Arthritis and bright pink crutches!

Hi again!

Today I got good news and bad news. I'll start with the bad news...

I had an x-ray on my neck last week and today I got the results. To be honest, I was half expecting nothing to show up and that id have to fight them to believe I was in pain, which is what normally happens. I was also half expecting to be told my neck looks like an almost-over game of jenga with bits all out of place. I wasnt at all expecting to be told I have osteo-arthritis in my neck. But, apparently I do.

Arthritis, two weeks before I turn 23 is kind of brain boggling to think about. I dont think the doctor expected me to laugh when she told me, oops. Apparently I dont have a curve in my neck either which is also bad. I think, from what the doctor briefly explained, my ehlers-danlos meant the ligaments got too stretchy which meant my muscles over worked and caused the weird straight neck thing and then the extra impact from that caused the osteo-arthritis...or something like that. So I have to have physio. And my main dissapointment is that this definitely means no more headbanging, which sucks, because im not really sure how to dance any way other than jumping around and flailing my hair all over.

But, I promised good news......drum roll.....I got bright pink crutches!!!!! I saw these on another girls blog (google 'eds lottie', her blog is really good) a while back and thought they looked awesome. After my quasimodo week from my last post I decided it was time to get them! They are so cool. They're called Smart Crutches, if anyone is interested and you can get them in pretty much any colour.

They've got this whole bit to lean your forearms on so theres less pressure on your shoulders and the feet bend around so you can lean on them pretty much anyway you like! Fingers crossed, this means I no longer have to sit on the floor in public because I hurt too much from standing up!

So, my neck looks like "what we expect in someone at least over 45" (doctors words) but I got awesome pink crutches! Ive posted a picture of them and im hoping it works but this is my first post using the app so im not sure what im doing and this camera is potato quality.

Anyway, this was rambly but if you read right through, thank you!!