Hi!! I just have to post this (after so many whining and depressive ones)...This is a GREAT day for me!! I woke up this morning feeling better than i have felt in a LONG time... i hopped out of bed, turned around and made it up... and was in the bathroom puttering around before i realized that i didn't even have my cane or any pain!!! I went to the kitchen, bent down and picked up the doggie bowl and filled it and put it back down... got the milk out of the fridge.... lol... all such routine things but things that i have had trouble doing for a while.... it is wonderful to be able to regain some of the abilities that i used to take so for granted! For anyone who is still recovering... don't despair... the good days are waiting just ahead... it will be YOUR great day next!!!!
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I had 3 surgeries in one week... Oct. 7, Oct. 10, and Oct. 13.... so that makes it 5 months post op now ...
I also discovered something last night that i can do now that no one else in the family can do i can flex the muscles across my shoulder blades and you can see a big muscle definition across the middle there... Almost freaked me out when i first saw it! i went and asked the boys and hubby if they could flex their back muscles, and they all tried but couldn't. Made me laugh and feel kinda special that i could do something with my muscles that those big men couldn't do...lol..
Thanks to all for the encouragement. Things DO get better, just the way you said they would. JoAnn
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Congratulations...keep up the good work and enjoy the rest of your day!Brandi
Congenital Scoliosis, 58* lumbar curve
Combined Anterior/Posterior Spinal Fusion w/Laminectomy May 22, 2006
L1-S1
Dr. William Lauerman
Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC
Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomy @ L3, Posterior Spinal Fusion L2-L4, rod removal with re-instrumentation T10-S1 and Laminectomy February 5, 2009 to correct flatback
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LOL Joann, good for you
I also have found that I can bend really quickly with my knees, and others still bend at the hips even if I keep telling them that maybe it's one of the reasons that their backs hurt when they do They say it's too hard to bend at the knees.
Take it easy, and hoping you have more good days35 y/old female from Montreal, Canada
Diagnosed with scoliosis(double major) at age 12, wore Boston brace 4 years at least 23 hours a day-curve progressed
Surgery age 26 for 60 degree curve in Oct. 1997 by Dr.Max Aebi-fused T5 to L2
Surgery age 28 for a hook removal in Feb. 1999 by Dr.Max Aebi-pain free for 5 years
Surgery age 34 in Dec.2005 for broken rod replacement, bigger screws and crosslinks added and pseudarthrosis(non union) by Dr. Jean Ouellet
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