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Post by whitefang on Aug 2, 2020 10:07:28 GMT -5
Thanks all.
Whitefang
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2020 18:20:42 GMT -5
I hope the surgery works out well for you Fangster. Hang in there, and let the healing take place...…..
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Post by whitefang on Aug 6, 2020 9:26:41 GMT -5
It will be slow going(no pun intended  ) but what else am I doing otherwise?  Whitefang |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2020 18:41:56 GMT -5
Old age is a real treat. You gotta be as tough as nails to get through your later years.... ![[beer]](http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/drink/smileys-drinking-beer.gif) |
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Post by whitefang on Aug 7, 2020 9:14:26 GMT -5
Or at least as tough as the SCREWS in my spine! Whitefang |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2020 18:09:25 GMT -5
Or at least as tough as the SCREWS in my spine! Whitefang Wow.... I would not be looking foreword to that Fangster. I am sure it is better than what they fixed, but it is a tough but doable recovery. I see folks that have similar fixes here in my retirement community, and you would be surprised at some of the things these old folks have overcome. Best wishes for s speedier recovery than the doctors predicted. |
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Post by jbone on Aug 7, 2020 21:46:56 GMT -5
Fang, what area of the spine needed to be fused? Just curious. I have no hardware- yet.
There is a retired guy here, electrician, who is workamping here. He broke his back years ago and is bent over when he walks. He also had a real bad leg break a few years ago and has plates and screws in his thighbone. He's one of those guys who is always busy.
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Post by whitefang on Aug 8, 2020 8:40:06 GMT -5
Not sure of the L numbers, but somewhere down twixt the lumbar region and the sacrum. There's also apparently something like PVC piping used to correct a bit of scoliosis. So if anything goes wrong with something I might have to call a plumber! Whitefang |
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Post by tinsmith on Sept 2, 2020 7:22:52 GMT -5
I had L-1 &2 done in 2014 and L-3,4,5 done in 2015, 10 months later....Laminectomies.....all great fun
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Post by whitefang on Sept 2, 2020 10:28:50 GMT -5
EEP! Had to look up Laminectomy. Sounds pretty gruesome. Mine was fusion surgery. Fairly gruesome too. Got five or six titanium screws holding some stuff together, and bone bank material replacing one or two discs. And what was known as a "facet cyst" that was inside one of my vertebrae and pressing into the spinal cord removed. unlike you, I've not committed the vertebrae numbers to memory. It all took place down around the lumbar and sacrum area. Great fun for sure. Whitefang |
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Post by jbone on Sept 2, 2020 12:00:49 GMT -5
Jolene had a fall on a beach some 18 months ago and burst fractured her top lumbar vert. It stopped us cold for a while but she came back as hard as she could! No surgery. The painkiller they prescribed was really bad on her and she gave it up pretty quick.
I have been lucky considering some of the crazy stuff I used to do. No fractures except a toe one time. I have made use of chiropractors for many years now and also somehow never broke a vert although I've been in several car wrecks and had work accidents, rode bikes and motorcycles like a maniac, climbed rocks, dove off high places. Generally did high risk behavior for many years.
I have worn my shoulders out pretty badly. I manage pain pretty much daily.
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Post by tinsmith on Sept 2, 2020 22:03:20 GMT -5
EEP! Had to look up Laminectomy. Sounds pretty gruesome. Mine was fusion surgery. Fairly gruesome too. Got five or six titanium screws holding some stuff together, and bone bank material replacing one or two discs. And what was known as a "facet cyst" that was inside one of my vertebrae and pressing into the spinal cord removed. unlike you, I've not committed the vertebrae numbers to memory. It all took place down around the lumbar and sacrum area. Great fun for sure. Whitefang There's only 5......So they were all done... Like you, my spinal cord was being squished.....they had to make room.....I could walk 30 seconds and then sit down....anyway I had to do something..... Sorry I've been absent...I'll try to stop by more...... I was here before the s** t hit the fan and left a bad taste in everyone's mouth for various forums...... |
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Post by whitefang on Sept 3, 2020 10:02:31 GMT -5
Well, please do try to drop by more often. The more the merrier! Whitefang |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 20:55:03 GMT -5
I manage pain pretty much daily. I ma familiar with managing pain, as you know I was a bricklayer, and I came home every night filled with discomfort and sometimes out right pain from the stuff I lifted during the day. Example: If I laid 300-8x8x16 concrete blocks at 36 pounds each, I lifted at least 10,800 pounds that day with my left arm and probably 3000 to 4000 pounds daily with the right arm. I would go straight from my pickup truck into the shower at arrival home from work, and that would sooth me a bit, enough to get some sleep and resume the next day doing the same thing. I know pain. |
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) but what else am I doing otherwise? 
