Injections of Doom - pics coming!

[cjsmith]

Today, the doctor actually had a third person come in and take photographs of me while I was getting the shots. (OK, fourth person in the room if you count me.) The photographer said this is the same facial expression she made when she was pushing with labor. Sadly, she didn't focus in on my face, so instead these are big photos where you can see my whole upper body. But still you can tell that I'm lurching up from the chair. I firmly maintain that if these had been taken the first or second time they'd have been much more dramatic. Ah well. The doctor says he'll e-mail them to rfrench, and then maybe I can post 'em here.

I'm not walking very strangely today. I think my nerves are weak enough that I can't really feel the weird effects of the anaesthetic.

New bit of information today. My nerves may not go FULLY numb. I figured they were supposed to die completely, but apparently not -- as long as the neuroma pain is gone the treatment is good. I may retain some sensation in the affected toes.

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[emmera.livejournal.com]

This is going to sound completely strange, but I have to ask anyways - I'm a college student, working to get my Health care aid certificate. In my Anatomy and Physiology class we're working on the nervous system right now.
A while back I found you on random, and was rather fascinated by your injection treatment, but being shy I never said anything to you. I DID however bookmark you, so I could check in and see how things were going, and if it worked.

The question: This ties in SO well with where we are in class at the moment. I've done some research on Morton's and was wondering if I could share your experience with the class (or at least the teacher). I'd leave your name and journal address private if you wished. There's no bonus marks involved for me, I'm just one of these medically curious people :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Feel free to share this with whomever might benefit! One of the reasons I'm writing it up is that odd feeling of "just in case someone else I know goes through this one day".

If you like, I'll go back and unlock some of my old posts about what we tried first -- anti-inflammatory injections when it was misdiagnosed as metatarsalgia/capsulitis, physical therapy, orthotic inserts. Or if you're just interested in the injections, all that stuff's probably unlocked already.

[emmera.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the sharing! Whatever you feel comfortable sharing...
My teacher has a habit of not answering questions some days in the hopes that we'll go out and look things up ourselves... it almost always works on me so here I am :)
I've always been medically nosey.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I just got caught up on adding lots of old schtuff to my LJ "memories", and if you want to take a look at (or share with your class if you like) anything related to my foot pain, it's under footpain. There's a lot of fluff. August 4th is my first real post about the alcohol injections.

I'm so organized I could just slap myself. :-)