For months Jamie Hart continued to work with no idea he had a collapsed vertebra.
When Jamie Hart was sent for an X-ray on his painful neck he was not expecting to be diagnosed with incurable blood cancer and told he was one wrong move away from paralysis.For months he continued coaching football and going to work, with no idea he had a collapsed vertebra."My spinal cord could have snapped at any time, worst-case scenario I could have been paralysed."
Back in August 2016, Jamie, who was then 49, started feeling lethargic and had a pain in the back of his neck.Jamie had no idea he had been walking around with a collapsed vertebra in his lower neck"It felt like my neck wasn't attached."While he waited he continued working his very physical job at Bettws leisure centre and coaching a football team.The radiographer asked him to wait "a moment" and left the room. She was gone for 20 minutes.
"I thought she'd forgotten about me but the next thing you know there's a doctor there who said, 'stay there, don't move, we've seen some abnormal images on your neck'," said Jamie. The doctor explained he had a collapsed vertebra in his lower neck and had to be placed in a spinal collar to avoid paralysis.Jamie needed an operation to stabilise his neckAn operation to stabilise his neck followed.
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