Angela Parker Facebook ad: “Spinal Stenosis”

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I am going to tell you the sentence I have been pushing out of my head for three years. The sentence is "this is me in fifteen years". I sat across from my 78-year-old mother in her rest home in Dunedin last Thursday and I thought it for the first time instead of pushing it away. My mother has had lumbar and cervical stenosis for 15 years. She went into the rest home in March. The walker she used at home for five years is folded against the wall of her room. She uses the wheelchair most of the time. She can get up with help for a few minutes at a time. That is where she is. I am 62. I was diagnosed three years ago. I was sitting across from her last Thursday and I was looking at the folded walker against the wall and I was seeing my own walker. I was looking at the wheelchair and I was seeing my own wheelchair. Here is what I have paid in three years to make sure that is not me at 78. $1,692 in medication at the pharmacy. Celecoxib daily. Amitriptyline at night. I have been told by two different GPs that this is "how we manage it at your stage". I have been on these pills so long I cannot remember who I was before the fog settled in. $7,920 to a private physiotherapist every Thursday at 3pm for 22 months. $90 per session. She is kind. She is competent. At session 88 she told me she had run out of approaches. $1,540 to an osteopath across 14 sessions. She was also kind. At session 14 she also told me she had run out of approaches. $2,400 for an orthopaedic mattress. Zero difference because the problem is not the mattress. $890 for one cortisone injection that lasted six weeks. I am at $14,442 over three years. I have not counted the hydrotherapy, the acupuncture, or the supplements three different clinicians told me to try. Three years. Three clinicians. Four treatment types. $14,442. My mother is still in the wheelchair. I am still early stage. The canal is still closing. Last Thursday I drove home from the rest home and I pulled over in a car park in South Dunedin and I cried for 25 minutes before I could start the car again. My friend Karen called me on the Sunday. She had noticed I had been falling off the pace on our walks. She had not said anything. She asked me what was wrong and I told her. She sent me an article an hour later. I read it that evening. The article told me in 600 words what three clinicians and $14,442 had not. Lumbar stenosis is not a pain problem that can be medicated into submission. It is not a muscle problem that can be stretched out. It is not a symptom that can be injected down. It is a canal that is physically closing. The only thing that changes the canal, daily, at home, without surgery, is mechanical decompression. Fifteen minutes. In the armchair. Before dinner. I started the routine the Monday after Karen called me. I am on day 33. Last Thursday I walked from the visitor car park of the rest home to the front entrance without stopping at the bench halfway. Ninety metres. First time in a year. When I went into my mother's room she looked up from her book and said the thing she has said every Thursday for 18 months. "You are moving better this week." I did not tell her why. Not yet. I am not my mother at 78 yet. I am not going to be. Not if I have anything to do with it. If you have seen your own future this week in someone you love, read this before you pay another specialist to "manage it conservatively": https://www.nervillastore.com/pages/spinal-stenosis

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