Hospitals

As I walk into the wide revolving doors, I can't help but smell that oh so awful smell of hospital. I see monitors and doctors rushing to save people's lives and there stands me, A tiny girl for Franklin Wisconsin. You may ask how I ended up here, about a year ago I found out through an MRI, which was incredibly loud and annoying, that I have two herniated disks bulging out of my spine. Also, along with that they are also hitting my sciatic nerve which is the largest nerve in your body. Everytime, I stand, walk,eat, sleep or move a shooting pain shoots down my legs. I ended up in the hospital around the beginning of my senior year. From there it became an every two week thing. When you experience something like this is take a major toll on your life. I went from being involved in Dance at Next Step and pomming on the Franklin Varsity Pom Team to doing absolutely nothing. This issue has impacted me as well with school because every two weeks I now miss three to four days of school. It has been extremely hard for me, and a lot of times a struggle to cope with it. Luckily I have been blessed with an extremely supportive family who is with me through all the steps along the way.
When I first discovered that my back hurt I just pretended it was not their because I was never willing to give up my passion, dance. However, over time the pain became deteriorating and I was forced to quit due to receiving cortisone shots. Little did I know that the needle was about the size of a bear. It was extremely frightening for me. When arriving at the doctor's office they first have you check-in. Once you are called back I was asked to perform a pee test in order to ensure I was not pregnant. Of course I wasn’t so next came the procedure. All of the nurses were so nice to me and they all commonly claimed “You’re way to young to be here.” I would smile and nodded but I couldn't change the fact that I was here. Even getting the doctors to perform these procedures on me was a tough challenge. My mom and I went through twenty two doctors before one of them agreed to relieve me of my pain. Dr. Piryani
Dr.Periani, he was a peculiar guy, always dressed in all white like he had to be so that I felt as though everything was sterile. Before every procedure he would come in shake my hand very firmly and then begin to ask me questions such as, where is your pain at one to ten, how long has this been happening, did anything inpact this injury etc. I asked all of the questions but to me he always seemed puzzled that it wasn’t impacted my something. After we did all that I changed into scrubs, which by the way are not a fashion statement, but I didn't have a choice. From there I was wheeled into the operating from where there laid a silver table with four table on top of time. As i lied there I could help but feel the tears running down my face.
When the needle enter the pain was so extreme that it caused my body to shake and twitch during almost the entire procedure. Once about twenty five minutes had gone by he allowed me to get up and return to the room. At this point I wanted to go home so bad but he made me stay for another thirty minutes before realizing me. The pain for the next 2 weeks was treacherous. I wondered why since it is only supposed to hurt for up to 72 hours at the most, little did I know cortisone would never work for me. I endured six procedures of cortisone to this day and not a single one has done anything for me to this day, besides putting me in more pain. After this was done Dr.Piryani referred us to a spine surgeon Dr.Orton. I have now met with him three times and he plans to perform back surgery on me in february. The thought of this is terrifying. I will be pulled out of all my classes starting then besides english since that is needed to graduate. Where my disk is herniated will cause a minimum of a year recovery and because of that I will not be able to attend my dream university Alabama. I will have to stay close so that my mom can monitor everything that is happening with my back. Enduring therapy will be tough because I will completely have to learn how to rewalk. All I can do is pray. I hope that after reading this people realize not to take things for granted because before you know it your hobby, school work and even friends can disappear like lightening.