Chris
I know how you feel I am the main support of my family. I was fused from T4 to L4; I was 44 yr old when I had the surgery. I went back to work full time at 5 months post op. I was up at 5:00 am to get ready for work and commute to New York and back and home by 5:30-6:00 pm. ( an hour commute )and had a staph infection on my spine and on the hardware, (and still have it). I would have returned to work at 4 months maybe even sooner but that was when the doctor discovered my infection and the pain was very bad so I couldn’t do much of anything. Returning to work I was very weak for the first two weeks and thought I am not going to make it; I was so tired, probably because I was still on pain meds and an antibiotic for the infection. Also so for a month I had an IV line in my arm every night I had to give may IV antibiotic for the staph infection. Traveling to work and working all day with the tubing coming out my arm (trying to cover it up so people would stop asking what that thing was). My surgery will be 1 yr on Feb 7 and I feel good and workout 5 days week and have been for about 2 months. I will have to go back in for surgery to remove the rods because that is the only way to get rid of this terrible staph infection (that I got the hospital – NYU Medical Center). If I could do it, anyone without major complications, can do it. Good Luck.
Sue
I know how you feel I am the main support of my family. I was fused from T4 to L4; I was 44 yr old when I had the surgery. I went back to work full time at 5 months post op. I was up at 5:00 am to get ready for work and commute to New York and back and home by 5:30-6:00 pm. ( an hour commute )and had a staph infection on my spine and on the hardware, (and still have it). I would have returned to work at 4 months maybe even sooner but that was when the doctor discovered my infection and the pain was very bad so I couldn’t do much of anything. Returning to work I was very weak for the first two weeks and thought I am not going to make it; I was so tired, probably because I was still on pain meds and an antibiotic for the infection. Also so for a month I had an IV line in my arm every night I had to give may IV antibiotic for the staph infection. Traveling to work and working all day with the tubing coming out my arm (trying to cover it up so people would stop asking what that thing was). My surgery will be 1 yr on Feb 7 and I feel good and workout 5 days week and have been for about 2 months. I will have to go back in for surgery to remove the rods because that is the only way to get rid of this terrible staph infection (that I got the hospital – NYU Medical Center). If I could do it, anyone without major complications, can do it. Good Luck.
Sue
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