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Hi. It's Lisa's husband again with a progress report...
Lisa made great progress today just one day after surgery. Under her own power, she got out of bed and with the use of a walker, walked about 80 feet and returned to her room. She did this three times throughout the day. After her second walk of the day, the Nurse removed the Morphine pump and started her on longer acting pain med. By 3:00 pm, she was removed from all the tubes and was able to go to the bathroom on her own. This was a great relief to her. She also feels that her legs free stronger then before the surgery. On Lisa’s third walk, she doubled the distance of her first walk. Her spirits are very good and feels she made good progress today. It was a good day.
There is one other piece of interesting information. Dr. Yoo spoke to her early this morning that vertebrae L4 was very unstable. The cartilages that support L4 were no longer able to support it allowing a great deal of movement and was likely the cause of most of the pain she was experiencing. So this is the reason why Dr. Yoo de-rotated and stabilized this area. He also said that if Lisa waited to have the surgery later, the damage would have increased to the point where it could not be repaired. This was very comforting for us to hear since we struggled so much to decide when to have this procedure done, or even have it done at all.
Thank you for all your wonderful words of encouragement today. I read every email response to Lisa which brought her great joy.
Thanks,
Lisa’s Hubby – Mike
Lisa made great progress today just one day after surgery. Under her own power, she got out of bed and with the use of a walker, walked about 80 feet and returned to her room. She did this three times throughout the day. After her second walk of the day, the Nurse removed the Morphine pump and started her on longer acting pain med. By 3:00 pm, she was removed from all the tubes and was able to go to the bathroom on her own. This was a great relief to her. She also feels that her legs free stronger then before the surgery. On Lisa’s third walk, she doubled the distance of her first walk. Her spirits are very good and feels she made good progress today. It was a good day.
There is one other piece of interesting information. Dr. Yoo spoke to her early this morning that vertebrae L4 was very unstable. The cartilages that support L4 were no longer able to support it allowing a great deal of movement and was likely the cause of most of the pain she was experiencing. So this is the reason why Dr. Yoo de-rotated and stabilized this area. He also said that if Lisa waited to have the surgery later, the damage would have increased to the point where it could not be repaired. This was very comforting for us to hear since we struggled so much to decide when to have this procedure done, or even have it done at all.
Thank you for all your wonderful words of encouragement today. I read every email response to Lisa which brought her great joy.
Thanks,
Lisa’s Hubby – Mike
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