Okay - I finally (LOL!), at 35 days post-op, remembered to get measured by some accurate method.
The hospital (oddly) didn't have height bars on the scales, and (*doh!) I FORGOT to get them to measure me at my 3 weeks post-op visit!
So ...
Yesterday, my daughter and I were at my Mom's: She has a doctor's scale with the height bar, and ...
I'm only 1/4" taller!!
(I expected a LITTLE more ... the estimate was 1 to 1-1/2" pre-op)
Anyway, I got to looking at my sagittal pre-op vs. sagittal post-op x-rays. I had almost NO natural kyphosis pre-op. My theory (and of *course* I'm sending Hanson an email to ask - lol) is any height increase was absorbed into the shaping of the rods to build normal kyphosis.
Sound feasible? I can't imagine what else would have made the vertical difference so small when I was a 2 rotation, and ±53° curvature ...
Look at what I mean ...
Pre-op sagittal (almost NO kyphosis)
Post-op sagittal (normal kyphosis).
Regards,
Pam
The hospital (oddly) didn't have height bars on the scales, and (*doh!) I FORGOT to get them to measure me at my 3 weeks post-op visit!
So ...
Yesterday, my daughter and I were at my Mom's: She has a doctor's scale with the height bar, and ...
I'm only 1/4" taller!!
(I expected a LITTLE more ... the estimate was 1 to 1-1/2" pre-op)
Anyway, I got to looking at my sagittal pre-op vs. sagittal post-op x-rays. I had almost NO natural kyphosis pre-op. My theory (and of *course* I'm sending Hanson an email to ask - lol) is any height increase was absorbed into the shaping of the rods to build normal kyphosis.
Sound feasible? I can't imagine what else would have made the vertical difference so small when I was a 2 rotation, and ±53° curvature ...
Look at what I mean ...
Pre-op sagittal (almost NO kyphosis)
Post-op sagittal (normal kyphosis).
Regards,
Pam
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