The surgery was done here with US doctors at UCSF. And it went wonderfully, surgery 3/3/09 and no meds today (after 8 years of high dose oxycontin and the last two bedridden with same meds). Very impressed with the docs and convenience for us.
His only real struggle is getting back into life - fx, actually feeling indigestion after years of masking normal feelings, and rebuilding core and stamina which both have a long way to go. (All the result of inactivity, not the lumbar problem.)
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Deborah
C3-5 fused 2001
Hub: C3/4 fused 2001
Hub: TDR Prodisc L4/5, Fusion L5/S1 on 3/3/2009
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