Hard Wear Removal Surgery
I had lumbar hard wear removal surgery on Sept 10th. Let me tell you what a difference that made. I had previously had a revision of T12-L3 and an L4-5 fusion in August that caused severe , confined to a wheel chair pain. I could not walk one step. This Sept surgery removed all the hard wear from L2-L5 and i woke up with the pain gone. Pretty much totally gone. My legs are weak, especially my right leg after 6 weeks of bed time but i expect a full recovery.
My surgeon put in more bone to help with the fusion seeing the bracing system is gone.
I do have low bone density, but we are still hopeful that this will fuse. The next step if it has any trouble now is going in from the front.
But all is good
judy
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2007 ACDF 4-7
2008 hip , knee scope, hip replacement
2009 thoracic T-5 thru T-11fusion
2009 VATS T7-8, posterior only T11-12. removal of thoracic hard wear
2010 lung surgery
2010 T2-L2 kyphosis correction
2010 Kyphoplasty T-3, T-4
2011 Cervical osteotomy ,revision C4-T5
2011 Foot surgery
2011 Revision fusion T7 thru L4/laminectomy
2012 Hammertoe correction left foot
2012 Revision fusion T-12 thru L5
2012 Revision fusion L4-L5
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