How did you become partially paralyzed?

Well this happened in 2012 when I first started to work for GIMC in Gallup, NM. This week they would be training me to clean inside the operating rooms. So this means we are dressed head to toe in scrubs, haircovers, shoe covers, and just waiting to clean any rooms that have been used and finished. Usually they ask for a terminal clean, which is disinfecting the operating rooms. Now you are probably wondering, how did you injury your back? Well I was working with a female that my mom hired a while back when she was still working as a Supervisor, but this lady did not teach me how to move the operating tables and I tried to do it manually, but nope something snapped and from that day forward my back would never be the same. Of course it was an ongoing issue, because my family is always trying to throw a wrench into the system, but I’m too smart for that. So now I would look forward to dealing with a neurologist, provider, and anyone else that I would need to see in order to cope with years of feeling pain with something as little as a hug.

The term “love hurts” really fit at this point since now I was in the emergency room every month just to get put on Morphine for the pain I would feel all during the day. One day the pain would get so bad and vicious that I was rushed to the hospital because I was convulsing and dealing with these really back body aches. That was the first time I would go to Rehoboth for help, but the next time I would get sent to GIMC and while in the emergency room, the doctor wanted to perform the procedure to make sure there was no color change in my spinal fluid, but the after effects did not go unnoticed. Eventually I would start to lose the feeling and strength in my legs to be a normal person. Aside from hospital visits, I would be having various ceremonies to correct what had been done. In some aspects I had to just go through it before people really see.

Now it’s been a bit of time, but then I had to get Toradol shots all the time to cope with the pain once I was able to walk again after years of physical therapy and acupuncture sessions with Dr. Wei. I think that is the best thing that I have felt, but when it comes to being a traditional native, that means that I also have to do my part on recovering, so I start strengthening my core, lost weight, and then I started to take ice baths to shock my system and also train myself about mind over matter. The coldest that I have sat in is 57 degrees fahrenheit and I do this every morning or whenever the water is the coldest and I would only be in there for 5 minutes, but it pays off after awhile, because you start to see that you are not phased by the temperature and it helps my mental health. Would you try an ice bath?