It seems I'm a patient now!

Tomorrow hubs is due a phone consultation about his back pain. Just hope it provides him with some answers or ideas at the very least, as pain levels aren’t good, he takes his 4 doses of paracetamol a day plus extra codeine when it’s really bad. I suspect his spinal arthritis dates from being an excellent hooker in his rugby team, school and town, often had scrums all descending on top of him, that’s before modern rules stopped a lot of that happening. Then as he felt rugby was getting a bit rough and his Mum found all the washing and drying of kit hard, he went on to water polo, as he says the only rules were where the ref could see, above water, anything that went on under the surface was ok! And training for that was tough, too. 
Im hoping they come up with a possibility of an MRI which is compatible with his pacemaker (some are, some aren’t) which would give them an idea of what might be possible to treat, he’s already had decompression of 2 lumbar vertebrae. 
Hugs xxx

Hope hubs gets somewhere tomorrow with a pain management schedule and further investigation to get to the bottom of it all. He definitely lived life to the full, what a sporty man but it has taken a toll.

Huge hugs xx

Thank you Santababy!

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Just had to share this 

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I just keep getting tears in my eyes whenever I hear a news report about Sir Tom the world has lost a great man xx

Santababy️there really are many many great people....they often hide their lights under a bushel.You can’t always see them but they are there,every day,quietly and modestly getting on with their lives...Keep looking for them,and learn from their memory xx

Well said Violetsniff Lots of heroes in these times and many go completely unoticed.  xxxx

That is so poignant moomy xx

moomy how did the phone consultation go? Productive I hope xx

It was good, the Registrar listened fully to all hubs had to say and was easy to talk to, he said, and hubs has been left with a possible new type of scan being looked for; he CAN have an MRI but it has to be one that will cope with his pacemaker. Older MRIs can’t. The Registrar will be forwarding his case but said it wouldn’t be for a while, (months probably) due to backlog etc. 
thanks for asking.....he still isn’t a lot further forward but hasn’t been fobbed off, which is good. 
Hugs xxx