Well, I’m sitting here thinking it was 5 years ago that I walked into the hospital for my scoli surgeries. After a 34 year wait, I felt like a fish being reeled in after it gives up in the last 10 feet. The fight was finally over.
I was dropped off by my neighbors, walked in, paid $1000 and sat there and waited around 30 minutes. I then went downstairs and they hooked up an IV. Another 30 minutes later, they wheeled me back upstairs to the staging area by the operating room. My surgeon told me that I wouldn’t see him and that my vascular surgeon would start things off with my anterior He came by and asked me if I was nervous. I told him that I should be, and he then inserted an IV into the top of my wrist in 1.6 seconds and said that they had to get going, we have a long day today....I was out in 4 seconds. Vascular surgeons are really quick with IV’s.....
I woke up around the 6th day, didn’t remember anything other than being woke up by Dr Menmuir asking permission for the second surgery.(posterior) He turned a valve and that was that....What a handy valve! In and out in 2 seconds.
It worked out well even with a 2 year recovery. If I were to do it all over, I would have had surgery at age 40 instead of age 49, and I would have paid for a private room.
I cant say it was the best decision I ever made, since there really was no decision. Waiting till the pain is out of control wasn’t worth it.
Ed
I was dropped off by my neighbors, walked in, paid $1000 and sat there and waited around 30 minutes. I then went downstairs and they hooked up an IV. Another 30 minutes later, they wheeled me back upstairs to the staging area by the operating room. My surgeon told me that I wouldn’t see him and that my vascular surgeon would start things off with my anterior He came by and asked me if I was nervous. I told him that I should be, and he then inserted an IV into the top of my wrist in 1.6 seconds and said that they had to get going, we have a long day today....I was out in 4 seconds. Vascular surgeons are really quick with IV’s.....
I woke up around the 6th day, didn’t remember anything other than being woke up by Dr Menmuir asking permission for the second surgery.(posterior) He turned a valve and that was that....What a handy valve! In and out in 2 seconds.
It worked out well even with a 2 year recovery. If I were to do it all over, I would have had surgery at age 40 instead of age 49, and I would have paid for a private room.
I cant say it was the best decision I ever made, since there really was no decision. Waiting till the pain is out of control wasn’t worth it.
Ed
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