D4 Update?
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I remember putting socks on might take 45 minutes - kind of like a painful game of ring toss. I'd be terrified of the children - just so easy to violate protocol and try too much. I hope she has some meddlesome neighbors who can bring in some food - and borrow the kids.
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@kluurs said in D4 Update?:
I remember putting socks on might take 45 minutes
When D4 was in the hospital after her 1st operation, Occupational Therapy came with all kinds of gizmos to help with ADL (Activities of Daily Living).
She was in complete awe of the sock helper.
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Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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Saw the PA yesterday - she's 16 days postop.
To me, looks like fatigue is getting better. Pain well-controlled on her pre-surgical meds, and she's optimistic that once this heals up, she'll be able to get off everything.
Still has residual weakness in her left leg (that's the one which had the nerve pain) and surgeon wants her to try some PT. I'm skeptical that PT will do anything, it's weakness due to the nerve, not the muscle, but whatever.
No driving for another 8 weeks (ugh) and a followup visit in 4 weeks.
Yesterday's x-ray.
See that thing the arrow's pointing at? That's a spacer to keep the L5S1 disc space from collapsing. She's had so much trauma there that, for all practical purposes, there's no disc left - so to avoid nerve pinching, gotta keep the space open.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in D4 Update?:
Pain well-controlled on her pre-surgical meds, and she's optimistic that once this heals up, she'll be able to get off everything.
That's very good.
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@Jolly said in D4 Update?:
That's very good.
After the initial fusion, 8 years ago, she was on no meds - after the postop stuff. However, she started getting spasms, back pain and pain down the leg from the L5S1 area. That's what was fixed.
They found a broken screw from the first fusion and removed all the hardware, replacing it with new stuff.
Path report:
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Hopefully, the two little linebackers she has in the house are gentle while things heal. Knowing what dad did, she probably understands the risks/rewards on pain management better than most folks.
When I was doing the back destruction thing, my spouse, who is protocol focused, would never think of giving a pain killer at 3 hours, 47 minutes if it was supposed to be given ever 4 hours. Grrrrr....
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@George-K Hope things will continue to go well.
