Look After Your Body!! You Only Get One!

Friday afternnoon; and as promised Im writing in my blog, though this time Im writing to vent, nothing to do with real estate.
As part of keeping my self healthy since my retiring from my professional dance career, Ive been working out at a gym across the street from my work. Stretching, cardio, some weights, then some more stretching. I thought Id go a little harder on the weight the last few weeks. Slowly I notice a bit of pain shooting from my shoulder-blade the next day. I ignore the pain as I always have throughout my career, and push through. After a couple of weeks, I notice a little numbing of my right hand and I lose strength in my hand. Ok, I think I better speak to someone....
I call one of my old favourite physios, Marla, and ask, "I can't use my arm, do you think there is something wrong"? She calls me into her clinic straight away and checks me out and commences treatment. Ive compressed a nerve in my C5/C6 spine.
After a week of intense physio and massage, there is no noticeable improvement so Marla sets me up to see the head physician of the clinic, someone Ive seen a few times before during my dancing days.
After seeing him, Marla came into the consultation room with me, the doc orders immediate x-rays. I get them done across the hall and they scoot right back to him on his computer screen. He calls me over. He showed me my rays, asking if I'd ever had a major trauma to my neck. Not that I can remember I say. We as dancers dealt with lots of pain everyday, just another pain I suspect. He shows me that there is little to no disc between my vertebrae and is compressing my nerve. Also the vertebrae where the injury is looks quite different to the others. OI VAY! No wonder. So he has ordered an MRI asap to see whats going on.
And that's where we stand right now.
You probably don't realise that this has just taken me about an hour to type this blog, most of which is to correct all the mistake I made fumbling around with my right hand. So frustrating.
Ill keep you posted of what happens next, though one day I will realise that I only have one body and need to look after it.
I guess I should call my parents before they read this before I tell them!!..

Look after your body!