Ed, your body looked surprisingly straight for how bad your back is in that x-ray.
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Ed, you're right they are remarkably even - I hadn't thought to look! And thanks for the photo.
Quick question for you all... I've been offered a headline slot at a pretty nice venue in London which would mean 8 gigs a week (6 days a week with 2 matinee performances) for almost a month on top of rehearsal time. The downside is that it's only 3 months after my operation. Do you think this is doable? They will be fairly active performances and I'm worried I might damage something or just not have the energy to pull it off. On the other hand, it would be a huge shame to turn it down.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
BBilly
32 year old male from UK
Fused at 25yrs
62 degree thoratic curve
45 degree lumbar curve
Fused T3-L1 on 3rd Jan 2012
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Oh hey I think your lumbar is not structural. I think the criteria is to bend out some percentage of it which I think you have. Linda might know. I am not a surgeon but I am betting they tell you it is a single T curve and that is the area that will be fused.
Good luck.Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis
No island of sanity.
Question: What do you call alternative medicine that works?
Answer: Medicine
"We are all African."
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Bill
Its hard to say if you are going to feel good enough to pull the gig off. Of course there is a big difference in exactly what this entails. Are you going to be singing Queen’s “Bohemian rhapsody” through a 200,000 watt pa system? Its been 20 years today since Freddie passed. RIP
Sitting is hard after surgery.....at your age, (playing cello?) you might be able to pull this off and make it happen.
Its Thanksgiving today.....a day we give thanks and eat massive amounts of turkey. I hope I survive. (smiley face)
Ed49 yr old male, now 63, the new 64...
Pre surgery curves T70,L70
ALIF/PSA T2-Pelvis 01/29/08, 01/31/08 7" pelvic anchors BMP
Dr Brett Menmuir St Marys Hospital Reno,Nevada
Bending and twisting pics after full fusion
http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/showt...on.&highlight=
My x-rays
http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/attac...2&d=1228779214
http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/attac...3&d=1228779258
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Ed
I's a run with a pretty energetic vocal group I'm in. We're working our way up to the the level of the great Freddie Mercury and to the stadium tours but I have a feeling it'll be a while until that happens
Cue shameless self-promotion... here is a video of us backstage before a gig performing one of our numbers. The shows in March with have a lot more movement than this and will each be about an hour and a half in length.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnl1W...layer_embedded
Enjoy!
B
PS Spot the scoli!Last edited by BendyBill; 11-26-2011, 10:58 AM.Billy
32 year old male from UK
Fused at 25yrs
62 degree thoratic curve
45 degree lumbar curve
Fused T3-L1 on 3rd Jan 2012
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That was FABULOUS! I would gladly pay to see a performance! You guys are spectacular!
It is very hard to say how any recovery will go. Although you are an adult, you are young and I think your recovery will be more like a teenager's recovery in terms of speed of healing. Both of my daughters were pretty close to normal at 3 months. It is not crazy to suggest you could do that if you walked miles and miles and miles in your recovery.
Good luck and thank you very much for posting that! What a pleasure to watch!!!
ETA: My daughters had a similar curve to yours... 58* and 57* thoracic curves.Last edited by Pooka1; 11-26-2011, 01:20 PM.Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis
No island of sanity.
Question: What do you call alternative medicine that works?
Answer: Medicine
"We are all African."
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Originally posted by BendyBill View Post
PS Spot the scoli!
Warmly,
Doreen44 years old at time of surgery, Atlanta GA
Pre-Surgery Thorasic: 70 degrees, Pre-Surgery Lumbar: 68 degrees, lost 4 inches of height in 2011
Post-Surgery curves ~10 degrees, regained 4 inches of height
Posterior T3-sacrum & TLIF surgeries on Nov 28, 2011 with Dr. Lenke, St. Louis
2 rods, 33 screws, 2 cages, 2 connectors, living a new life I never dreamed of!
http://thebionicachronicles.blogspot.com/
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Well that got put on my fb in a hurry; very entertaining! And no, I can't spot the scoli.Son 14 y/o diagnosed January 20th. 2011 with 110* Curve
Halo Traction & 1st. surgery on March 22nd. 2011
Spinal Fusion on April 19th. 2011
Dr. Krajbich @ Shriners Childrens Hospital, Portland Oregon
http://tinyurl.com/Elias-Before
http://tinyurl.com/Elias-After
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I'm the me in the red hoodie. Does anyone else find the signs of their own scoliosis massively obvious when others can't see them?
BBilly
32 year old male from UK
Fused at 25yrs
62 degree thoratic curve
45 degree lumbar curve
Fused T3-L1 on 3rd Jan 2012
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I watched it again and still can't spot the scoliosis... take yer shirt off so we can have a closer look, lol.
Okay, you have an awesome voice and am assuming you're the lead singer? If so, maybe you can modify your movements after surgery and concentrate on the singing if it it still too painful for you move around so much. I don't really know, just thinking out loud here as I'd hate for you to give up such a great gig.Son 14 y/o diagnosed January 20th. 2011 with 110* Curve
Halo Traction & 1st. surgery on March 22nd. 2011
Spinal Fusion on April 19th. 2011
Dr. Krajbich @ Shriners Childrens Hospital, Portland Oregon
http://tinyurl.com/Elias-Before
http://tinyurl.com/Elias-After
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Oh hey you might want to make damn sure you aren't getting an anterior fusion. There is at least one testimonial on here about how that compromised a person's singing ability. Ask the surgeon if it is to be entirely posterior.Sharon, mother of identical twin girls with scoliosis
No island of sanity.
Question: What do you call alternative medicine that works?
Answer: Medicine
"We are all African."
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Loved it Bill, thanks for posting! No, I did not pick the scoli.
I think your recovery will go well, considering your age. Get fit as possible before surgery, I'm sure that will help. Walk miles, as Sharon says, post surgery, and speak to your surgeon about it. If he thinks it might be too much (which I doubt,) is it possible to limit some of the physical antics just a little, especially twisting?Surgery March 3, 2009 at almost 58, now 63.
Dr. Askin, Brisbane, Australia
T4-Pelvis, Posterior only
Osteotomies and Laminectomies
Was 68 degrees, now 22 and pain free
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That was fantastic! And I did spot you in the red hoodie. Your shoulders give it away about half way through while you are singing.
It’s a good thing your not the full time drummer! If the audience demanded a drum solo, that could be a problem.....(smiley face)
I think your going to be able to pull this off.....your going to have to! the show must go on!
The first few weeks will hurt, but you will come around in time.
Ed49 yr old male, now 63, the new 64...
Pre surgery curves T70,L70
ALIF/PSA T2-Pelvis 01/29/08, 01/31/08 7" pelvic anchors BMP
Dr Brett Menmuir St Marys Hospital Reno,Nevada
Bending and twisting pics after full fusion
http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/showt...on.&highlight=
My x-rays
http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/attac...2&d=1228779214
http://www.scoliosis.org/forum/attac...3&d=1228779258
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Bill, you are AWESOME! Love the performance, love the group...it's so interesting to find out what some of us are about, beyond our scoliosis. I'm not surprised you have a great gig offered. I did not pick out your "bendy" back, either. I'll watch again now that I know which is you. I also was betting on the blue t-shirt, for the same reason that the tall skinnies go with scoliosis so often.Stephanie, age 56
Diagnosed age 8
Milwaukee brace 9 years, no further treatment, symptom free and clueless until my 40s that curves could progress.
Thoracolumbar curve 39 degrees at age 17
Now somewhere around 58 degrees thoracic, 70 degrees thoracolumbar
Surgeon Dr. Michael S. O'Brien, Baylor's Southwest Scoliosis Center, Dallas TX
Bilateral laminectomies at L3 to L4, L4 to L5 and L5 to S1 on April 4, 2012
Foramenotomies L3 through S1 in August 2014
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