Hi All,
Well, the countdown begins...five weeks from this coming Tuesday, on Dec 11, I have surgery with Dr. Bridwell. For some reason, it just hasn't felt real until now that it is getting so close. I am 61 so I have paid special attention over the past many months to the threads from some of the older scolis here on the forum.....backissues and loves to skate....your success stories have so encouraged me. Titaniumed, I know you aren't in your 60's but you had some of the same issues I am dealing with, and to hear about all your travels and activities gives me so much hope.....still don't know how you managed to get INTO that tub to soak.....ha!!! Susancook....you sound so much like me pondering the surgery decision but getting relief from injections......I have told my husband more times than not that I would never have surgery and here I am five weeks away. I was fused in 1964 when I was 13 from T4-L2. The surgical plan now is L2-sacrum and hooking onto the existing fusion. Does anyone know what exactly that entails, the hooking on? I still have questions when I see Dr. Bridwell the day before surgery. I have neural foraminal stenosis, DDD and a 43 degree rotational curve in the lumbar and also a synovial cyst on L4-L5 which is pressing on a nerve and might be a little risky removing because sometimes it is attached to the dura. Did any of you have a synovial cyst? Ok, just wanted to sign in and tell all of you that the time you take to support and encourage each of us is a Godsend. I will be asking for prayer the closer I get to my surgery. I have many friends who are so supportive but no one really knows the emotional and physical turmoil we deal with. I have been praying for Boomergal and I am praying and pulling for TwinmomTN who has a major complication with nerve pain. Good luck to you on Nov 8th. Gardenia, we will be in St Louis around the same time. I don't know if my husband and I will be back home by Christmas but we will be returning home to a very unfestive home. I sorta regret not waiting until after Christmas, but I was so anxious to get it over with. I have been waking up every night the past week in the wee hours of the morning and my mind just starts racing with thoughts of the pain coming out of surgery. My faith is the only thing right now sustaining me. Ok, will close...just had to get some things off my mind which helps with the coping. I know there are others out there that didnt come to mind as I was writing this but I pray for all of you as you go into surgery. I am on facebook....Pat Yacisin
Blessings and Hugs,
Patty
Well, the countdown begins...five weeks from this coming Tuesday, on Dec 11, I have surgery with Dr. Bridwell. For some reason, it just hasn't felt real until now that it is getting so close. I am 61 so I have paid special attention over the past many months to the threads from some of the older scolis here on the forum.....backissues and loves to skate....your success stories have so encouraged me. Titaniumed, I know you aren't in your 60's but you had some of the same issues I am dealing with, and to hear about all your travels and activities gives me so much hope.....still don't know how you managed to get INTO that tub to soak.....ha!!! Susancook....you sound so much like me pondering the surgery decision but getting relief from injections......I have told my husband more times than not that I would never have surgery and here I am five weeks away. I was fused in 1964 when I was 13 from T4-L2. The surgical plan now is L2-sacrum and hooking onto the existing fusion. Does anyone know what exactly that entails, the hooking on? I still have questions when I see Dr. Bridwell the day before surgery. I have neural foraminal stenosis, DDD and a 43 degree rotational curve in the lumbar and also a synovial cyst on L4-L5 which is pressing on a nerve and might be a little risky removing because sometimes it is attached to the dura. Did any of you have a synovial cyst? Ok, just wanted to sign in and tell all of you that the time you take to support and encourage each of us is a Godsend. I will be asking for prayer the closer I get to my surgery. I have many friends who are so supportive but no one really knows the emotional and physical turmoil we deal with. I have been praying for Boomergal and I am praying and pulling for TwinmomTN who has a major complication with nerve pain. Good luck to you on Nov 8th. Gardenia, we will be in St Louis around the same time. I don't know if my husband and I will be back home by Christmas but we will be returning home to a very unfestive home. I sorta regret not waiting until after Christmas, but I was so anxious to get it over with. I have been waking up every night the past week in the wee hours of the morning and my mind just starts racing with thoughts of the pain coming out of surgery. My faith is the only thing right now sustaining me. Ok, will close...just had to get some things off my mind which helps with the coping. I know there are others out there that didnt come to mind as I was writing this but I pray for all of you as you go into surgery. I am on facebook....Pat Yacisin
Blessings and Hugs,
Patty
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