Thanks Sweetness
Far from rambling, I really do appreciate your thoughtful response, and what you said helped. I think my husband was feeling very discouraged seeing so many people talk about 3 weeks as being the "magic number" when everything turned around, and it hasn't for him. He also has great trouble sleeping, so we can really relate to your problem. This has been an issue for so long that our kids started to describe him as "nocturnal". I sure hope you are sleeping better now, and doing fine after all this time.
It really helps to have your marker of 4-5 months - that is pretty much what our primary care doctor said. That can be depressing, because one hopes that there'll sort of be a linear progression, but I guess it must take about four months for the fusion and the muscle-healing to reach a certain point before one starts to really feel better. I just think it's truly amazing that there is so little interest, education and follow-up on the part of most of the surgeons once a patient leaves the hospital. My dad was an orthopaedic surgeon and he followed up and cared for his patients for months post-surgery. But that was a different time, and a different country. Medicine just isn't practiced like that anymore, or at least not in the U.S. I'm still most worried about the nutrition but it does help to know that some of you survived similar problems!
Far from rambling, I really do appreciate your thoughtful response, and what you said helped. I think my husband was feeling very discouraged seeing so many people talk about 3 weeks as being the "magic number" when everything turned around, and it hasn't for him. He also has great trouble sleeping, so we can really relate to your problem. This has been an issue for so long that our kids started to describe him as "nocturnal". I sure hope you are sleeping better now, and doing fine after all this time.
It really helps to have your marker of 4-5 months - that is pretty much what our primary care doctor said. That can be depressing, because one hopes that there'll sort of be a linear progression, but I guess it must take about four months for the fusion and the muscle-healing to reach a certain point before one starts to really feel better. I just think it's truly amazing that there is so little interest, education and follow-up on the part of most of the surgeons once a patient leaves the hospital. My dad was an orthopaedic surgeon and he followed up and cared for his patients for months post-surgery. But that was a different time, and a different country. Medicine just isn't practiced like that anymore, or at least not in the U.S. I'm still most worried about the nutrition but it does help to know that some of you survived similar problems!
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