I just went through another fusion surgery. My thoracic was first fused in Feb. 2011. Apparently it never fused. I had part of the hardware removed last January, due to a non healing wound.I
After that, in about 7 weeks the pain in one area of the spine was insane. We started looking at why.
When the doctor did a myelogram he found a nonunion, during the surgery in October, he found that the entire thoracic had not healed. So he removed the hardware and refused with my bone, cadaver bone and BMP. Without the fusion, I was going into a very fast moving kyphosis.
T10-pelvis fusion 12/08
C5,6,7 fusion 9/10
T2--T10 fusion 2/11
C 4-5 fusion 11/14
Right scapulectomy 6/15
Right pectoralis major muscle transfer to scapula
To replace the action of Serratus Anterior muscle 3/16
Broken neck 9/28/2018
Emergency surgery posterior fusion C4- T3
Repeated 11/2018 because rods pulled apart added T2 fusion
Removal of partial right thoracic hardware 1/2020
Removal and replacement of C4-T10 hardware with C7 and T 1
Osteotomy