[jsewell]

I saw my surgeon, i am now 4 weeks out of surgery. We discussed the possibility of fusing the lumbar area from the back again., We still have time to wait on that decision,. Apparently he said he would not do this operation on his wife, mother, sister etc. If their spine were in my shape. My bones are so weak when he did the surgery from the front the cages are subsiding into the vertebrae. so they are not holding the space open as they should have instead they are kind of just sinking into the vertabrae. He is afraid if he tries to go in to the back , as he did last year that the screws will cause more fractures every time he tries to use one, I currently have 4 good sized fractures in my lumbar spine. so i suggested spinal cement., He thought that was a good idea and when i see him in one month if i am still in this amount of pain , that is what we will do.
Do you think i should be concerned that i came up with the idea?

On to the drop foot, no improvement. I am open to any suggestions. It is too early to have an EMG, but again when i see him in one month it will be ok so we will schedule it then. He said it does come from the L5 area and last year when i had the EMG it showed problems in that nerve. It showed current inflammation as well as damage. I just hope this can be fixed. He said maybe it isn't even a never spine problem. Maybe a tendon.
Which i have been wondering,even when i was in the hospital. I had a call on the friday before surgery that i had a urinary tract infection. It was a rush to get meds into me as surgery was on monday morning so i was told that the prescription was called into my pharmacy. that was a joke in itself as my small town phramacy was closing in 15minutes and i live about 15 minutes away and then need to park and gimp to the store. so Rei from my doctors office called the pharmacist and i am a good customer so he agreed to wait for me. anyway the drug was cipro, one of the ones Maria had posted the warning about. so did it cause a tendon rupture without lots of pain? I did ask the primary doc that was following me in the hospital and he said he didn't think so because it would have been so painful. So i am on hold on the foot drop.

I am no longer on bed rest, i am not supposed to do much, and when i mentioned housework, he just didn't say much but to ask aboiut my kids and how they were doing, so i will do little bits and take many breaks. I am still spending a fair amount of time in bed. Yesterday i needed to go to the bank and the pharmacy and it did hurt so i am not going to stay out that long again. oh and target.
WEll sorry that was a book, that is what happens when you are in bed most of the day!!!!
judy