Yeah, that'll do it. No words friend. Guess you gotta reach for your inner soldier at this point. No sugarcoating it from me. Keep hanging tough!
No choice right now but being in a backwater doesn't help . I'll head back to NOLA for the next procedure . Docs here have made some rude remarks about healthcare in NOLA but the fact is is that they're bumpkins in comparison .
Lumbar laminectomy was just done , kinda like tenderloining a hog . same muscles are scraped off the spine before removing the bone . Next is gonna be removal of two discs and spinal fusion . then re-stabilize the cervical surgery site . things have been out of line , got a big lump on my left shoulder from muscles not being where they should be . turning in to F'ng Quasimodo . They are militantly anti-nicotine here to the point of being ignorant . I know far more than most of them , they just spout party line and not treat people properly . None of that crap in NOLA . maybe spend some time with Scot while there , he is hanging in there . love to grab a few beers with him .
What a clusterf**k! You still have a long haul in front of you. Well, not much you can do about it except changing docs.
The worst part is that a Dr. in NOLA developed a new procedure to treat people like me with far less pain and recovery time . A tiny titanium jack is inserted through a micro incision and basically jacks the bones back in to place and relieves the pressure on the spinal cord . The results are immediate . I have two four inch gashes at the base of my spine that have to heal plus the screws and brackets and the muscles that were cut off the spine . I didn't know about the new procedure beforehand , I should kick my own azz for being ignorant of it but my situation was considered urgent .
Seems the older we get , the faster years go by..............
