Hi all -- I had my 6 month checkup with Dr. B today, who had nothing but good news -- said my x-rays look very good, with my spine about 70 percent fused. He measured my corrected curve at 12 degrees -- apparently the compensatory part of my thorocolumbar curve straightened out a bit. So I'm now allowed to bend (carefully) and lift up to 10 pounds, and he doesn't need to see me again til I'm one year post-op.
We talked some about how I still have quite a bit of pain. He said that was normal in someone my age (52) with the size of the correction I had -- there was a lot of trauma to the tissues. But he also cleared me to start taking Advil or Aleve, so that will help a lot as I keep weaning slowly off the last of the narcotics. He also said my leg would be fine...it's about 70 percent back to where it should be.
He also pronounced my new figure to be "awesome!" It really is. I was never this straight or symmetrical even as a teen-ager.
Yeah baby !!!!!!!!!!!!
We talked some about how I still have quite a bit of pain. He said that was normal in someone my age (52) with the size of the correction I had -- there was a lot of trauma to the tissues. But he also cleared me to start taking Advil or Aleve, so that will help a lot as I keep weaning slowly off the last of the narcotics. He also said my leg would be fine...it's about 70 percent back to where it should be.
He also pronounced my new figure to be "awesome!" It really is. I was never this straight or symmetrical even as a teen-ager.
Yeah baby !!!!!!!!!!!!
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