Hi There, my name is wendy, I am 49 years old and I live in , ct. I had my surgery 9 days ago. Right now I am reclining in my bed at my inpatient rehab (which has been great by the way). I was reading this forum for about 2 weeks before my operation and tried to post before this but had to wait for administration to allow me. I have my laptop with me so I guess later is better than never.
The first that Dr Bomback said to me was that he got my curve from 47 degrees (lumbar) to 7 degrees. He initially thought he would only be able to get me in the 20's which still would have been great but after he saw my bending xray he felt he would be able to get me almost perfectly straight-and he did. My upper curve is slight and he said that the lower correction has pretty much taken care of it.My correction goes from my tailbone to T10.
I have pain but it is being managed as well as can be expected. I will be in this rehab center in Bethany, Ct probably for another week and then will probably have visiting nurses come to my home. I'd like to go home sooner but I'm afraid that my 5 year old would just torture me and herself with wanting me to play. Right now I pretty much do PT and sleep! But I am coming along at a rate that the folks here are pretty amazed by. I can walk without assistance of any kind (but not for long because it hurts).....and I can basically 'do' all my self care. I was worried about all of that-how incapacitated I would be and actually it is much less than I thought it would be but I also didn't realize how careful I had to be in so many ways. I have to be so careful and I have trouble getting comfortable at night. I have major nightsweats because of the meds. The nurses say this is normal.
I can't wait to hear about how others are doing. I know that there were a few whose surgery dates were in a few days of mine.
wendy
surgery oct 6,2008
lumbar curve corrected from 47 to 7 degrees
currently inpatient rehab and doing great.
The first that Dr Bomback said to me was that he got my curve from 47 degrees (lumbar) to 7 degrees. He initially thought he would only be able to get me in the 20's which still would have been great but after he saw my bending xray he felt he would be able to get me almost perfectly straight-and he did. My upper curve is slight and he said that the lower correction has pretty much taken care of it.My correction goes from my tailbone to T10.
I have pain but it is being managed as well as can be expected. I will be in this rehab center in Bethany, Ct probably for another week and then will probably have visiting nurses come to my home. I'd like to go home sooner but I'm afraid that my 5 year old would just torture me and herself with wanting me to play. Right now I pretty much do PT and sleep! But I am coming along at a rate that the folks here are pretty amazed by. I can walk without assistance of any kind (but not for long because it hurts).....and I can basically 'do' all my self care. I was worried about all of that-how incapacitated I would be and actually it is much less than I thought it would be but I also didn't realize how careful I had to be in so many ways. I have to be so careful and I have trouble getting comfortable at night. I have major nightsweats because of the meds. The nurses say this is normal.
I can't wait to hear about how others are doing. I know that there were a few whose surgery dates were in a few days of mine.
wendy
surgery oct 6,2008
lumbar curve corrected from 47 to 7 degrees
currently inpatient rehab and doing great.
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