Crystal, thank you so much for posting!!!
Please accept my apology for such a bumbling first encounter. I hope you can see why your original post raised questions for me. I'm very glad that I didn't just nuke in and that we had a chance to get here instead.
I'm so sorry about your situation. Sounds rough. I had a large thoracic herniation early this year and had surgery on in in April. I had been avoiding cervical surgery for years and with the neuro deficits associated with the new T1-2 herniation, I could not wait any longer. While I had great early success in the weeks following my surgery, I have more thoracic pain now. I think I have more bad stuff happening lower in my spine.
Do you have neuro deficits associated with your sequester? My understanding of the advice I've gotten in similar situations is that if the neurologic deficits are substantial, that rises to the level of needing surgery 'sooner rather than later'. With my wife's lumbar herniation, early advice was to wait and see about simply resorbing the herniation. Later we were told that if she wasn't going in the right direction at 3 months, that it was unilikely that she'd be one of the lucky ones.
Call me if you want to talk... office number on the GPN site. PM me if you want to talk this weekend. (no charge)
Again... please accept my apology for everything I said above. I'll leave it there for entertainment value.
All the best,
Mark
PS... the link to the Canadian presentation was great. I'll have more to say when I have a chance to look it over more carefully.
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