Thank-you all for your insight and suggestions. Harrison, I did read your posting earlier about hip replacement and spine correlation. Makes perfect sense. I do have a signature...I just left it off my last post. Grizz, especially what you said made sense about certain muscles doing work they were not made for. That's exactly how my body feels. Tugging and pulling itself all in the wrong direction. I want to stay "up" for this surgery, but it is hard knowing it's going to be worse and more painful, before it gets better. Especially that post by the fellow (sorry can't remember the name) who is just now contemplating going back to work 5 months post-op. Is that within "normal" rehab range for a 2 or 3 level? Everyone's recovery seems all over the map. That's scaring me. I'm going to go stretch now.
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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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