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Or you could do what I do, crawl.
Chester Worwa
--- Rayna Lamb <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> You got the spelling right Bobby, it is wry neck. I
> developed the
> condition myself a couple of months ago. Tripped
> and fell on the way
> to the bathroom one night and cracked my head on the
> bathroom door,
> luckily it wasn't latched or I would have knocked
> myself out - or
> worse. As it was, I pinched the nerves in my neck
> and two weeks later
> woke up unable to move my head or neck. My neck had
> locked with my
> head facing over my right shoulder. Couldn't walk
> in a straight line,
> only walking round in a spiral fashion, spent the
> entire day in the ED
> of the local hospital. I had a matching wry
> expression on my face!!
> It was extraordinarly painful. And I panic now
> whenever I have a
> sneezing fit, I can feel it just dying to lock
> again.
>
> Moral of the story, boys and girls: ALWAYS turn the
> light on when you
> get up in the middle of the night to go anywhere!!
>
> Rayna
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 12:44:46PM -0500, Bobby
> Greer wrote:
> Torticollis is a spasm like
> condition in the muscle running down the side of
> the neck an connection to
> the collar bone on the lower end and behinf the
> neck below the skull on the
> upper end. It is sometime called "wry
> neck"(sp?). Makes the head
> move down and sideways.
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