I've been going to PT to try to get some feeling back in my right hand (nerve entrapment caused the fingers of right hand to feel as dead as a baseball mitt.) Deep down I don't really think the therapy is gonna help, but giving it the ole college try.

Well folks, Friday evening I was talking on the phone and took a big gulp of water from a bottle between words. Bad bad idea. One should NEVER NEVER talk and eat or drink at the same time. Everybody knows that. So, that big gulp of water went down my lungs and I coughed so hard I lost my breath.

My friend on the phone was alarmed when she heard me coughing so hard. I couldn't breathe and strangled and coughed and kept it up for a good 15 minutes. I finally got enough air to croak on the phone "call you later," and coughed some more. The next morning my throat was raw from coughing--but I noticed something--I had some prickly feelings in my fingers.

The coughing spell has either nudged the disc in my neck off the nerve a little, or loosened up some of the muscle spasm-ed tightness in my arm--or something. Now I have pins and needles sensation in those fingers. I'm so happy--I can live with pins and needles. With that increase in sensation I can button buttons and do other things. I called it "The Coughing Cure"  but "coughing treatment" is more apt.

Bye y'all, susil

Comments:

Wow, I'm amazed that happened.

comment by shesaidwhat on June 24, 2008 7:14 PM ()

Hi she--And--getting more and more sensation in my fingers
every day! That coughing spell really shook something loose!

reply by susil on June 25, 2008 9:39 AM ()

comment by tealstar on June 24, 2008 8:37 AM ()

Hi teal; Heavens, doesn't weird things like that happen to
everybody?

reply by susil on June 24, 2008 3:49 PM ()

well I sure hope the "treatment" works

comment by panthurdreams on June 23, 2008 4:38 PM ()

Hi Hawaii, my friend said it could've gone the other way--
that disc might have impinged even more rather than getting
better.
PS I read that native Hawaii-ans want to go back to their
historical monarchy and were having a sit in protest.
How interesting!

reply by susil on June 24, 2008 6:05 AM ()

I'm celebrating your tingling improvement, although I'm hoping your physical therapy has something to do with it, too.

comment by marta on June 23, 2008 4:22 PM ()

Hi marta; well since the tingling didn't occur till
aftr the coughing fit, I'm thinking that's what did it.
(I told the PT she might try the coughing treatment on
some of her clients--you can imagine the look I got, LOL)

reply by susil on June 24, 2008 6:00 AM ()

comment by ducky on June 23, 2008 2:43 PM ()

Thanks ducky!

reply by susil on June 23, 2008 3:57 PM ()