Rather undramatically, I did not have a broken neck. In fact, everything looked pretty normal except for my spinal column, which seemed a bit larger than normal. So I got told to be careful and head off for an MRI and then to the neurosurgeon.
MRI, for those not in the know, stands for Magnetic Resonance Imagery. It's like a super x-ray that looks at tissue and all the other interesting internal bits that x-ray doesn't show. MRI's are an interesting experience as well. You lie down on a very skinny bed and are then moved into a big drum. The roof is only a few centimetres from your face, so if you're claustrophobic you're in strife. Then, when they start doing the tests it sounds like you're in a game of space invaders falling down a set of stairs. It's pretty noisy, and not a particularly comfortable place yet somehow I managed to fall asleep.
Later, with MRI results in hand I went to Sydney to see the neurosurgeon. He informed that I had a cyst in my spinal cord, otherwise known as syringomyelia. This thing was pretty big. It ran from near the base of my spine to a third of the way down my back, and at it's thickest was around the size of a plastic cigarette lighter. This "thing" in my neck was apparently swelling and pushing on the nerves in my spinal cord associated with my arm (hence the pins and needles) and my diaphragm (hence the hiccups). The apparent solution: medication to reduce the swelling.
Was it effective? More on that later.
Tuesday 28 November 2006
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