As #InvisibleDisabilitiesWeek winds down, allow me to explain my condition. #Syringomyelia (sear-in-go-my-eelia) is when fluid-filled cysts form in the centre of the spinal cord, hollowing out the cord and compressing/damaging the spinal cord and nerves in that area. This cyst is called a syrinx (sear-inks).
These are my MRI images from 2005/6, after my first surgery but before my second. I have two syrinxes: the wider from the 4th cervical vertebra to the 1st thoracic, and the narrower from my 2nd thoracic to the 11th (C4-T1 and T2-T11).