Frodov
Bronze Member
Hello everyone. Been a couple of weeks since my last hunt so I've not been posting much lately. I've been sidelined with a neck/shoulder injury that has had me sleeping upright in my recliner and eating muscle relaxers and pain pills like candy.
I still don't know how I came about the injury, but the when is fairly clear, the weekend of Halloween. I awoke that sunday with the worlds worst "crick" in my neck but I had to go to work so off I went. After being at work for only an hour and a half I couldn't take it anymore and came home and went to the urgent treatment center, I was in PAIN BIG TIME. I was a little bit scared to tell you the truth.. I've never hurt that bad before from my neck and shoulder. The attending doctor at the UTC examined me and poked and prodded around my neck and diagnosed it as a cervical strain. With a prescription for a muscle relaxer and some pain meds I went home to suffer. The meds did NOTHING at all for the pain, didn't even take the edge off. I was getting really scared now, this was just not right at all.. couldn't lay down (to sleep or anything else), I couldn't get comfortable even sitting up, I was miserable. I went back tot he UTC the next morning and the same doctor looked me over again then ordered x-rays, they showed nothing amiss, so he sent me home with prescriptions for stronger muscle relaxers and pain meds (naproxin)<rolling eyes>. No relief at all, and I missed a second day of work. I missed a third day the next day when I finally got in to see my regular doctor.. well.. his office anyway, I was seen by his Physician's Assistant (doctor light), who gave me a steroid shot, stronger meds again, and ordered MRIs. Two days later I went for the MRIs, and missed three more days of work.. still sleeping fitfully (short naps) in my recliner because I still couldn't lay down.
The following Monday morning I got to see my regular doctor. He went over the x-rays, and the MRIs and diagnosed me as having two slightly bulging disks in my neck and the swelling had pinched the nerve bundle coming from my right arm and shoulder. Again, stonger meds, and stronger muscle relaxers.. a series of stretching and strengthening exercises with a follow up appointment in a week. Tomorrow. *WHEW* it's been a miserable couple of weeks let me tell you. But, I am feeling better now. I can turn my head, if somewhat slowly, and I've gone back to work.. definitely taking it easy though. I actually slept in my bed last night for the first time in two weeks! WOOHOO!!!! And.. today.. I got out and detected a little bit!
I tell you, I was starting to get the shakes.. been two weeks of no detecting! I was JONESING MAN! I NEEDED A FIX AND BAD!
<laughing>
Today, here in Central Kentucky, it dawned cloudy and overcast.. and COLD. 32 degrees at sunrise and barely made it up to 37 degrees by 2:30 this afternoon. Still though, I dressed warmly and grabbed my Prizm IV and headed for a nearby park to check out the tot lot. Still kind of taking it easy don't you know.. <grin> Well the woodchips did me good. I may not have broke the bank by any stretch of the imagination, but I lots of targets and it was very very therapeutic to be swinging and digging again. I ended up hunting two small neighborhood parks.. the tot lots with woodchips anyway, though I did hunt the edge of the parking lot next to the tennis courts at one park. All clad, mostly pennies. I did find some trash metal of course.. pull tabs, odds and ends.. and even one pistol! Ok it's only a child's cap pistol, and it's missing its cylinder, but it's still kind of neat. <grin> Here's my pic of today's haul.. paid for my gas and eased my craving for this addictive hobby.
Maybe I'll get back to the soccer fields before too long. Weather permitting, and pain in the neck willing.. we shall see. As always..
Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
I still don't know how I came about the injury, but the when is fairly clear, the weekend of Halloween. I awoke that sunday with the worlds worst "crick" in my neck but I had to go to work so off I went. After being at work for only an hour and a half I couldn't take it anymore and came home and went to the urgent treatment center, I was in PAIN BIG TIME. I was a little bit scared to tell you the truth.. I've never hurt that bad before from my neck and shoulder. The attending doctor at the UTC examined me and poked and prodded around my neck and diagnosed it as a cervical strain. With a prescription for a muscle relaxer and some pain meds I went home to suffer. The meds did NOTHING at all for the pain, didn't even take the edge off. I was getting really scared now, this was just not right at all.. couldn't lay down (to sleep or anything else), I couldn't get comfortable even sitting up, I was miserable. I went back tot he UTC the next morning and the same doctor looked me over again then ordered x-rays, they showed nothing amiss, so he sent me home with prescriptions for stronger muscle relaxers and pain meds (naproxin)<rolling eyes>. No relief at all, and I missed a second day of work. I missed a third day the next day when I finally got in to see my regular doctor.. well.. his office anyway, I was seen by his Physician's Assistant (doctor light), who gave me a steroid shot, stronger meds again, and ordered MRIs. Two days later I went for the MRIs, and missed three more days of work.. still sleeping fitfully (short naps) in my recliner because I still couldn't lay down.
The following Monday morning I got to see my regular doctor. He went over the x-rays, and the MRIs and diagnosed me as having two slightly bulging disks in my neck and the swelling had pinched the nerve bundle coming from my right arm and shoulder. Again, stonger meds, and stronger muscle relaxers.. a series of stretching and strengthening exercises with a follow up appointment in a week. Tomorrow. *WHEW* it's been a miserable couple of weeks let me tell you. But, I am feeling better now. I can turn my head, if somewhat slowly, and I've gone back to work.. definitely taking it easy though. I actually slept in my bed last night for the first time in two weeks! WOOHOO!!!! And.. today.. I got out and detected a little bit!
I tell you, I was starting to get the shakes.. been two weeks of no detecting! I was JONESING MAN! I NEEDED A FIX AND BAD!
<laughing>
Today, here in Central Kentucky, it dawned cloudy and overcast.. and COLD. 32 degrees at sunrise and barely made it up to 37 degrees by 2:30 this afternoon. Still though, I dressed warmly and grabbed my Prizm IV and headed for a nearby park to check out the tot lot. Still kind of taking it easy don't you know.. <grin> Well the woodchips did me good. I may not have broke the bank by any stretch of the imagination, but I lots of targets and it was very very therapeutic to be swinging and digging again. I ended up hunting two small neighborhood parks.. the tot lots with woodchips anyway, though I did hunt the edge of the parking lot next to the tennis courts at one park. All clad, mostly pennies. I did find some trash metal of course.. pull tabs, odds and ends.. and even one pistol! Ok it's only a child's cap pistol, and it's missing its cylinder, but it's still kind of neat. <grin> Here's my pic of today's haul.. paid for my gas and eased my craving for this addictive hobby.
Maybe I'll get back to the soccer fields before too long. Weather permitting, and pain in the neck willing.. we shall see. As always..
Happy Hunting Everyone!
Frodov
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I missed your cheerful accounts. 
