Two years ago on this date, was my day. A day I will never forget. A day that I waited 34 years for.
I am so thankful that surgical developments through the years advanced, of course there are many people to thank.
I think that the people I have to thank the most are all the old scoliosis patients that suffered through the years. They paid dearly through their suffering. I thank them for triggering people like Dr Moe, and all the pioneers who developed all the technology used today. We are very fortunate today. I couldn’t imagine having large curves and living life with scoliosis 100 plus years ago.
Yes my surgeries were tough. I had no choice, I ran out of time. I had seen many Doctors through the years and I think back to the old non-scoli orthos. Poor guys sometimes didn’t know what to say, they couldn’t help, and I had one shake his head speechless for a few minutes while staring at my x-ray. Those were the old days.
I never thought that I would have come out as well as I did. Being pain free was something that I pretty much wrote off and I must say that being pain free actually takes a while to get used to!
This forum has helped substantially. Even though I was just a reader and didn’t post years ago, it was a valuable asset. After all the years, I never knew or met another scoli. Hard to believe but true. Its been great reading all the posts, and chatting with everyone here. Of course I have to thank Linda and Joe for making it happen.
Oh yeah, and my surgeons Dr Menmuir, Dr Halki, Dr Rembetski,and their teams.
I wish everyone great success
Ed
I am so thankful that surgical developments through the years advanced, of course there are many people to thank.
I think that the people I have to thank the most are all the old scoliosis patients that suffered through the years. They paid dearly through their suffering. I thank them for triggering people like Dr Moe, and all the pioneers who developed all the technology used today. We are very fortunate today. I couldn’t imagine having large curves and living life with scoliosis 100 plus years ago.
Yes my surgeries were tough. I had no choice, I ran out of time. I had seen many Doctors through the years and I think back to the old non-scoli orthos. Poor guys sometimes didn’t know what to say, they couldn’t help, and I had one shake his head speechless for a few minutes while staring at my x-ray. Those were the old days.
I never thought that I would have come out as well as I did. Being pain free was something that I pretty much wrote off and I must say that being pain free actually takes a while to get used to!
This forum has helped substantially. Even though I was just a reader and didn’t post years ago, it was a valuable asset. After all the years, I never knew or met another scoli. Hard to believe but true. Its been great reading all the posts, and chatting with everyone here. Of course I have to thank Linda and Joe for making it happen.
Oh yeah, and my surgeons Dr Menmuir, Dr Halki, Dr Rembetski,and their teams.
I wish everyone great success
Ed
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