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Hi all.

First for all thanks for all the well wishes.

I had the operation on Tuesday 1-16. It was a 3 1/2 hour surgery. I was
finally released on Thursday 1-18. That night was the first good night of
sleep I had since the operation as there was no hospital staff to wake me up
every hour through the night.

My right leg is somewhat numb and I need a walker to get around as it will
not consistently hold my weight. I had been confined to the 2nd story of
house for the past few days but decided I had enough of the confinement so I
got downstairs like I got upstairs on Thursday....on my butt and one step at
a time.

With 312 unread messages (after I filtered out the ones from the a-holes,
including the non boating golfers) I have a lot of reading to do

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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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On 1/21/2007 10:02 AM, JimH wrote:
Hi all.

First for all thanks for all the well wishes.

I had the operation on Tuesday 1-16. It was a 3 1/2 hour surgery. I was
finally released on Thursday 1-18. That night was the first good night
of sleep I had since the operation as there was no hospital staff to wake
me up every hour through the night.

My right leg is somewhat numb and I need a walker to get around as it
will not consistently hold my weight. I had been confined to the 2nd
story of house for the past few days but decided I had enough of the
confinement so I got downstairs like I got upstairs on Thursday....on my
butt and one step at a time.

With 312 unread messages (after I filtered out the ones from the a-holes,
including the non boating golfers) I have a lot of reading to do


It's always a good thing when you get out of a hospital alive!

As long as your middle leg isn't numb...

As a matter of fact it is. My knee is week from side to side and I cannot
raise my leg when sitting of lying down more than a few inches. Although I
am obviously concerned I was told that this condition will improve and
eventually vanish.

The Orthopedic Surgeon who did the operation is world known. He operated on
Cal Ripken's back. Christopher Reeves flew into to Cleveland to consult
with him. The only reason I was able to hook up with him (and so soon) is
that my sister works for the ortho department for the same hospital and is
in tight with the Dr's head nurse.

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"JimH" wrote in message
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Hi all.

First for all thanks for all the well wishes.

I had the operation on Tuesday 1-16. It was a 3 1/2 hour surgery. I was
finally released on Thursday 1-18. That night was the first good night of
sleep I had since the operation as there was no hospital staff to wake me
up every hour through the night.

My right leg is somewhat numb and I need a walker to get around as it will
not consistently hold my weight. I had been confined to the 2nd story of
house for the past few days but decided I had enough of the confinement so
I got downstairs like I got upstairs on Thursday....on my butt and one
step at a time.

With 312 unread messages (after I filtered out the ones from the a-holes,
including the non boating golfers) I have a lot of reading to do


Congratulations.
We had a scare here also. My mother got the flu and we think she inhaled a
bit of her vomit overnight and she quickly developed pneumonia.
It looked tricky...especially when the medical team wanted a meeing with the
family. After four days the meds finally cut in and she improved steadily.
After a 12 day stay she was released back home on the 18th. At this point
she is only able to do three laps of our hall, kitchen, living room & dining
room 'oval track' but we'll work at it.

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"Don White" wrote in message
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"JimH" wrote in message
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Hi all.

First for all thanks for all the well wishes.

I had the operation on Tuesday 1-16. It was a 3 1/2 hour surgery. I was
finally released on Thursday 1-18. That night was the first good night
of sleep I had since the operation as there was no hospital staff to wake
me up every hour through the night.

My right leg is somewhat numb and I need a walker to get around as it
will not consistently hold my weight. I had been confined to the 2nd
story of house for the past few days but decided I had enough of the
confinement so I got downstairs like I got upstairs on Thursday....on my
butt and one step at a time.

With 312 unread messages (after I filtered out the ones from the a-holes,
including the non boating golfers) I have a lot of reading to do


Congratulations.
We had a scare here also. My mother got the flu and we think she inhaled
a bit of her vomit overnight and she quickly developed pneumonia.
It looked tricky...especially when the medical team wanted a meeing with
the family. After four days the meds finally cut in and she improved
steadily.
After a 12 day stay she was released back home on the 18th. At this point
she is only able to do three laps of our hall, kitchen, living room &
dining room 'oval track' but we'll work at it.


OMG! Glad to hear she is improving......pneumonia can be fatal. I will
keep her in my prayers Don.

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:02:10 -0500, "JimH"
wrote:

I had been confined to the 2nd story of
house for the past few days but decided I had enough of the confinement so
I
got downstairs like I got upstairs on Thursday....on my butt and one step
at
a time.

Let me see - recent back operation - goes down stairs on butt.

Yep, sounds pretty good to me! :)

Hey, glad you are ok man. Take care of yourself and don't do anything
stupid like I would/did/have done/will do again.

Thanks Tom. Going down the stairs on my butt (lifting, then letting myself
down on the lower step using my arms and good leg) is actually the
recommended way of getting down stairs after back surgery as it eliminates
the chances of falling. To go up I just push myself up, step by step, with
my good leg.

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On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:05:32 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

On 1/21/2007 10:02 AM, JimH wrote:
Hi all.

First for all thanks for all the well wishes.

I had the operation on Tuesday 1-16. It was a 3 1/2 hour surgery. I was
finally released on Thursday 1-18. That night was the first good night of
sleep I had since the operation as there was no hospital staff to wake me up
every hour through the night.

My right leg is somewhat numb and I need a walker to get around as it will
not consistently hold my weight. I had been confined to the 2nd story of
house for the past few days but decided I had enough of the confinement so I
got downstairs like I got upstairs on Thursday....on my butt and one step at
a time.

With 312 unread messages (after I filtered out the ones from the a-holes,
including the non boating golfers) I have a lot of reading to do




It's always a good thing when you get out of a hospital alive!

As long as your middle leg isn't numb...

I sure hope he doesn't feel he has to respond to all 312 messages! Gosh,
that could wear out a filter!
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On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:31:58 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


"JimH" wrote in message
.. .
Hi all.

First for all thanks for all the well wishes.

I had the operation on Tuesday 1-16. It was a 3 1/2 hour surgery. I was
finally released on Thursday 1-18. That night was the first good night of
sleep I had since the operation as there was no hospital staff to wake me
up every hour through the night.

My right leg is somewhat numb and I need a walker to get around as it will
not consistently hold my weight. I had been confined to the 2nd story of
house for the past few days but decided I had enough of the confinement so
I got downstairs like I got upstairs on Thursday....on my butt and one
step at a time.

With 312 unread messages (after I filtered out the ones from the a-holes,
including the non boating golfers) I have a lot of reading to do


Congratulations.
We had a scare here also. My mother got the flu and we think she inhaled a
bit of her vomit overnight and she quickly developed pneumonia.
It looked tricky...especially when the medical team wanted a meeing with the
family. After four days the meds finally cut in and she improved steadily.
After a 12 day stay she was released back home on the 18th. At this point
she is only able to do three laps of our hall, kitchen, living room & dining
room 'oval track' but we'll work at it.


Don, two houses down from us lived a lady about 90 years old. Her husband
died last summer, and many of us in the neighborhood would help out with
yard work, soup, or whatever, even though she had children living only a
few blocks away.

Yesterday I looked out front to see the street filled with fire trucks. Her
house was burning. She died in the fire. We don't know the whole story yet,
the cause, etc. I thought I'd share the story with you just so you'd keep
things like that in mind with your mom. There are lots of things that can
cause a fire when a person gets old, slower, and forgetful.


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John H

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"JimH" wrote in message
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OMG! Glad to hear she is improving......pneumonia can be fatal. I will
keep her in my prayers Don.
Thanks Jim.

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"JohnH" wrote in message
...

Don, two houses down from us lived a lady about 90 years old. Her husband
died last summer, and many of us in the neighborhood would help out with
yard work, soup, or whatever, even though she had children living only a
few blocks away.

Yesterday I looked out front to see the street filled with fire trucks.
Her
house was burning. She died in the fire. We don't know the whole story
yet,
the cause, etc. I thought I'd share the story with you just so you'd keep
things like that in mind with your mom. There are lots of things that can
cause a fire when a person gets old, slower, and forgetful.


--
***** Have a super day! *****

John H

We try too keep her 'wing' safe as possible. She sometimes does push her
knitting supplies up against the electric baseboard heater... (tight
quarters) but I always point it out to her and move the material away.
No cooking goes on in there, just the usual living room/bedroom type
appliances.

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On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:49:19 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:


"JohnH" wrote in message
.. .

Don, two houses down from us lived a lady about 90 years old. Her husband
died last summer, and many of us in the neighborhood would help out with
yard work, soup, or whatever, even though she had children living only a
few blocks away.

Yesterday I looked out front to see the street filled with fire trucks.
Her
house was burning. She died in the fire. We don't know the whole story
yet,
the cause, etc. I thought I'd share the story with you just so you'd keep
things like that in mind with your mom. There are lots of things that can
cause a fire when a person gets old, slower, and forgetful.


--
***** Have a super day! *****

John H

We try too keep her 'wing' safe as possible. She sometimes does push her
knitting supplies up against the electric baseboard heater... (tight
quarters) but I always point it out to her and move the material away.
No cooking goes on in there, just the usual living room/bedroom type
appliances.


Good show.
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***** Have a super day! *****

John H

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Wishing you a full and speedy recovery.

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"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Wishing you a full and speedy recovery.


Thank you Chuck.

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Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back issues
as well. What did you have done?

"JimH" wrote in message
...
Hi all.

First for all thanks for all the well wishes.

I had the operation on Tuesday 1-16. It was a 3 1/2 hour surgery. I was
finally released on Thursday 1-18. That night was the first good night of
sleep I had since the operation as there was no hospital staff to wake me
up every hour through the night.

My right leg is somewhat numb and I need a walker to get around as it will
not consistently hold my weight. I had been confined to the 2nd story of
house for the past few days but decided I had enough of the confinement so
I got downstairs like I got upstairs on Thursday....on my butt and one
step at a time.

With 312 unread messages (after I filtered out the ones from the a-holes,
including the non boating golfers) I have a lot of reading to do

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"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem. The
doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing more
room for the nerves to pass through.

You can be in the best of shape and still develop back problems.

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JimH wrote:
You can be in the best of shape and still develop back problems.

agreed!

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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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On 1/22/2007 10:23 AM, JimH wrote:
"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem.
The doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing
more room for the nerves to pass through.




You obviously did not see the AMA article that showed how this condition
could be alleviated by registering as a Democrat and voting for Hillary
Clinton for President in 2008.

The you'd have a pain in the a**. 8)

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They go through the front or the back? Minimally invasive or regular?
My troubles are l4-l5-s1 but if I get surgery it will be a double
fusion. I don't have enough disks left there to fix.

JimH wrote:
"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem. The
doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing more
room for the nerves to pass through.

You can be in the best of shape and still develop back problems.

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harry, It does work on having a stonger back and a stronget backbone..
No doubt!

But you didn't read the warning about side effects like "Perpetual
Diahrea.."



Harry Krause wrote:
On 1/22/2007 10:23 AM, JimH wrote:
"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem. The
doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing more
room for the nerves to pass through.




You obviously did not see the AMA article that showed how this condition
could be alleviated by registering as a Democrat and voting for Hillary
Clinton for President in 2008.

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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
On 1/22/2007 10:23 AM, JimH wrote:
"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem.
The doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing
more room for the nerves to pass through.




You obviously did not see the AMA article that showed how this condition
could be alleviated by registering as a Democrat and voting for Hillary
Clinton for President in 2008.


But then I would have constant diarrhea and nausea!

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"jamesgangnc" wrote in message
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They go through the front or the back? Minimally invasive or regular?
My troubles are l4-l5-s1 but if I get surgery it will be a double
fusion. I don't have enough disks left there to fix.

JimH wrote:
"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem.
The
doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing more
room for the nerves to pass through.

You can be in the best of shape and still develop back problems.


They went in through the back in my case.

Sorry to hear about your condition. There is some progress in the US on
replacing discs with artificial discs, but the FDA has not yet approved it.
It is apparently being done in Europe though. This would eliminate the
need to fuse your vertebrae.

http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/back...eplacement.htm

http://www.spineuniverse.com/display...ticle1671.html

http://www.spine-health.com/research...ificial01.html

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Thanks. It is approved in the US now but I don't think any insurance
companies are paying yet. They won't do a double so it doesn't matter for
me anyway.

"JimH" wrote in message
...

"jamesgangnc" wrote in message
ups.com...
They go through the front or the back? Minimally invasive or regular?
My troubles are l4-l5-s1 but if I get surgery it will be a double
fusion. I don't have enough disks left there to fix.

JimH wrote:
"James" wrote in message
hlink.net...
Glad to hear you came out in one piece. Hopefully all the rest is
temporary. I missed the details of your surgery plans. I have back
issues as well. What did you have done?


Thanks James!

The official name of the surgery was "disk decompression" with a bone
opening procedure (I don't know the technical name of that operation).

The surgery concentrated on L2-L3, the spinal area where a herniation
and
bulging of the disk was causing my leg numbness and leg/back pain.
Additionally, the bone channel which the nerves pass through had a very
small opening (a condition I had since birth) compounding the problem.
The
doctor cut away the herniation and opened the bone channel allowing more
room for the nerves to pass through.

You can be in the best of shape and still develop back problems.


They went in through the back in my case.

Sorry to hear about your condition. There is some progress in the US on
replacing discs with artificial discs, but the FDA has not yet approved
it. It is apparently being done in Europe though. This would eliminate
the need to fuse your vertebrae.

http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/back...eplacement.htm

http://www.spineuniverse.com/display...ticle1671.html

http://www.spine-health.com/research...ificial01.html

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Sorry to hear about your condition. There is some progress in the US on
replacing discs with artificial discs, but the FDA has not yet approved it.
It is apparently being done in Europe though. This would eliminate the
need to fuse your vertebrae.

My Dad had to have surgery on his neck vertibrea and they replaced one of
them that they couldn't reconstruct with pins with a cadaver vertebrea. He
has recovered pretty well but was having similar symptoms. He was getting
numbness and tingling in his arm and fingers that persisted after the surgery
but slowly went away. A good surgeon can do a lot to help you so I'm glad
you found a very competent one.

Bill

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