Angus Tong

Over 6 months since my last surgery. Not much different on my pain level. Currently no other treatment could fix or help with my pain. Started seeing pain specialist couple of months ago. Doctor prescribed me with some nerve pain medication last time for trial. It didn’t help with any pain relief, in fact I have put up over 5kg because of the medication. I have now prescribed with a different kind of medication which also treat the nerve pain a couple of days ago to try for the next 3 weeks. I will have to try different kind of medications to see which one of them works on me.
Still a long way before the insurance case settle. I have found the insurance company will not give a shit of your situation and/or status. All they do is to ignore or make your life even harder when you request for assistance. I did not think I have been treated well at all compare to other people with the similar situation. Just hoping everything settle very soon…

A new year just started, and I’m another year older. Things has changed since last year, is time to move forward. New job, new living arrangement, are not easy in the beginning. With the injury, things even harder to start with.
Very disappointed with the insurance not given enough assistance and taking so long for everything from the beginning. Just hoping things going smooth and start to get some sort of movements on the claim. In terms of my condition, just hoping it will get better and the medication can help. Can’t feel much different with the new medication, but will give it another few weeks to try it out until my next consultation. Can’t wait to get these over and have my normal life…

Been about 5 months since I had my last surgery. I’m still having problem with the pain. The scan result showing a bit of damage on the nerve. Visited the Pain Specialist today and spent about an hour there for the consultation. He suggested me to try this drugs and see that would control the pain. If this works, I might need to continue taking that for the next few years or even longer. Not sure what’s the side effect from the drugs as yet…

Just over a year ago when I suffered the spinal injury from the car accident. After lying in bed, support from the walking stick and 2 surgeries, thought everything would be over. Had another MRI scan and revisit with the surgeon, the surgeries were successful but appear suspected permanent injury on the nerve. Showing swollen on the nerve that causes the pain. There is no time frame on when it’s going to heal, unfortunately there is no medicine or other way to make it better. The surgeon referred me to the pain specialist and see if they could help me to reduce and control the pain. Just hope that will heal faster, I can’t live with that forever…

It has been a while since I’ve update this blog. Was busy putting my life back together.
Just over 2 months since I have started my hydrotherapy, twice a week and going well so far, building back the muscle on my legs. Currently still on the pain killers, because I’m still getting the pain. I’m due to go back to the surgeon in a few weeks time for follow up and assessment.
A year after the accident, I’m now starting to get some assistance from the insurance company. A good start! It has been a very difficult time for the past year. Being at home every day is a nightmare. I’m so lucky to find a new job and start my new career. It is not easy for me to drive 45 minutes to and 30 minutes from work every day and haven’t been working for almost a year. I have to carry the pain killers with me at all time and take regular breaks. Just hoping the pain not going to be permanent and recover very soon…