My mother gave me the user name and password to post on here how she was doing after her surgery so I just wanted to let everyone know what happened because she really enjoyed reading this board. After her surgery in june she had many many complications starting with a collapsed lung the next day, though that was corrected quickly, in the next few days she developed an infection that the doctors felt was a kind of meningitis in her brain. This lingered for months even after a second surgery was preformed to drain the absesses around her spine that were caused by this infection. The infection led to hydrocephalous or water on the brain which caused her to lapse into a virtually vegetative state and the doctors aren't optimistic about her ever coming out of it. Right now she's at a kesler rehab center in new jersey getting intensive therapy but in 3 weeks there we haven't seen much progress. Obviously the last few months have been torture for our family and we can only hope that there will be some better news to report at some point.
I'm posting this because my mother walked in to her surgery on June 6th the picture of health, living on her own and though her back looked deformed she had ZERO pain whatsoever. I understand that she felt that this surgery would help her down the road later in life but she was clearly not filled in by the doctors of what could happen to someone who was 58 years old and with that large a curve in her spine. Right after the surgery was over, the doctor told me "this was a very very hard surgery and i knew that going in" well i think the proper risk/reward results of this surgery were not taken into consideration before by either my mother or the doctor and as a result she's been robbed of god knows how many good years with her family.
Keep this in mind before you go in for a surgery of this extent.
I'm posting this because my mother walked in to her surgery on June 6th the picture of health, living on her own and though her back looked deformed she had ZERO pain whatsoever. I understand that she felt that this surgery would help her down the road later in life but she was clearly not filled in by the doctors of what could happen to someone who was 58 years old and with that large a curve in her spine. Right after the surgery was over, the doctor told me "this was a very very hard surgery and i knew that going in" well i think the proper risk/reward results of this surgery were not taken into consideration before by either my mother or the doctor and as a result she's been robbed of god knows how many good years with her family.
Keep this in mind before you go in for a surgery of this extent.
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