I’m getting more body metal.
The doc’s going in the end of April through the back of my neck to scrap extruding bone spur and cartilage off the inside of my spinal column because the protrusion is pushing against my spinal cord and has bruised it.
Have had tingling and slight numbness in my finger tips since November, and I drop things, find my balance a bit off, and my nerves are stretched tight because of it.
They’ll insert 2 rods and some screws to stop my arthritis bone degeneration, then put me in a hard collar for two weeks . . . when the doc said that, Lady piped up, “Oh like one of those dog collars so he can’t bite himself?”
Don’t like being fixed all the time, but am grateful I’m fixable. Thank goodness for Medicare. And we’re poor enough the hospital will absorb what Medicare doesn’t cover, otherwise we couldn’t do it.
Forgot to ask what metal the rods will be . . . my hip is titanium, and my shoulder is cobalt and chrome. Doc says since I like posting my x-ray fotos, I’ll really like the rod and screws version of my head. Now when folks say I’ve a screw loose, I can show them the x-ray and say no, I’m screwed fine.
Status Report 199
One neck bone’s not connected right
to next neck bone jammed too tight
so Doc’s going in with micro knife
to straighten my serial spinal strife
going to add two rods and some screws
increase my metal density too
got one titanium hip screwed alone
one shoulder built of cobalt and chrome
two hernias covered with synthetic mesh
keep me from being tossed with the trash
my eyes have metal and plastic glasses
my teeth ceramic and metal for noshes
grass for my brain, love for my heart
help keep me from falling apart
so I lumber on in stumbling style
trying to reach one more mile
gotta live at least 31 years more
to keep my wife from the misery store
imagine my clink and clanking then
here comes Smith, the new Tin Man
– Smith, 4.4.2016
dark mass on right at curve pushing into white is going to go