Hi Everyone,
I know you are all probably sick of hearing from me by now, but I have to ask for one more pre-op favor. Can you please remind me again why I'm having this surgery? I could really use some reassurance that I am doing the right thing. I must be one of those people who will be second-guessing this as they wheel me down the hall into the OR.
Anyway, got my central line placed this morning. The nurse who had me move from the bed that they carried me in on to the bed where they placed the line said: "Are you sure you need back surgery?" I told her I have scoliosis, and said she must see people like me all the time. She said: "Usually people who are about to have back surgery don't move that well." Hmpf. This is nothing new, of course. It's just difficult to see what would happen if I DIDN'T have surgery, when I am staring surgery in the face.
Ah well. I have an 80-something degree thoracolumbar curve with documented progression in recent years. That is why. But it sure doesn't get any easier as the surgery gets closer.
Thanks (again!) everyone,
Evelyn
I know you are all probably sick of hearing from me by now, but I have to ask for one more pre-op favor. Can you please remind me again why I'm having this surgery? I could really use some reassurance that I am doing the right thing. I must be one of those people who will be second-guessing this as they wheel me down the hall into the OR.
Anyway, got my central line placed this morning. The nurse who had me move from the bed that they carried me in on to the bed where they placed the line said: "Are you sure you need back surgery?" I told her I have scoliosis, and said she must see people like me all the time. She said: "Usually people who are about to have back surgery don't move that well." Hmpf. This is nothing new, of course. It's just difficult to see what would happen if I DIDN'T have surgery, when I am staring surgery in the face.
Ah well. I have an 80-something degree thoracolumbar curve with documented progression in recent years. That is why. But it sure doesn't get any easier as the surgery gets closer.
Thanks (again!) everyone,
Evelyn
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