December 7th, OHSU with Dr Hart.
I'm nervous.
First he will go in the side, remove a rib, deflate a lung, and do a bone graft on the vertebrae.
Hopefully the same day he will go in the back and add hardware to the hardware store I already have back there.
Sigh.
Not looking forward to it at all, but glad I'm going to get it over with soon. I'm confident I have a great doctor and although I've never been a patient at OHSU, I'm sure it's a good hospital.
Doctor says I probably won't have to wear any sort of brace after surgery. I give that a big thumbs up.
I'm trying to remember what my surgery was like 26 years ago when they originally put the rods in. I can't remember it at all. I only know that I was in the hospital for two weeks and then had to wear a Milwaukee brace for a year.
I'm nervous.
First he will go in the side, remove a rib, deflate a lung, and do a bone graft on the vertebrae.
Hopefully the same day he will go in the back and add hardware to the hardware store I already have back there.
Sigh.
Not looking forward to it at all, but glad I'm going to get it over with soon. I'm confident I have a great doctor and although I've never been a patient at OHSU, I'm sure it's a good hospital.
Doctor says I probably won't have to wear any sort of brace after surgery. I give that a big thumbs up.
I'm trying to remember what my surgery was like 26 years ago when they originally put the rods in. I can't remember it at all. I only know that I was in the hospital for two weeks and then had to wear a Milwaukee brace for a year.
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