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Oh btw I *get* to have surgery next week
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:06 am
by tnf
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:08 am
by Dr_Watson
gl...
back surgury?
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:14 am
by tnf
Sort of...lower back area.
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:14 am
by tnf
But nothing as dramatic as my cervical fusion.
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:14 am
by Don Carlos
wow....GL dude
Hope everything turns out great
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:16 am
by Guest
good for you?
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:21 am
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.
:icon14:
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:21 am
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:31 am
by Dave
Get a local and you can play your PSP... bring extra batteries
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:35 am
by Kills On Site
I will drink a beer to you quick recovery tnf
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:51 am
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 6:21 am
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
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:00 am
by MKJ
back surgery freaks me out
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:23 am
by Eraser
Good luck man. Hope you'll be running and jumping around in no time again.
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:26 am
by rep
Dr_Watson wrote:black surgury?
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:32 am
by SplishSplash
tnf wrote:But nothing as dramatic as my cervical fusion.
Your cervix was fused?
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 1:30 pm
by shadd_.
what is the procedure for bone spurs? do they just kind of scrape it down or?
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 1:32 pm
by plained
Kills On Site wrote:I will drink a beer to you quick recovery tnf
yea well sayd me too
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:54 pm
by tnf
SplishSplash wrote:tnf wrote:But nothing as dramatic as my cervical fusion.
Your cervix was fused?
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.)
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:19 pm
by Canis
No offense dude, but your spine needs to go...
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:22 pm
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:25 pm
by tnf
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.
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 11:39 pm
by Dr_Watson
+ you get the good pain killers. :icon14: