I have a spinal stimulator implanted in my back, that helps deaden my back pain. The pain is from damage from arthritis and essentially has eaten away at my entire spine, it looks grey on MRI instead of white. Today I was going in for another MRI to see how my back is progressing and I attempted to put the stimulator in MRI mode. They can't be running while they do the scan and will burn up, if left on. The damn thing wouldn't go into MRI mode and then wouldn't go back into therapy mode. The reps will not be available until Thursday, to try and do anything about it, but it's looking like "it's dead Jim". The problem is probably in the leads according to the reps description over the phone, which means I have to get a new one. While this one was over 5 years old it still had battery life left and I hadn't planned on replacing it this year. So now I have a dead piece of plastic and metal riding around in my back, until I can get it fixed or removed. All the while I have lost the benefit of having some protection, from my back pain. Yay me. Just needed someplace to vent, thanks for playing. No range time for me for a while.
