So its been 9 months since my stenosis produced the painful and disabling symptoms I shared earlier. I’m pleased to report that I am mostly back to normal, other than being measurably weaker than I was in January. This remarkable
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro My rating: 4 of 5 stars While this is definitely a good book and worth reading, I can never tell with these highly personal memoirs if the writer is
Mark Gunther, Medical Mystery
I have radiculopathy, pressure on the spinal nerves, caused by stenosis. Except my symptoms, weakness in the calves and feet, do not match the evidence seen on the MRI. Calf weakness should be driven by the nerves that exit from
Monkeys by Susan Minot My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’ve been a huge fan of Minot, but this one didn’t touch me so deeply. It doesn’t have the sophistication of her later works, although the core of her style
Stenotic Cycling
The theme of this experience with stenosis is definitely a fragility-of-life/transience-of-experience thing. While I’ve derived much of my purpose in these early years of my retirement from physical competence, I can’t deny the slow decline of these capacities. In the