I never knew... - Spinal Cord Disorders Message Board

TropicalFox · 04-04-2003, 09:18 AM

...how delicious a can of campbell's chicken noodle soup could taste!

I just finished eating my first meal after surgery... one week after the fact.

Things lookand feel better when your tummy is full of warm food.

Thank you Lord!

Sandra

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" In the middle of every ocean of difficulty is an island of opportunity."
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winged phantom · 04-04-2003, 10:48 AM

Hey Sandra,
Soooo good to see your post

Yeah, isn't it funny how the simple things can be so delicious and good? Glad to hear you are progressing. It must be a huge relief to know the worst is behind you.

Just to clarify: did you have a partial corpectomy with a three level fusion? I'm getting very nervous about my own 3-level job coming up, so I'm trying to compare how you feel to what I might expect.

Did you ever see the poem and the stuff about the Red Hat ladies? Are you a member?

Take care

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joprud · 04-04-2003, 11:14 AM

Hi Sandra,

Glad to see your post.

Campbell's chicken soup is MMMMM...MMMMM...Good! (insert music here)

Glad you can finally enjoy a meal!

I look forward to hearing from you again soon.

Take Care,

Joanne

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TropicalFox · 04-04-2003, 11:16 AM

hey hon... gracias for your kind words

i had a C4 corpectomy with intervening discectomies at C3-4 and C4-5 planned but the ns was able to do c5-6 also, so i have no idea what it would be called now... i have a titanium spinal cage filled with the bones he took out from the corpectomy, crushed up... a titanium plate and screws too. my incision is 3 inches long and the whole process took almost 3 1/2 hours. i have internal stitches with the outer part glued, no bandage at all.

tell me more about the poem and the red hat ladies

hugs

sandra

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" In the middle of every ocean of difficulty is an island of opportunity."
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BWL · 04-04-2003, 11:24 AM

Hi Sandra,

You sound great! At least by written word. I'm thrilled to hear that you're able to eat and that it gives you such pleasure. Maybe you could try some alphabet soup and see if you can spell "titanium spinal cage."

Keep resting, keep healing.

Bruce

PS Do you think we should be worried about Joanne? I'm noticing that many of her recent posts use this guy

I wonder if it's a cry for help.

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ACDF with plating and donor bone C6-7 (1/29/03)