Hi Everyone,

 I have been dealing with upper body RSD going on for 9 years now, last year my back started hurting and the pain specialist has been doing upper eppidurals for it, now I have had 3 nasty back injuries ..one of them a compression fractured 8th theractic vertabre(right whrer the sympathetic nerves come out and go up and out to my arms.

 Now the really bad news, yesterday out of the blue my mis back...a little off to the sides of my spine started to hurt so bad I had to be driven to the hospital, thought I was having a heart attack or another blood clot was giving me a problen....it was neither....its a cancer tumor on the Adrenal gland! They did a cat scan and this time because of where the pain was comming from they went a little lower than they did in Feburary when I had blood clots in both lungs. Apearantly the back pain I have been complaining about wasnt my back at all, its been comming from a tumor about 2 cm in length an laying on my right kidney.

 My heart is in the basement right now, it is just one bad thing after another! I turned 55 this year, I dont know the old man in the mirror when I look anymore. I do not want to be cut on or even be on the table again...im ready to throw in the towel. It is so hard to stay positive when its just one serious thing after another, I ask my self why did I survive the pulmonary embolisms in both lungs? for this?

 

Frank