Hand...

Today I am sick in bed with Bronchitis. Whenever I get sick, I get this lovely illness! But I can't take any medications for it because they won't work...let me rewind.


In December of 2009, I was diagnosed with a nerve disease called Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome. What this disease does is it takes over a part if your body. Mine happened to be my right wrist region. And of course I'm right handed! My hand locked up, I couldn't move it whatsoever, and I couldn't touch anything. After going through all this, my body went into shock and I couldn't walk for two months. I was in and out of the hospital up until moving to Long Beach. I was even in the hospital while I was down here too. Kaiser is where I was first admitted and they started me on treatments where they would insert a needle half way into my spine through my jugular vein and insert medicines to calm my nerves down. I couldn't have any pain meds and I had to be wide awake because if I were to move and the needle shifted, then it could hit an artery that would stop my heart instantly. Those treatments only worked for a little and my hand continued to get worse and worse! So I was sent to Stanford Medical Center. I was in the hospital for eight weeks. I finished my senior year of high school there. I had seven surgeries there. They put catheters down my neck and armpit that would insert epidural meds into my arm. This was to rebuild my arm from scratch pretty much. After being in Stanford they put me on lots of medicines. One of my medicines conflicts with other medicines working. Advil doesn't work, Benadryl doesn't work, etc. So here I am sick, waiting for my immune system to fight this sucker off! But one usually gets sick because of stress, and my hand disease is triggered by stress. I'm just hoping my hand is okay and that I can fight this cold off fast :/






Here is a link to an article on me from when I attended the "Pediatric Alice in Wonderland Hospital Prom."


http://stanfordmedicine.org/communitynews/2010summer/prom.html


This is my xray of the first treatments I had done with Kaiser. 

 These are the catheters that Stanford would put in my neck and armpit.

Although I had tubes in my neck, it didn't stop me from going to Prom!

This is my friend Keith and I at the Hospital Prom!