Yesterday I had an MRI, Mylegram, CT, and multiple Xrays. DrP, my spine doctor scheduled surgery for Jan 14, 2014. He wants me to lose 20 pounds over the next two months. I can start tomorrow. Today I had to stay in bed until after 1pm, and now I can only sit up in my easy chair the rest of the afternoon.
He will open me from the front and get to the front of the spine where he will scrape clean two crumbled discs and insert cages. Then he will fill the cages with my own bone marrow taken from my hip. The cages will be screwed onto the spine and then he'll close the front. Then I will be moved onto my front and he will open the back. He will secure rods to the spine. Then he will remove some bone from my spine and release a nerve which is being pinched and causing my right hip and leg a lot of PAIN. Then he'll close me up. He told us that I'll be in the hospital for a week.
DrP said it was a dangerous surgery (always is when it involves the spine) but I will be glad to have it done. I am taking a lot of pain medicine right now. I am truly relieved that my right hip and leg won't hurt for the rest of my life!
Then he told me that I will eventually have to have more surgery on my back but we'll put that off as long as possible.
What a day!
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