Kinda like the “2 day stay” surgery for a stainless steel spinal support that had my dad in the hospital for -3 weeks- and nearly paralyzed him?
Yeah.
I’m really looking forward to *that*.
[moral of story: NEVER listen to your uber-liberal, pETA loving, vegan retired teacher sister who recommended her own HMO neuro-quack]
They “redid” the SS rod 2 *more* times before they finally got it half-assed right to where SCREWS weren’t stabbing his spinal cord.
The day after the first surgery, he told me he couldn’t feel his leg yet it was “shocking him” and “numb”.
I told him to tell the doctors they’d pinched *other* nerves but they wouldn’t listen and it took 2 more tries to figure out what a little nobody like me immediately saw clear as day.
He still hurts a lot but not as bad as before.
My aunt got lucky...she’s fine.
Rods in the spine... This is the same surgery that’s been recommended for me.
The spinal doctor told me that I’d probably still be in pain, but that it would just be different after the surgery. My pain-management dr said that everyone who gets this surgery ends up at his place.
Honestly, I’m just too chicken to do it. Yes, I’m in pain, but I know and understand this pain. I can work around it. I can live with it.
One of my girls has scoliosis and had surgery at 17 to straighten the column with a pair of steel rods. Her condition was causing her no pain and I suggested she wait on surgery and see if the condition would really worsen as the doctor predicted. But the surgeon had her convinced she was going to turn into some kind of freak if she didn't have the surgery done right away.
Her recovery time in the hospital was only about a day longer than promised, but in the aftermath she is bothered by chronic pain, and she won't exercise and has become quite overweight.
I continue to believe she should have waited on surgery until it became (if ever) absolutely necessary.