Hi Phil,

I'm praying for you that the pain will totally be gone.

I'm praying for complete healing for you.


Thanks much.

Many Blessings,

Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me" Philippians 4:13.


At 11:13 PM 8/16/2015, you wrote:
>Since mid March of this year, I have had a place 
>at the bottom of my neck that feels like a 
>twisted, or pulled, muscle.  When it is 
>inflamed, it flickers off and on like flipping a 
>switch.  The pain is so sharp, it feels like a 
>big bumble bee stinging me.  By the way, stay 
>away from bumble bees because they don’t lose 
>their stingers like honey bees do and they can 
>sting you multiple times.  I knew a guy working 
>on the farm once and he had a bumble bee fly up 
>his overalls and jeans he was wearing.  He said 
>it stung him 28 times before he finally crush 
>the thing in the fabric of his 
>clothing.  Ouch!  Anyway, after my last lower 
>back surgery, this spot at the bottom of my 
>neck, and partly on my shoulder where the two 
>meet, hurt.  I figured it was just the left 
>overs of the surgeries, I had 4 operations in 
>three months on the exact same spot of my lower 
>back, and it only hurt when I was eating.  I am 
>right handed and it is my right shoulder and the 
>cord running up the left and right sides up your 
>neck.  Well, my right cord, whatever it is 
>called, when really inflamed, feels like a thumb 
>thickness piece of frozen rope and it hurts so 
>badly, I have to hold my head over to the left 
>and, this go around, I have to bend my head 
>forward.  I think it is all related to my 
>improper way I have to walk but I cannot change 
>that due to the nerve damage in my feet and 
>legs.  Most of you recall my neck surgery in 
>January of   09.  The neurosurgeon told me after 
>the 5 hour and 30 minute surgical procedure that 
>there was another area of the vertebras in my 
>neck that he considered working on but he said 
>it looked very old, that is, like I was born 
>with the spine that way so he did not want to 
>fiddle with something that did not need 
>something done to it due to it causing problems 
>I don’t need.  I have never had any 
>reoccurring neurological physical bodily 
>symptoms since that surgery so I’m trusting 
>what I am asking for prayer about right now 
>isn’t related to what I just described.  When 
>I was a kid, I wondered where the saying, you 
>are a pain in the neck, came from.  Now I know, 
>haw haw.  Anyhow, last Wednesday, I had a sudden 
>flash of pain that took my breath away.  Now I 
>know where the saying, it took my breath away, 
>came from, too.  Haw haw.  Well, I’m not 
>laughing but it is sort of funny.  I was doing 
>very well yesterday, all day, and today but when 
>I went to shave with my safety razor, when I 
>tried shaving the right side of my face, pain 
>shot across my shoulder and part way up my 
>neck.  Fortunately, I was able to finish shaving 
>but my neck feels like there is a horse collar 
>on it and I still have the bumble bee effect 
>that slams me without warning.  As I said, this 
>really began, in ernest, last March and finally 
>let up so it was tolerable.  It flared up last 
>Wednesday and now I am getting tired of it.  I 
>need prayer about what to do as far as it being 
>seen by a doctor.  As I said, I personally think 
>it has to do with my unbalanced way I have to 
>walk and unless I am healed, or some surgeon can 
>fix whatever is wrong, it does not appear it is 
>going to heal on its own.  My youngest son’s 
>fiance is a massage therapist and she won’t 
>even touch me because she is afraid she might 
>make, water is wrong, worse than it is now.  So, 
>pray for healing and what I do about it now.
>
>Phil.