I am heading out the door for a NYE party, but I didn't want to leave this year behind without saying. . .THANK YOU, my forum friends, from the bottom of my heart for making my surgery this year doable.
I'm 48 years old, and had an 86* thoracic curve (and a smaller, yet significant, lumbar curve). One day, in June, as I was getting my mail, "I'm having my back fixed" popped into my brain, seemingly out of nowhere. Before I went back into the house, I called my husband (he was at work) on my cell, and told him what I wanted to do. In the next week or two, I was sitting in Dr. Tribus' office. Before I left that first appt, we scheduled my surgery. I was fused on 8/25 from T-3 to L-3, with some rib segments removed. There was a post-op lung complication, which kind of ate up Sept, but I'm pretty much recovered from that now.
Every New Year's Eve, for the last 5 years or so, I have sat at my friends' annual party and thought "this time next year, I'll be 20 lbs thinner! I'll do it!". . .and every "next year" I felt bad that I hadn't lost the weight. Tonight, thanks to my post-surg "pain diet", I am 30 lbs thinner. Any woman who has struggled w/taking off unwanted weight can understand how happy this makes me.
Last NYE, I never dreamed that I'd be where I am (straighter, hardly any rib hump, and thin to boot!) THIS Dec 31. I am soooo blessed. And, I couldn't have faced the surgery and those difficult early post-op weeks nearly as well if it hadn't been for the info and for the encouragement and support that I got right here. This place is very special to me.
A happy, healthy, blessed 2010 to all!!
I'm 48 years old, and had an 86* thoracic curve (and a smaller, yet significant, lumbar curve). One day, in June, as I was getting my mail, "I'm having my back fixed" popped into my brain, seemingly out of nowhere. Before I went back into the house, I called my husband (he was at work) on my cell, and told him what I wanted to do. In the next week or two, I was sitting in Dr. Tribus' office. Before I left that first appt, we scheduled my surgery. I was fused on 8/25 from T-3 to L-3, with some rib segments removed. There was a post-op lung complication, which kind of ate up Sept, but I'm pretty much recovered from that now.
Every New Year's Eve, for the last 5 years or so, I have sat at my friends' annual party and thought "this time next year, I'll be 20 lbs thinner! I'll do it!". . .and every "next year" I felt bad that I hadn't lost the weight. Tonight, thanks to my post-surg "pain diet", I am 30 lbs thinner. Any woman who has struggled w/taking off unwanted weight can understand how happy this makes me.
Last NYE, I never dreamed that I'd be where I am (straighter, hardly any rib hump, and thin to boot!) THIS Dec 31. I am soooo blessed. And, I couldn't have faced the surgery and those difficult early post-op weeks nearly as well if it hadn't been for the info and for the encouragement and support that I got right here. This place is very special to me.
A happy, healthy, blessed 2010 to all!!
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