Good News...

Jon's back pain is going away!!!!!

I'll start at the beginning.

About a month ago, we went into see a new doctor. This time it was a local guy from Zion Pain Management. We went to him to have a discogram done (A specialist from vegas thought his dics were the problem). When we went in for the intial visit the doc did his exam and after 5 mins said he thinks he knows what the problem is. What did he say??..... He said he thinks the epidural injections Jon had a year ago should have given us different results. He didn't say the other doctor did them wrong, just that from the things Jon told him, he should have noticed that thats where the pain was coming from. So after doing the discogram and getting negative results, we gave the doc the go ahead to redue the facet injections. A few days later he did them and sure enough....Jon's pain was temporarily relieved. (The point of the injections is to see if when they inject pain relevers into your joints, if the pain will go away.) Since the procedure worked, like the doc said it would, the next step was for Jon to get his nerves burnt. Sounds scary I know. Less than a week later he was back in the docs office for the procedure.

This one was WAY more painful than any of the other 36 some odd injections he's had in the past year. He could barely move for 3 days afterwards. They say it takes anywhere from 1-4 weeks for your body to register that the nerve is burnt. After 2 weeks Jon started feeling less pain. Then the other day he told me he knew it was working because instead of the usual pain he'd feel after a hard day at work, he felt sore. The pain is subsiding enough that he can actually feel sore muscles!! This wouldn't seem like exciting news to anyone else, but to us it feels like a miracle. He said he still feels a little bit of pain, but not much and that'll probably go away here shortly.

All I have to say is THANK YOU! Thank you Dr Stott. Who figured out what was wrong with him in less than 2 months. It has taken 3 other doctors 2 years of prescribing pain meds, thinking he was faking it and doing countless procedures on him and yet they still go no where!

Thank you Heavenly Father. We know it was because of him we were able to find this new doctor and he was able to help him in such a short time frame. We feel so blessed.

Finally we'll be able to get this dumb car accident behind us.

After a few years the nerves will grow back, so Jon'll have to go back in to get the procedure done again, but at least he can be pain free....FINALLY!!!!!