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    With all the odds and ends needed to get done it dawned on me the other morning that with a 4 year old in the house and all the pain meds around I better have a safe place for them. I went and bought a cash box. I figure its light weight and I will be able to keep it in easy access but she won't be able to get at anything.
    2 60* curves, DDD, left trunk shift, some rotation, rib and lumbar humps, annular tear at L5-S1
    surgery 5/08 planning fusion T3 or T4 to sacrum with iliac fixation
    Dr. Anderson at Rothman Institute
    5/16/08 ALIF L1-L5
    5/23/08 fused T2-sacrum w/fixation and I'm all Titanium
    6/4/08 open all back up to clean out for Staph infection
    (left open with just clear dressing)
    6/6/08 recleaned and closed
    3/30/2012 revision planned, broken rod and removal of iliac bolts

  • #2
    Sounds like a good plan! Do you have plenty of help for when you come home??? Take care!
    71 and plugging along... but having some problems
    2007 52° w/ severe lumbar stenosis & L2L3 lateral listhesis (side shift)
    5/4/07 posterior fusion T2-L4 w/ laminectomies and osteotomies @L2L3, L3L4
    Dr. Kim Hammerberg, Rush Univ. Medical Center in Chicago

    Corrected to 15°
    CMT (type 2) DX in 2014, progressing
    10/2018 x-rays - spondylolisthesis at L4/L5 - Dr. DeWald is monitoring

    Click to view my pics: pics of scoli x-rays digital x-rays, and pics of me

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    • #3
      Sharshe,

      I'm so glad this isn't an issue with me. I'd lose the key or worse, swallow it with my meds, or just not be able to open the damn thing if it's a latch type. I can just see me calling for help to open my med box.

      It's just me and the doggie (who'll be babysat next door for a while), and I say a small prayer of gratitude every day he lacks opposable thumbs. He'd be dangerous! ;-)

      Regards,
      Pam
      Fusion is NOT the end of the world.
      AIDS Walk Houston 2008 5K @ 33 days post op!


      41, dx'd JIS & Boston braced @ 10
      Pre-op ±53°, Post-op < 20°
      Fused 2/5/08, T4-L1 ... Darrell S. Hanson, Houston


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      • #4
        I have family coming from Denver AND Arizona to help, so I won't have to worry about picking Skye up from school or anything of that sort for at least a few weeks then other grandmom will pick her up drop her here.
        I figure I'll stick the key on one of those stretchy bracelets. I did think of how to open it, I got the kind with a handle on top, the other kind was bad enough trying to open at the store.
        2 60* curves, DDD, left trunk shift, some rotation, rib and lumbar humps, annular tear at L5-S1
        surgery 5/08 planning fusion T3 or T4 to sacrum with iliac fixation
        Dr. Anderson at Rothman Institute
        5/16/08 ALIF L1-L5
        5/23/08 fused T2-sacrum w/fixation and I'm all Titanium
        6/4/08 open all back up to clean out for Staph infection
        (left open with just clear dressing)
        6/6/08 recleaned and closed
        3/30/2012 revision planned, broken rod and removal of iliac bolts

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        • #5
          I never thought about that! That is a great idea, Sharshe!

          Pam- there are times the men I live with lack opposable thumbs....(no offense, guys...)
          Lisa age 47
          T curve 69 degrees
          L curve 40 degrees more or less - compensatory
          fused to from T-3 to sacrum
          anterior and posterior surgeries completed June 1, 2007
          pushing hard in recovery !!

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