Today I zipped home from work to pick up Mom and take her to see the neurosurgeon I work with here in Yakima. She had surgery June 23rd and woke up feeling like they broke her ankles during surgery or something, and since then she's just had horrendous pain, making sitting a very painful activity, and then yesterday her leg gave out and she fell...again.... drat - that's why she had the surgery in the first place! It was incredible to see the extent of the nerve damage she's experienced somewhere along the line since Jan 1st when this all started. She has no feeling in her feet, nerve messages don't make it down to her toes and feet so when the PA asked her to raise her toes and raise her feet, nothing happened! She also wasn't able to rock back on her heels nor up on her toes. How insane is that?! She had to close her eyes for one part of the exam and the PA used a 2-sided tool (one side smooth, one side pin-pricky) and she had to say whether she felt "dull...
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