Monday, January 19, 2009

Monday 8AM !!!

Hope this can be a practice and no demerits for being late the first time.
Part of this cold weekend was spent reading, outlining, listing vocab and drawing on what comprises a nerve. I have a pinched nerve in my thoracic region called "thoracic outlet syndrome" which is when I lift my left arm, elbow bent, shoulder level, for any length of time, my arm and hand become numb and tingling and begin to ache. Xrays reveled I have an extra rib on my left side causing this impingement.

1 comment:

  1. Wow, is there anything you can do about the extra rib? I sometimes have pain in the lower back area on my left side, my doctor told me that I had a floating rib, which I did not believe in such a thing, then I checked the web and did a lttle research and it is an actually thing or at least we can say they have a name for a pain. Why would the extra rib cause this type of nerve pinch pain, it sounds that it could be painful and a pain!

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