Hello my DA Family

Well, here's another update to my situation that's kept me from DA/ work and my hobbies.

After getting my MRI/tests completed it looks like I've ruptured two discs in my lumbar vertebre so it'll take some time to heal and my GP had referred me to a neurosurgeon due to the lack of feeling in my legs and the pressing of nerves to consider surgery.

After attending a consultation with the neurosurgeon he said I don't need surgery as of yet. He however put me on Dexomethsone which is a strong steroid to help with the inflammation to help settle it and repair the discs on it's own. He only wanted me to take it for week. Then, in about a month's time, he would suggest an epidural steroid to help assist it further. For those of you who don't understand what an epidural is, it's where they inject a steroid directly into the spine to give a more potent dosage of medication directly into the body and for women who are in labour, assist with the labour pain.

However, this is not to be the case. Turns out that the dexomethosone I was taking caused me to have serious and extremely adverse side effects to it to where I was becoming blind and suffering from a high fever. I immediately consulted the neurosurgeon and suggested I stopped taking immediately. So I'm in limbo until my GP returns from holidays next week until we can find something else to work.

Since stopping the steroid I've been in much more pain and extremely sensitive across the back but I'm hoping with the time to rest it'll decrease and I'll be able to rest easier. I'm still on my morphine but it seems to do so little now. All I hope is that I will be able to get back into work again soon as I'm losing my mind from boredom and the incessant nagging of back pain.

Sorry for such a long update, but I thought I'd let you know I'm still here and that I wanted to thank you all for all the love and support through this time for me.

I'd also like to give a special thanks to a lost friend of mine who took the time to told me to get better and now I feel so much more whole.

Thanks to you all for your love, support and compassion and I'll do my best to get well again to produce my works and to be a productive member of society.

Much Love to All

Rena (Succubus-Angel)