United Brachial Plexus Network

<t>Hi Mike<br/> I did actually go to Chicago for pain management. We were referred to a doctor there by another pain specialist from NY. My husband did all the research and we were willing to go anywhere. I live in Northern Illinois, about an hour North of Chicago. It was a few years back when I wen...

Hi Eric
Where do you live? Once you post that a TON of people will be able to help-and we would love to do anything we can.

Kath

<t>By amputating it will never relieve us of pain but for some its very heavy dead weight and a hanging useless arm gets in the way. Unless wearing a sling all day doesn't bother you?? BUT it IS a very personal decision and I would never tell anyone to do it or not to do it. I have read many posts (...

<r>Nay<br/> I know you are looking for help in the SS area and that has been a topic here before. Here is the link I found but if you research it here you find several of them. Good luck. <br/> <URL url="http://ubpn.org/messageboard/thread.jspa?forumID=19&threadID=30536&messageID=282516#2825...

I say go for it, Mardelle, I would LOVE to see them!!!!

<t>I disagree. having heard many people talk, and our levels of injury are all different, some people are dealing with the weight of dead arm with no possible regain of movement. "To each's its own". <br/> We are here to support each other. No one ever has amputated their arm, on these boards anyway...

<t>Hi<br/> I don't know if you ever tried to pull this sight up but if you are reading this than you found it! <br/> I hope I didn't over whelm you but when I looked at your little boy I just knew. I felt I had to share this sight with you because it has saved me in so many different ways. I hope yo...

you have so many surgeries, I never know. You realy need to get a job there, you've been on every floor and seen a ton of different docs in different areas! LOL
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Angela
Is this our surgery by Dr E?

Kath

I just bought 5 t-shirts in x-Large. Cheap Old Navy ones that cost $5 each.

just wondering, Mardelle, who are your doctors and where do you go? (hosp/clinic)

Kathleen
22 years of BPI (87)
C5,6 and 7 avulsed
39 yrs old
Chicago, IL