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Yes I can only imagine how tired you must be. Are you still have my crutches for support? I can guess that would be rough with thoracic pain. I...

Jackie, thanks for your support. I am really tired of being in pain. Susan

He figured that he was sharing the stress. Susan

Ed, I do not use oxygen. I was diagnosed with P.Acnes bacterial infection in 2015 and take Keflex 500 bid. I have had 4 episodes of 10 pain in my...

They incise the disc also along with the longitudinal ligament..... And the disc heals after surgery..... Discs do heal..... ...

I once played Winthrop in the Music Man in the 9th grade.... "Gary Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary Indiana, that's the place I rather be!" Also, had to...

My final fusion is expected to be my final surgery as long as nothing goes wrong and I don't get another infection or something like that. My sister...

Well today is 6 months from this last surgery. I am walking better but can still loose my balance. But it is better. The right hand is still not...

Is your sister still keeping up the ballet? Do you sing as well as dance in your musical theater?

You've spent about 5 years recovering from surgeries, then. You must be good at enduring recovery periods by now. Is this expected to be the last...

Five rods?! that's a lot of hardware!

Yes, the other recovery times were usually about two months and the longest was four from when I broke my rod this one is going to be about six...

Susan I hope it helps. I have not found thoracic screw removal to help much with pain. It is also a very short surgery if only the screw is removed....

Susan, Do you use oxygen? I have not heard of Po2 mentioned here, but as an adult diver, many dive companies require Nitrox certifications to dive....

They couldn't read signs for the deaf, was that their excuse? I thought frantic hand-waving was a universal language.

I am scheduled for May 20th in Seattle. Dr. Hart said that I need to either spend the night at Swedish Hospital or in a nearby hotel. Mark and I...

Is this going to be a longer recovery than that of your previous surgeries? You must have spent a long time, total, recovering from 30 surgeries.

No, I don't know what it's at right now but it's still visible and I notice it a lot in ballet and when I look in the mirror.

Do you still have a 70 degree curve or was that before all the surgeries?

I agree with Tina - once you find a doctor and meet with him/her, they will make you feel like "there's a plan" and you won't feel so lost and...

I won't be able to lift thing over ten pounds for possibly the whole six months of recovery I'm not sure, but after a while I will be able to do bar...

It is fantastic that you are a dancer, and I hope you can return to dance as quickly as possible. Lifts might need to be postponed for awhile....

Good to hear from you Susan. If it is what the Dr thinks it should be quick. Southbound surgery you never know. They were going to reconnect my rods...

I just hadn't heard that lucency was a reason to remove or replace implants, unless there was pain or loss of correction. As I said, however, it's...

My sister had been doing ballet for a bit and the studio needed more boy dancers and I was interested so I joined. Later I joined musical theatre and...

How did you get into ballet? I always found classical and modern dance fascinating when I would see it on TV as a kid. Not that I ever wanted to be a...

The lucency appeared at about 6 months after the 2015 surgery. First we "watched" it for a while, then I had an Inter-Stim replacement and reverse...

Hi there Linda. Which part is probably true? If it is that the screw with lucency gradually wears down the area around that the screw, it makes...

So did you have your surgery? How did it go?