BrittleBones

Finally...I heard from my surgeon's secretary today. My surgery will take place next Wednesday in the afternoon. Instead of booting somebody else out of the lineup to fit me in, he was able to get extra operating room time on a day when he doesn't normally operate. Wednesday's are the day when he performs all his injections, floroscopy studies, ESI's, etc. He has clinic on Monday and Tuesdays and then does his surgeries on Thursday & Fridays. So it looks like the people who may have had spinal injections scheduled for Wednesday will now have to reschedule to allow me to have my fusion done. I thank them all anonymously!! It looks like it will be about a 4 hour surgery, nothing too complicated - he will fuse me from T3-T6 after removing the offending bone pieces that are impinging on my spine. The post-op hospital stay will be about 1 week and I don't expect to be going to any rehab afterwards. In the past I've come straight home after a fusion and spent the first week just doing very basic things - they send me home with a "No BLT's Rule"! It isn't an anti bacon lettuce and tomato diet, it's a ban on Bending-Lifting-Twisting! I'll probably start some home physical rehab shortly after that. Thanks for everyone's support. All the best - K'Mac