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Janet- How neat is that? I knew it would be a good day for it! Perhaps we can meet up again for coffee before the surgery, goodness knows its nice to get out sometimes!
Elisa- They want to examine the area posteriorly first and replace the rods, then they will stabilize further from the front. And actually, its not a true anterior, its an anterior/lateral approach. Because of all of the non-unions the surgeon wants to "get in there" and determine why the rods keep failing and the non-unions keep occurring. They need to go in from the back to determine if the tethered cord has something to do with it, see if there is an underlying infection, or if it really is simply that my old surgeon did not prepare the area fully. There is a huge possibility that there is more than one cause for the non-unions, so they want to identify that first. He said that what is going on in the back will determine what they need to do in the front.
Elisa- They want to examine the area posteriorly first and replace the rods, then they will stabilize further from the front. And actually, its not a true anterior, its an anterior/lateral approach. Because of all of the non-unions the surgeon wants to "get in there" and determine why the rods keep failing and the non-unions keep occurring. They need to go in from the back to determine if the tethered cord has something to do with it, see if there is an underlying infection, or if it really is simply that my old surgeon did not prepare the area fully. There is a huge possibility that there is more than one cause for the non-unions, so they want to identify that first. He said that what is going on in the back will determine what they need to do in the front.
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