Hey All,
I'm two weeks post op (It's 1AM and I can't sleep...)
I went in on Sept 15th and my surgery took from 8am to 3pm, I stayed overnight intubated in the orthopedic special care unit. Was supposed to goto step-down room first than to a regular room but I skipped directly to a regular room.
Next time I'm at HSS I'll...um stay in OSCU longer. Free larger screen TV vs. little tiny pay-per-day TV in general room. (kidding bad reason to want a higher lever room)
Overall great care except for one lazy day shift nurse. Everyone else involved were fantastic. Also... apparently HSS is where all the nice, athletic male nurses work at in NYC. Got a blood transfusion of one unit on Wed/Thursday because my counts stayed low and I was getting dizzy and nauseous every time PT came by to try to get me walking. Before I actually got the transfusion I ended up tossing my cookies just from taking few steps away from my bed and back. Since I hadn't eaten much all I brought up was ginger ale and bile w/ chunks of meds. Gross... TMI I know.
I got discharged on Monday 22nd, two days later than planned because my bowels didn't want to corporate. It took all HSS had in their bowel regimen to get my bowels to release... I had bowel sounds right away but just didn't want to let anything go.
Being home has been OK so far. Have bad hours and good hours. Already had my visiting nurse and home PT stop in and supposed to get a health aid as well for help with showers and stuff.
Oh and last and most importantly my surgeon got a better correction than we expected and I'm fused from T3 to L3 as it was planned.
Attachment is the picture of a printout I have - will eventually get a CD.
3 rods because surgeon's preference was to use cobalt chrome and I requested the use of titanium instead so it'd be less noisy/artifacty on MRI scans, which I need to get at least once a year. Anyway titanium is weaker than cobalt so he wanted to boost the strength to prevent a rod break.
I'm two weeks post op (It's 1AM and I can't sleep...)
I went in on Sept 15th and my surgery took from 8am to 3pm, I stayed overnight intubated in the orthopedic special care unit. Was supposed to goto step-down room first than to a regular room but I skipped directly to a regular room.
Next time I'm at HSS I'll...um stay in OSCU longer. Free larger screen TV vs. little tiny pay-per-day TV in general room. (kidding bad reason to want a higher lever room)
Overall great care except for one lazy day shift nurse. Everyone else involved were fantastic. Also... apparently HSS is where all the nice, athletic male nurses work at in NYC. Got a blood transfusion of one unit on Wed/Thursday because my counts stayed low and I was getting dizzy and nauseous every time PT came by to try to get me walking. Before I actually got the transfusion I ended up tossing my cookies just from taking few steps away from my bed and back. Since I hadn't eaten much all I brought up was ginger ale and bile w/ chunks of meds. Gross... TMI I know.
I got discharged on Monday 22nd, two days later than planned because my bowels didn't want to corporate. It took all HSS had in their bowel regimen to get my bowels to release... I had bowel sounds right away but just didn't want to let anything go.
Being home has been OK so far. Have bad hours and good hours. Already had my visiting nurse and home PT stop in and supposed to get a health aid as well for help with showers and stuff.
Oh and last and most importantly my surgeon got a better correction than we expected and I'm fused from T3 to L3 as it was planned.
Attachment is the picture of a printout I have - will eventually get a CD.
3 rods because surgeon's preference was to use cobalt chrome and I requested the use of titanium instead so it'd be less noisy/artifacty on MRI scans, which I need to get at least once a year. Anyway titanium is weaker than cobalt so he wanted to boost the strength to prevent a rod break.
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