issue, or i should say i had it all along, but two doctors my primary care physician and several nurses looked at a dark spot i pointed out to them on separate occasions and said it was dry skin _ the spot is located on the inside of the leg between the knee and the ankle and considering i had cardiac stents put in the summer before and i also have peripheral artery disease i thought i might have been misdiagnosed again !!! so i wont be sporting these baby's anytime soon. dry skin? well i put moisturizer on it but started to notice the redness was spreading and it did bother me which i had told them!

earlier today i took a picture and sent it to a taxidermy colleague and a doctor in puerto Ricco he told me it is a vascular ulcer, he originally diagnosed me correctly in 2021 from puerto Ricco when i sent a picture from a friends phone of the same leg with a dozen or so little red blood spots just under the sock only on one leg within two minutes he called back and told me that was a stroke waiting to happen! that was in the spring, i walked 1/4 mile every other day on my break and had no idea what was coming!