The 1st day was great! They were able to get it numb but still able to work it. So he had a small PT session. Now all we are looking for is some not total pain relief and each time they dose it to get longer relief. We go home for the weekend and then start the week long on Monday. when they dose it Mon it doesn't do half of what it did Fri. Thinking the catheter could have moved some they try on Tues. and get the same effect. Play with it and redo it on Wed they get nothing. Not any part goes numb. Same story on Thurs. look at it again under xray and its in the perfect place. Give him a different drug and it knocks him out. Asleep and snoring!!! No pain relief just sound asleep. So after sleeping a little off we head back to my sisters where we have been staying and he sleeps 4 more hours. Fri comes and they dose it with half a dose and the same thing he is so tired can't keep his eyes open. So this tells them that the drugs have been going straight into his system and not to the desired nerve root. dr. says "Its lucky he isn't a girl as having a baby epidural wouldn't work". He got a little tingling in his hands one day and that is why. So with treatment plan 3 not working where does that leave us?
Well they sent us home yesterday with a plan to get moving no matter the pain. Try the best he can to work through it. So far they have all wanted him to stop if the pain flared. Still on crutches and not walking full weight but to try small amounts of walking motion and light touches. Don't over do but try hard. This is the step we are on and hoping its the last. We know there are more medical treatments but if we can avoid them we will.
The next medical step is a ketamine infusion. Yes it scares me but it has been around a long time. Its not a new drug. He will be monitored with the whole process. It has the chance of making him pain free and that is a chance we have to take. We hope for just a reduced amount of pain so he can move more. I can't stand by and watch my healthy active athlete turn into a home bound with no life any longer. Everything I read claims keeping physical is the best for it. If this treatment will allow him enough pain relief to get back to light activity then more he will be on his way to remission.
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