I had a nerve block today

[KL Aguilar]

I had a nerve block early this morning at the nerve roots for C6 and C7--not sure if this is the right terminology for the nerves themselves. Since my second injury in August of 2006, my left wrist has been grossly swollen and visually deformed, my fingers have been swollen and numb, and my left hand just doesn't work normally. (At first I even had wrist drop and a claw hand, but luckily, that more or less resolved after a few months.)

Anyway, my left wrist is already less swollen and my pinkie and ring fingers are less numb. I am pleasantly surprised, but expect this isn't a permanent solution, right?

And of course, this does nothing to resolve my most serious problem: severe spinal cord compression, with the cord being compressed to half the normal space at C5/6. I am supposed to have a laminectomy, but am still waiting for Worker's Comp approval.