I got selected for the Artificial Disk!! - Spinal Cord Disorders Message Board

Rolex · 02-09-2004, 11:37 AM

Hello everyone,
I am excited and very scared because I was just informed I qualified for the study and I would be recieving the artificial disc!! I will be having the surgery
sometime in March. I am scared of surgery so if anyone has any tips or suggestions please let me know. Thanks in advance.
Ava

nero · 02-09-2004, 04:07 PM

CONGRATULATIONS

WISH IT WAS ME

My surgeon in Brantford,Ontario mentioned the coming availability of this and that he was having dinner with some surgeon up here who is on the initial stages of doing the ADR. Must be the same guy?

I am happy for you. Seems like it might curb the domino affect. I unfortunately did not get this option Nov 10/03 but doing well from ACDF C5-6 own bone and plate. I just got called today for April 22/04 for my microdiskectomy on l5-s1 herniated disc.

I am nervous but happy to get this major painful inconvenience behind me. I feel like I may just become the BIONIC WOMAN after this.

You will be fine

Rest up and take your vitamins and don't stress

. Think about how fortunate you are to be given this opportunity that I would gladly have waited for if offered and if the pain hadn't been so excrutiating for sooo long.

I wish you all the best and will be rooting for you...See ya

Sincerely.. nearly new again.. Nero

Rolex · 02-09-2004, 04:18 PM

Thank you for the kind words Nero. Where are you located? I am in Reno,Nev. and go to the
Seirra Neurosurgery Group. Dr. Lynch has performed about 13 of the AD. He does about 300 fusion surgeries a year. He did his residency at the Mayo Clinic. He must be pretty good if he is involved in the study. (I hope anyway)
Thanks again for your words of encouragement. I wish you could have gotten the disc as well. I hope everything goes well for you. Thanks again...Ava