Hello everybody...I've been reading but never posted. I am 53 years young and had my 1st surgery in 1964 in Rochester with Dr. Louis Goldstein, where Harrington rod was put in at T5 and up. That was perfectly OK until I herniated T4 after 3 pregnancies, lots of jazzercise, etc. I was nursing it along when I slipped on some ice and then was in a car accident. I had emergency fusion 7/2005 as T5 and everything down to tailbone had deteriorated. I still have lots of nerve damage in left foot. I recovered good and was doing OK but for the past 2 years I've been in more and more pain with more and more loss of leg and foot feeling and control. Been seeing Dr. Paul Rubery at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester and am scheduled to have surgery in October to remove most of the original rod, refuse the bottom with my bone chips, and possibly stabalize the whole shebang with rods from T5 area to my hip bones, which will also give me an arch.
I can't live on pain meds anymore and I am pretty restricted to lifestyle. Plus all I seem to want to do is lie down.
I have faith and trust in my doctor and the hospital and understand the surgery, but I am starting to get "nervous."
Anybody out there who I can talk to? ANybody out there have this kind of surgery? Any information and/or support would be great! Thanks!!
LimaMom
I can't live on pain meds anymore and I am pretty restricted to lifestyle. Plus all I seem to want to do is lie down.
I have faith and trust in my doctor and the hospital and understand the surgery, but I am starting to get "nervous."
Anybody out there who I can talk to? ANybody out there have this kind of surgery? Any information and/or support would be great! Thanks!!
LimaMom
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