Ok friends,
I thought I would start a new thread because I didn't want to take over someone else's thread! My surgery is less then a month away. It is coming up so fast! I thought 11 months would take forever to get here and now it is right around the corner. I guess I am starting to experience the what if's... sigh. Probably the reason I am up at 3 am. I think I might feel a little better after my pre op appointment on the 19th of this month. Not knowing the surgical plan is killing me! While I know, any surgery Dr. Lenke does is big stuff I am wondering if it will be T10- L4/5 or if it will be T4-L4/5 or to the sacrum or a combo of the above. I am making an educated guess that it can't be definitive until he sees my thoracic MRI (have no idea why this was not done at the same time as my consult... but anyway it wasn't) bending Xrays and so forth. I sure would like a one and done surgery...I would hate to fuse just the bottom curve and then need to go back and fuse the top. I am also worried about not fusing to the sacrum because of arthritus issues and degenerative issues that will most likely develop over time. Thank goodness, 12 more days until I have the answer to those questions.
I lie awake at night writing farewell letters in my head to my children. My logical brain tells me I will be fine and come through this surgery but man am I causing myself all sorts of stress. Has anyone else done this? I have run out of things to do to keep busy.Just this week I have packed for my surgery, wrote a poem, read 2 novels, and ordered our Christmas cards. What are some ways that you have all releived anxieties before your surgery?
I thought I would start a new thread because I didn't want to take over someone else's thread! My surgery is less then a month away. It is coming up so fast! I thought 11 months would take forever to get here and now it is right around the corner. I guess I am starting to experience the what if's... sigh. Probably the reason I am up at 3 am. I think I might feel a little better after my pre op appointment on the 19th of this month. Not knowing the surgical plan is killing me! While I know, any surgery Dr. Lenke does is big stuff I am wondering if it will be T10- L4/5 or if it will be T4-L4/5 or to the sacrum or a combo of the above. I am making an educated guess that it can't be definitive until he sees my thoracic MRI (have no idea why this was not done at the same time as my consult... but anyway it wasn't) bending Xrays and so forth. I sure would like a one and done surgery...I would hate to fuse just the bottom curve and then need to go back and fuse the top. I am also worried about not fusing to the sacrum because of arthritus issues and degenerative issues that will most likely develop over time. Thank goodness, 12 more days until I have the answer to those questions.
I lie awake at night writing farewell letters in my head to my children. My logical brain tells me I will be fine and come through this surgery but man am I causing myself all sorts of stress. Has anyone else done this? I have run out of things to do to keep busy.Just this week I have packed for my surgery, wrote a poem, read 2 novels, and ordered our Christmas cards. What are some ways that you have all releived anxieties before your surgery?
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