I'm sure you're right about the length of fusion and recovery. For instance, Dr. Lenke said if this were a thoracic only fusion, she wouldn't need to pre-donate blood but with a long fusion the chances of receiving blood were at aobut 75% so an autologous donation was imperative for us, we didn't want her receiving shelf blood. I'm sure the length of surgery would be several hours less too. The other issue is bending, with a thoracic only fusion, there would be little loss of mobility. My daughter needed help getting out of bed and the sofa for the first 3 weeks after surgery. If your daughter doesn't have such an extensive fusion, she may very well recuperate much quicker than what we've experienced.
My daughter didn't have any serious complications, she did have extreme pain at the drain site (could have been nerve pain from surgery, it just so happened it was at the drain site) but other than that, nothing unusual. She was also still anemic when we brought her home despite receiving her unit of blood, she was very weak for several weeks. It didn't help that she had a very heavy period following surgery that lasted about a week.
Everything that I've read and heard, the limbs are the last thing to grow.
My daughter didn't have any serious complications, she did have extreme pain at the drain site (could have been nerve pain from surgery, it just so happened it was at the drain site) but other than that, nothing unusual. She was also still anemic when we brought her home despite receiving her unit of blood, she was very weak for several weeks. It didn't help that she had a very heavy period following surgery that lasted about a week.
Everything that I've read and heard, the limbs are the last thing to grow.
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