@dmg777
Hi, Dan.

It does sound like your wife may need surgery to fix her shoulder injury where she already had surgery. She may also need cervical spine surgery to stabilize her neck if there is disc degeneration. Bone spurs/osteophytes can form and put pressure on or pinch nerve roots/nerves and even spinal cord. A neurologist can tell you with EMG/nerve conduction studies if there is a spinal nerve being compressed and causing radiating symptoms in arms/hands (radiculopathy). Spinal cord compression can be weakness/numbness in arms/hands where you drop things or handwriting worsens. Cervical spine can also affect bowel/bladder control and walking/legs. I had ACDF surgery on c5-c6 and will have c6-c7 done next month (May). I have degenerative cervical myelopathy spinal cord compression injury and radiculopathy plus carpal tunnel.

For you, I would focus on ensuring you had cervical, thoracic, lumbar and pelvis/hip MRIs and abdominal ultrasound to see how your spine and abdominal organs were affected/injured by the fall of the refrigerator and dolly onto you. I’m assuming you had some impact with the stairs, too. Your ribcage/sternum and liver/kidneys, gallbladder/pancreas or stomach/spleen could have been injured. You want to get to the bottom of the unexplained weight loss. I was reading about adrenal gland injury (near kidneys) causing unexplained weight loss (Addison’s disease https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/addisons-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20350293).