Oh btw I *get* to have surgery next week

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Oh btw I *get* to have surgery next week

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Yea, so I am going in next Thursday at 8:30am for surgery.
1 week after turning 30.

Yay.

But I will be, as Duhard mentioned, crushing egos on the golf course within 2 weeks after.

And I will crush them up until next wednesday.
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Post by Dr_Watson »

gl...
back surgury?
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Sort of...lower back area.
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Post by tnf »

But nothing as dramatic as my cervical fusion.
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Post by Don Carlos »

wow....GL dude :)
Hope everything turns out great
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good for you?
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Post by PieceMaker »

Don Carlos wrote:wow....GL dude :)
Hope everything turns out great
riddla wrote:Hope it goes well. Here's to a speedy recovery.
All of the above!

All WILL go well and you'll be back in no time.

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Post by tnf »

There is a bone spur(s)? that they are going to take care of.
So it is not a life-or-death issue, or anything dramatic. But not going to be a fun week of recovery..heh.
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Post by Dave »

Get a local and you can play your PSP... bring extra batteries
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I will drink a beer to you quick recovery tnf
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Post by bork[e] »

while you are out the doc will slip his man part into your not so girly opening, it's been done before during the above "normal procedure"...just a friendly fyi of course.
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Post by S@M »

back surgery for chronic pain?

not very good odds as I understand, AHCPR (now AHRQ) found no difference between surgery and conservative treament - but good luck anyhow
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back surgery freaks me out
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Good luck man. Hope you'll be running and jumping around in no time again.
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Dr_Watson wrote:black surgury?
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tnf wrote:But nothing as dramatic as my cervical fusion.
Your cervix was fused? :confused:
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Post by shadd_. »

what is the procedure for bone spurs? do they just kind of scrape it down or?
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Kills On Site wrote:I will drink a beer to you quick recovery tnf
yea well sayd me too :up:
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SplishSplash wrote:
tnf wrote:But nothing as dramatic as my cervical fusion.
Your cervix was fused? :confused:
Cervical means neck in this case. I had c6-c7 fused (they take the disc between the vertebrae out, put a small piece of bone from a cadaver in there, and screw a metal plate over all of it.)
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Post by Canis »

No offense dude, but your spine needs to go...
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Post by tnf »

The disc was probably weakened from years of weight lifting (squatting), and a very minor auto accident, where a lady drover her SUV into the back of my car at about 5 mph. I was actually leaning my head back to take a drink of a protein shake when she hit me...so my neck was already bent back, and when I got hit it whipped back ever farther. I settled with their insurance company, had a sore neck for a couple days, and thought nothing of it until 2 years later, at the golf course, having just put an extra-stiff shaft in my driver - I had to keep the clubhead speed around 125 to hit that thing, which was not easy. During a swing, I felt a snap back there...which was the disc at C6-C7 rupturing.
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Canis wrote:No offense dude, but your spine needs to go...
Yea, that is probably true. It's not limiting any activities, just painful. But I don't/won't let it slow me down. I'd rather live the next 10 years going 100% and then be done with sports forever than I would spending 40 years going 50%...which I wouldn't enjoy anyhow. And you never know what they'll be doing in the operating room 10 years from now.
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+ you get the good pain killers. :icon14:
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