Timelies all!

Happy Tom day!

This week has been another shitshow at home. Mr. S had aggressive meltdowns several days this week, including Wed night when we were supposed to have the seder.(We hosted, my MIL did all the cooking) We just ended up saying a few blessings and Gary did MaNishtana, then we ate. Right now he's with the nanny for logistic reasons. I just don't know what to do. It seems like the smallest things set him off, including me saying anything.

So, I have to have an MRI because something went wonky in my fucking neck when I was at the dentist — for real, the dentist leaned the chair back, and when the chair got to a certain angle, electric hot knife-y pain shot down both arms, and now I have ongoing electric burning nerve pain from my elbows to my hands, including the pinky, ring finger, and middle finger. I didn’t even do anything to cause this, damn it. I just leaned back in the dentist chair.

But it’s been several weeks and isn’t improving, so I saw Awesome Doctor today, and he was like, yep, that’s your neck, and you need an MRI so we know how to treat it. In the interim I have oral steroids, and I hope they help, because this burning nerve pain sucks. And long-term, I hope this can be fixed with PT and/or a steroid injection, because I really don’t want surgery on my cervical spine. (According to Google, 90% of cases are improve with non-surgical treatments. So the odds are good.)