Yea thie trip to see Dr. Bridwell was awesome. That place is absolutely amazing. It just seems so efficient and state of the art. Even down to the parking. Anyway, we were in there for 4 hours and 40 minutes. As soon as I got in there to check in, they had me go across the hall to get some xrays. The machine that took them was something ive never seen before. I stood inside this thing, and it took the xray like all the way around me if that makes sense. I think they called it an EOS machine? They were the clearest xrays ive ever seen. So then Dr. Bridwell came in and really seemed to be studying them and said id be fused from T3 to Pelvis with the anchors. I also have some spurring around the T5- T6 and degeneration around L4- L5 i think. He also said I have ( something displasia)? I cant remember what he called it. Something about a sack that is enlarged around my spine that is expanding and willl make it a little harder to do the sugrery. maybe one of you can help me out with that one.
I asked about a thorocoplasty to fix my right rib hump. He said if thats what I wanted, he wouldnt do it all at once. He would fuse my thoracic curve and perform the thorocoplasty, then fuse the lumbar about 2 years later. But in the meantime, I would still have lower back pain. So im kinda split on what i want to do. Id really like to have the hump gone, but I really want to be out of pain too.
So in the mean time, he ordered a pulmonary function test, (which Ill do here in Ohio), then I have to go back to St. Louis to get a myleogram. Hopefully within the next month or so. i guess then we'll decide what we want to do as far as surgery goes. Im really leaning toward having the full fusion to be relieved of pain, and worry about the rib hump later.
Thats all for now, if I think of anything else, you know Ill put it up here.
And no, we actually beat the snow! It started snowing like right after we got home monday night. Now we have about 10 or 11 inches on the ground. NICE!
I asked about a thorocoplasty to fix my right rib hump. He said if thats what I wanted, he wouldnt do it all at once. He would fuse my thoracic curve and perform the thorocoplasty, then fuse the lumbar about 2 years later. But in the meantime, I would still have lower back pain. So im kinda split on what i want to do. Id really like to have the hump gone, but I really want to be out of pain too.
So in the mean time, he ordered a pulmonary function test, (which Ill do here in Ohio), then I have to go back to St. Louis to get a myleogram. Hopefully within the next month or so. i guess then we'll decide what we want to do as far as surgery goes. Im really leaning toward having the full fusion to be relieved of pain, and worry about the rib hump later.
Thats all for now, if I think of anything else, you know Ill put it up here.
And no, we actually beat the snow! It started snowing like right after we got home monday night. Now we have about 10 or 11 inches on the ground. NICE!
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