#therapydogthursday 🐾 Like any weekday morning, Nora was getting ready for a full day of school and soccer practice to follow. She was curling her hair with a curling iron one morning, as she often did, but that morning, she accidentally scorched her skin. Although burning her skin was shocking, what stunned her was that she felt no pain. Nora and her family suspected that she likely pinched a nerve while playing competitive soccer, which caused her to lose her sensation. Nora's mom, Lauren, made a appointment with a doctor - which led to numerous physical therapy visits for many months - but the numbness in her arm persisted. It was an MRI, however, that determined the cause of numbness in her arm. Results indicated that Nora, in fact, had holocord syrinx, meaning fluid was building in the spinal cord, which was expanding and killing her nerves. If left untreated, it would eventually lead her to become paraplegic/quadriplegic. On the third day of recovery chp_picu after brain su...