Cervical arthritis

[Catrin]

Oh man, I am not happy about this, but you know, that is life. Due to my recent injury my doctor ordered an x-ray, and thankfully found no sign of fractures in my neck (yayyyy!) They did, however, find moderate arthritis (which he called degenerative disc disease, or is that something else?), which might well explain why my neck strain is taking so long to heal. They also want to do a bone density test as there were apparently signs of that problem in the x-ray as well.

They strongly want to do an MRI to make certain that there aren't other issues, they seem concerned that some of my pain is nerve...which means that I should get the MRI...well, the hospital will simply have to take payments.

I just can't get my mom out of my mind. She has terrible osteoarthritis in many parts of her body, but it is worse in her cervical spine...Hopefully I won't really take after her in this department