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Random Thought of the Day
| August 19th, 2019 at 10:01:00 AM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 57 Posts: 5896 |
Those screws are titanium. It might be $20 worth of hardware. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a deterrent. |
| August 19th, 2019 at 10:02:11 AM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 57 Posts: 5896 |
Trip report, it was one night. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a deterrent. |
| August 19th, 2019 at 10:12:26 AM permalink | |
| Face Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 61 Posts: 3941 |
Retail, maybe ;)
Not gonna twist your arm, but you're my future. If you FEEL like posting about it, I'd be interested. Improvements, disabilities, (especially) limitations, things of that nature. Again, not gonna twist your arm. But I'm damn curious. Be bold and risk defeat, or be cautious and encourage it. |
| August 19th, 2019 at 10:31:49 AM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 57 Posts: 5896 |
I don't mind talking about it if there is anything you want to know. Amazingly, instant relief. From the time I woke up from surgery, there was zero pain. Prior to surgery I was Googling self amputation techniques for my right leg, I just couldn't stand the pain anymore. Currently my right leg is still a little numb, but I think it is just weakness from barely being used at all the last 6 months. I think I just need to work it back into shape. Being four days after surgery, I am back at work today. I don't anticipate any problems as most of my day involves sitting at a desk. I am walking almost normally although I have a back brace on so I am rather upright and stiff. Although I am still a little sore, feels like my lower back is slightly bruised, the only pain I have felt is when they pulled the catheter out of my weewee at 4am on Thursday. That stung for a good 30 seconds or so. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a deterrent. |
| August 19th, 2019 at 10:48:19 AM permalink | |
| petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | From L-3 up you look pretty good? Was that something congenital ? Whew Takes a long time for your spray to return to normal flow. lol The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
| August 19th, 2019 at 11:12:08 AM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 57 Posts: 5896 |
No, I don't think so. I have had disk issues in my lower back for at least 20 years but they have been getting progressively worse. About six years ago I started seeking treatment. My insurance company put me through so many hoops over the years and wouldn't approve an MRI and a visit to a specialist. I spents years in physical therapy being told my herniated disks would reabsorb. I was then referred to a pain management center that just gave me drugs until the problem went away. Next, they sent me to get nerve ablation which is basically electrifying nerves to numb them so I don't feel as much pain. Next was repeated steroid shots to numb the back. The problem was that all of these things they were doing were to treat the symptom not the actual issue. About 5 weeks ago my insurance company decided that I could get an MRI and let a specialist look at it. Within three minutes of seeing the specialist he looks at my MRI and immediately says you need surgery and you have three herniated disks. "When did you break your back?" I told him I didn't know what he was talking about and he said you currently have a broken back. "I just had a cancellation on August 14th if you want surgery". I immediately accepted and felt both exhilaration for getting this resolved, and anger for this having gone so many years when apparently it was so obvious. I didn't know this, but apparently you can go for over 20 years with a broken back and not even know it. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a deterrent. |
| August 19th, 2019 at 11:30:37 AM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 57 Posts: 5896 | Apparently this was the robot used to put the hardware in my spine.  The surgeon I used trains other surgeons on the use of this robot for spine surgery. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a deterrent. |
| August 19th, 2019 at 11:52:09 AM permalink | |
| rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 217 Posts: 22939 |
Treatment options probably did advance over 20 years, so what was a available today may not have been possible then. That robot arm means you probably had less chance of having a mishap occur — spine severed. "Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP. |
| August 19th, 2019 at 11:54:12 AM permalink | |
| petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | I currently have multiple compression fractures. Radiation made it worse. The spine looks pretty straight, with at least some spacing in between the verts, until about # L-4 iianm. Then it sways radically to your left? I guess I am lucky, actually I know I am, that I had work related damage. That and my wife worked in insurance for a few years, so she knows insurance speak. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
| August 19th, 2019 at 12:19:49 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 148 Posts: 25978 |
So when they tell you to go F yourself, she knows what that really means? I have to call my health insurance people 3 times to get a person who knows what they're doing. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |