Thanks to Sierra Wynk….
A concerning note on little brother….
And speaking of his brother…we received some difficult news this weekend.
Hudson has the same congenital spinal stenosis that Parker has.
He’s devastated because it means he cannot continue playing football or catcher in baseball.
In his 12-year-old mind, he’s trying to figure out who has it worse—his brother or him—because he only got five games and his brother got five years and almost a half a game. 💔
Please pray for Hudson’s peace and for his joy to remain, and that God directs his steps to what’s next for him.
Congenital spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal that someone is born with, not something that develops later from wear, arthritis, or injury.
The spinal cord and nerves run through the spinal canal. With this condition, the canal is just unusually small from birth, often because the pedicles (the bony struts on either side of the canal) are shorter than normal.
A few things worth knowing:
• It can affect any part of the spine, though it’s most often talked about in the neck (cervical) and lower back (lumbar).
• Plenty of people with it never have symptoms. It just means there’s less room around the nerves, so problems can show up earlier in life or with less provocation than usual.
• When it does cause symptoms, they look like typical stenosis: pain, numbness, tingling, or weakness in the arms or legs. In the neck it can also cause myelopathy, which is compression of the spinal cord itself.
• It’s often not discovered until symptoms appear and someone gets imaging done.
Watching steps by Parker —-
