Hello everyone and thank you all for your kind words, kind thoughts and prayers. They all helped.
Jamie's surgery was Tuesday and today is Sunday and she is home already! They were going to send her home yesterday, but her bowels hadn't moved yet, so they kept her until today. She went into surgery very calmly at 7:45 a.m. and they had trouble starting IV's and other lines so surgery didn't really get started until 10:15 a.m. She was in recovery by 5:00 p.m. She was very swollen and the nurses in recovery said she was 50% better than we she arrived in recovery and thankfully the swelling didn't last long at all, in fact you could almost watch it disappear. What surprised me the most was they had an IV, I guess you would call in her neck and worse yet was a tube down her nose and into her stomach. That one we didn't expect. Had to try three different pain meds until we found one that takes care of her pain. I was so amazed at how little pain she actually had. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst pain she only ever went up to about a 3 or 4. For the most part pain was always a 1 or 2. My concern is that they only gave her pain meds for one week and I've read on here that some people are on prescription meds for week.
Her numbers look great! Her Kyphosis went from about 73* to about 35* and her Scoliosis went from about 46* to maybe 15*. Her back looks wonderful! They did some osteotomies (hope I spelled that right) on her and used that bone for the fusion and some artificial bone material as well. She still has a slight hump but we can live with that. They ended up fusing from T3-L2 and original plan had been to fuse T2-L2. So things went pretty much as planned.
Thanks again for all your support.
Mary Lou
Jamie's surgery was Tuesday and today is Sunday and she is home already! They were going to send her home yesterday, but her bowels hadn't moved yet, so they kept her until today. She went into surgery very calmly at 7:45 a.m. and they had trouble starting IV's and other lines so surgery didn't really get started until 10:15 a.m. She was in recovery by 5:00 p.m. She was very swollen and the nurses in recovery said she was 50% better than we she arrived in recovery and thankfully the swelling didn't last long at all, in fact you could almost watch it disappear. What surprised me the most was they had an IV, I guess you would call in her neck and worse yet was a tube down her nose and into her stomach. That one we didn't expect. Had to try three different pain meds until we found one that takes care of her pain. I was so amazed at how little pain she actually had. On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the worst pain she only ever went up to about a 3 or 4. For the most part pain was always a 1 or 2. My concern is that they only gave her pain meds for one week and I've read on here that some people are on prescription meds for week.
Her numbers look great! Her Kyphosis went from about 73* to about 35* and her Scoliosis went from about 46* to maybe 15*. Her back looks wonderful! They did some osteotomies (hope I spelled that right) on her and used that bone for the fusion and some artificial bone material as well. She still has a slight hump but we can live with that. They ended up fusing from T3-L2 and original plan had been to fuse T2-L2. So things went pretty much as planned.
Thanks again for all your support.
Mary Lou
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