Wednesday, June 1, 2011

oh my neck!

Today my neck is KILLING ME.  Ok, it's hurt worse before, but...

2 1/2 years ago I woke up one morning with two herniated discs in my neck... After being prescribed physical therapy, which I "failed out" of, I spent several weeks on bedrest, steroids & dilauded.  Finally I had "anterior cervical discectomy with fusion".  My surgery was not completely successful.  Two bone grafts were taken from my right hip and placed between C5&C6 and C6&C7. For some reason one of the bone grafts did not heal.  In 17 years of doing this procedure, I am only the 3rd patient my surgeon has seen this happen to.


This photo was taken about 5 days post op.

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