Some of us on this forum made pocket-size copies of our xrays to carry with us. Also, my doctor gave me a card to carry that explained the hardware in my back. I only set off the alarms twice, and I did a lot of traveling back in 2000-2002.
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10/24/00 posterior fusion T4-L4 at age 57
8/5/05 posterior surgery for spinal stenosis at L4-L5; laminectomy and fusion
5/14/07 posterior revision with fusion to sacrum
2/11/08 anterior discectomy L5-S1, and reinforcement of fusion with plate attached to L5-S1
3/9/2011 and 3/11/2011 revision surgery with Dr. Lenke, St. Louis - complete revision and fusion with instrumentation from T1 to sacrum, one lumbar osteotomy.