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A little bit about me:Update- I do not have access to a pc except at work. so I am unable to respond to emails or friends request right away.Thank ya'll Chris. I am a Mom of 3,3 surgeries in 5 years. My last surgey was to remove a hemotoma from my neck- dr missed a small bleeder which developed into the hemotomoa and caused pain on the nerves just relieved by the triple fusion I had just had the week before. Surgery # 2 was a triple cervical fusion level C4-5,5-6, 6-7. After I was home for 3 days I was unable to raise my arm over my head for 6 months!Surgery #1 was in 03, it was a 5 level cervical lamimoplasty. Ever since the Jan 05 surgery (#2) I've been in lots of pain from this and pinched nerves, occitical nerve headaches,muscle weakness and atrophy. I have a hard time using my R arm due the weakness and numbness in my neck/back/arm/hand.I also have a pinched sciatic nerve in my lower back, right side.Going to my doctors(yes Plural)to get FMLA papers to save my job and also filing short term disibility papers too. I should have done this last year. But what can I say I am hard headed! :) I hurt constantly and most people DO NOT understand. I take some major pain meds and I think I am getting used to them. I also just found out last month that I have an aneurysm behind my left eye.I go in sometime in May for an arterigram. I also just had surgery on my r. elbow to move the ulnar nerve from below my elboe to above it cause it was pinched! I seem to be recovering ok from that(4/5/08). I seem to be falling apart and I just turned 42. I was just told last August that I am bi-polar, but I am not taking anything for it other than cymbalta.