I thought I would post a up date on Cliff. He has been doing rather well except for some sciatic nerve pain in his right leg, the pain is so bad that he can only be up siting or standing for 30min to a 1hr. He is scheduled to see Dr. Hellen in showlow at the Spine care place on thursday and then they will schedule him for a epidural steroid spine injection to see if that will help.
Dr. Coss has put him on a pill called neurotin it is used for epilepsy but also works for nerve pain. Cliff thinks that it helps keep away the severe pain but never all of it.
Dr. Theodore (cliffs back surgeon) told us that on his right side was where a lot of the damage took place from the L5 burst, so it may take a long time (if ever) for that nerve to heal.
We sure have learned a lot about Dr.s offices. They are all CRAZY, there is always one girl that is so ornery and always acts like you are such a inconvenience for her when you call. You always have to leave a few messages with this or that person before you get a call back for an answer, and usually they tell you to call some one else, and so on. It gets so frustrating,
Anyways other than that we are happy, the girls are healthy and have been wonderful. We are so grateful to have so many friends and family around to be so willing to help. They have taken such good care of us.
p.s. we finally saw a x-ray of cliffs back, cliff said it looks like they played k-nex with his spine, when I get the x-rays I'll post them