Peg
So sorry about the crash, I hope you are recovering from that....I’ve been through those parts, the Northern Nevada, Southern Oregon area is one of the few spots in the US where you can drive for a very long time and not see anyone else.....desolation for sure.
As far as your scoliosis surgery is concerned, you will need an “adult scoliosis specialist”. I wouldn’t pick someone unless they were active and only doing scoliosis surgery. If someone trains and is completely focused on the spine, this person wouldn’t do shoulders or knees. The spine is complex enough to keep a scoliosis surgeon extremely busy for an infinite amount of time.....I don’t know how to stress how important this is.
Decision making is difficult. There are so many parameters involved that its hard for the layman (us) to make a decision......The best advice I can give is to keep reading and posting, ask any questions at all. Read David Wolpert’s book, and take your time. This will be the most important decision you will ever make, you want to have a good knowledge of the topic matter, and also know about the “C” word. Complications. I know, it grim, but you need to know because its serious surgery. Surgeons usually pop this on us right before we go in, because they have to. My urologist popped the old, “you know what a stent is” on a laser lithotripsy procedure I had years ago. There is always some sort of information that gets your full attention. That got my attention. (smiley face) Knowledge is a good thing. Knowledge combined with faith is better.
Julia
I didn’t realize how classic that croc photo is till Sharon mentioned it, but it is hilarious because you can see that stress in my face. I’m thinking that he couldn’t possibly chance attacking his food supply......at least for the single second I turned my head and yelled “snap the photo”. Thoughts of the massive migration of the
wildebeest in the Serengeti crossing the Mara river did cross my mind. Discovery used to run those croc attack programs years ago quite often.....maybe to keep the ratings up? Combined with British narration, it has that seriousness that really grabs your attention. Ohhh...man!
Croc marketing.
Ed
So sorry about the crash, I hope you are recovering from that....I’ve been through those parts, the Northern Nevada, Southern Oregon area is one of the few spots in the US where you can drive for a very long time and not see anyone else.....desolation for sure.
As far as your scoliosis surgery is concerned, you will need an “adult scoliosis specialist”. I wouldn’t pick someone unless they were active and only doing scoliosis surgery. If someone trains and is completely focused on the spine, this person wouldn’t do shoulders or knees. The spine is complex enough to keep a scoliosis surgeon extremely busy for an infinite amount of time.....I don’t know how to stress how important this is.
Decision making is difficult. There are so many parameters involved that its hard for the layman (us) to make a decision......The best advice I can give is to keep reading and posting, ask any questions at all. Read David Wolpert’s book, and take your time. This will be the most important decision you will ever make, you want to have a good knowledge of the topic matter, and also know about the “C” word. Complications. I know, it grim, but you need to know because its serious surgery. Surgeons usually pop this on us right before we go in, because they have to. My urologist popped the old, “you know what a stent is” on a laser lithotripsy procedure I had years ago. There is always some sort of information that gets your full attention. That got my attention. (smiley face) Knowledge is a good thing. Knowledge combined with faith is better.
Julia
I didn’t realize how classic that croc photo is till Sharon mentioned it, but it is hilarious because you can see that stress in my face. I’m thinking that he couldn’t possibly chance attacking his food supply......at least for the single second I turned my head and yelled “snap the photo”. Thoughts of the massive migration of the
wildebeest in the Serengeti crossing the Mara river did cross my mind. Discovery used to run those croc attack programs years ago quite often.....maybe to keep the ratings up? Combined with British narration, it has that seriousness that really grabs your attention. Ohhh...man!
Croc marketing.
Ed
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