Lumbar Puncture

[NickFitz]

scarping

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Get with the programme, people... it's not that hard

[NotAllThere]

BGG

I think you are VERY brave! When I had my daughter I had to have a spinal block and I was having nightmares for about a week before, to the point where the anaesthetist actually discussed a general with me as I was convinced I would be too panicked to sit still, just the whole idea of going into my spine and the possible complications terrified me. As it was it were fine but still the thought makes me go cold.

An LP is scary beyond belief!

Bunch of wimps. I had a two discs from my neck removed. Going in through the throat, move aside the muscles, trachae, veins and arteries and all that gubbins, to expose the spine. Scrape out the two disks, and where they'd leaked. Scalpel millimetres from spinal cord. But the surgeon told me that while complete paraplegia was a risk, he'd never heard of a case in 50 years...

...and so I was completely terrified. But 2 hours before surgery they gave me a happy pill, and all my fear just melted away.

I'm quite glad I did it though. Went from being essentially bedridden (couldn't sit up for more than five minutes without excrutiating pain) and/or drugged to the eyeballs, to no medication and complete mobility over a few days. Fortunately, at the time, I was in a permie job.

[NickFitz]

Bunch of wimps. I had a two discs from my neck removed. Going in through the throat, move aside the muscles, trachae, veins and arteries and all that gubbins, to expose the spine. Scarpe out the two disks, and where they'd leaked.

Hence your username

[realityhack]

Bunch of wimps... ...Fortunately, at the time, I was in a permie job.

Hmm... One of my best mates had the same thing happen to him. I don't know you, by any chance? You didn't damage your neck in a car accident, by any chance? While marshalling for a rally?

[NotAllThere]

Not me. There was no specific cause for my slipped disks. Though it took the surgeon twice as long as he'd expected to clear them out, because of the scar tissue, that had accumulated from probably around 10 years of slipping disks in my neck. ( That was never diagnosed as such ).

and any way, I have no (visible) mates.

[realityhack]

Ah. No - the mate in question rolled a mini over an embankment into a tree, crawled out into the road with a broken neck, flagged down help only to collapse and wake up in traction.

[Board Game Geek]

Cheers for the good lucks.

(Off topic - is it classic board games only or have you ever dabbled in the lead soldier type?)

Both actually.

I collect and play boardgames (Currently standing at 86 different boardgames now)
I would say about 5-6 are the traditional classics, such as Monopoly, Scrabble, etc.

The rest are more contemporary such as Settlers of Catan, Warrior Knights, Talisman, Warcraft, Junta, Entdecker, Runebound, etc.

1 or 2 are more serious wargames, eg, Axis and Allies, etc.

[Toffnana]

Brings back memories

Remember having my LP over 3 years ok like it was yesterday. Luckily they did it on the first with 'only' scraping the bone a little..still went into a state of shock afterwards. Can only guess the kind of hell you went through but at least it's worth it (also with an LP they can tell 100% whether MS or not so ends all the nagging doubts etc.)

Anyway, hope the results are good for you mate.

Toff

[Board Game Geek]

Aye, well if it is MS (and the checklist of symptoms does strongly indicate that way), I'd just deal with it and get on with it anyway.

Adapt and overcome and all that.

[hyperD]

Sorry to hear about this BGG.

If it's any consolation, I had Campylobacter food poisoning many, many years ago. Managed to lose over 2 stone in under 2 weeks with a haemorrhaged bowel, bleeding blood from my ar$e like nobody's business.

Went for a visit to the hospital as my mum was worried (especially as my hair was coming out in clumps) and the doc made me lie on the couch with my knees up. They stuck a cold white tube up my ar$e, pumped it up to check for perforations and then removed it - all while I was suffering from chronic diarrhoea.

Not surprisingly I shat the bed.

At least the GP was kind enough to wipe up after me...