Good luck with your upcoming ADR surgery coming up Trucklt. Yeah, the back and hip are so interrelated that it can be one long process to find the actual pain generator. And often times, you have more than one, which makes it even trickier for doctors. (and very frustrating for us patients)
Toebin, the PE is behind me, but the fact that I have had two now puts me in a very precarious place. I am still on blood thinners and will be put back on them rigorously after the hip replacement. (you have to go off 5 days before surgery)
Hopefully, I can get all of this behind me soon and get on with the job of living! 
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CindyLou
bicycle accident 6/19/01
2 compression fractures, T12, L1;
vertibroplasty @ above levels, 9/15/01
4/06 hip labral tear repair
4/07 Lumbar ProDisc replacement by Dr. B., 3 levels; L3-6
7/2/08 ALIF of L6-S1
7/30/08 Removed bone cement.
8/7/08 Diagnosed with pulmonary embolism, double pneumonia, collapsed left lung, pleurisy, pleural effusion.
3/10/09 right SI Joint Fusion; seeing light at end of tunnel, for first time in 8 years!!
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