Diane has surgery in a couple of hours.
Good news, bad news....
New MRI (never would have been done anywere else) shows dramatic shrinking of sequester... completely different situation. Symptoms are still getting worse, but the size and shape of the fragment is way different. It has shrunk down to the immediate protrusion outside of the bulge.... hence the still worsening symptoms as the bulge should be much denser now and it is still on nerve root ganglion.
Armed with the new MRI, she's no longer an extremed case and they don't have to fish around where the fragment used to be.... doing surgery open or endoscopic based on the old MRI (just a couple of months old) would have meant a lot of unnecessary looking and poking.
More later..... gotta go now.
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