off subject but I sure am happy

[bunnytowne]

I went to my back Dr. today.  They have a new one at the spine center group.  I had found online that my ins. was once again covering those script pain patches.  The Dr. was more than happy to write script for that.  Will be taking pet or cat scan on my back.  Also we talked about the knee. HE said noo surgery not wise you will need knee replacement later on since that cushion tween the 2 bones will be wearing on each other. Also they have a Dr. who injects synvisc into the knee. Is a gel that helps with lubrication so the stuff there can get better.  I am all lined up for that too. They will be setting me up with p/t too. Grrr. I hate that part.

I am soo happy today about all this tho.  What a relief to have my patches back again.  They did work well. I came home so happy today.

Also the weather was nice. Dry air cooler and breezy. Wonderful. Felt like October.

I had to walk quite a ways too.  Well I got my exercise in today.  Ouch 1 step my knee hurt other step my back hurted ahahaa.a

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Glad your ins. is covering those again! You must feel so much better!

[bunnytowne]

yeah that made my day I got them filled and all ready for tomorrow. HURRAH

[MimzMum]

Ah…age is just the gift that keeps on giving, right, BT? ~_~ My mum sends me greeting cards that say “Old age is not for sissies!” I can totally relate to your back and knee issues, even though I’m pretty sure I’m a few years your senior. And my hubby has terrible back probs. Years ago he was going to try for surgery with that Norian stuff, the bone glue? Turned out he never had it ask the glue not only solidified bone but would spread to neighboring soft tissue at petrify it! It was like looking into the face of the Medusa!
To get his back repaired, they’d have to chip off chunks of his hip bones and fuse them to the break at his pelvic area and completely solidify the spine at that junction. If it didn’t work, he’d be worse off than he is now, and if they tried and didn’t chip right, he’d be paralyzed. So there wasn’t much choice in the matter.
Me, my back is just wearing out. And my knees are following suit. My doctor gives me meds for it and they work okay, but I wish I didn’t have to take them!
Hope you feel better! (((((((((hugs)))))))

[bunnytowne]

Oh my that sounds crazy that back surgery.  We have a very famous Dr. here. Thats why he doens’t like to admit his surgeries don’t work too well.  However he does do all the new stuff like disc replacement.

He takes bone from a bone bank so no one has to have the other cut on their hip. Just 1 cut on the back. HE put a cage in during the first surgery. I had the screws taken out and the other level fused.  I should have left those screws in. The space where the cage is shrunk.  HE did use bone paste and mixed up with bone to fuse at both levels. I have screws and pins at the 2nd surgery site. It has fused good.

They take 2 huge tubes of blood to get the platelets out and mix with the bone and make bone paste. HElps fusing time. Healing from back surgery tho takes long long time. Years.

I was doing yoga and it did help I loved it can’t no more  no bending twisting etc. darn. no more riding horses boogey boarding walking long distances sitting long time.  All no nos since surgery. I dont’ dare do the sports I loved to do.

OH he had a segment on the news there of the disc replacement. is a ball held in place by attachments to the bones and a metal piece.  The news showed a lady after 3 weeks of surgery bending and pushing her child on teh swing.   Ahaaa. Yeah right. you can’t squat at all or bend for several months after surgery.   I laughed and thought yeah right wait til those good pain pills wear off ahahahaa. She msut have been getting some real real good ones to do that.  Or her surgery was really several months back instead of 3 weeks.

I laughed at that with my pain management Dr.  She didn’t agree.  Well of course not she works with that DR’s group. They won’t say it doesn’t work like that.

always do  your research b4 surgery. Check out several websites not just 1.  You learn more that way and can make a more informed decision.

[bunnytowne]

Thanks Mims mum  my friend here says every year the birthday fairy comes and takes away something with her majic wand.  Your heart back knee neck  hearing sight. and what not.  That darn bday fairy someone should get rid of her.

I used to be the only 1 in my family not to wear glasses.  Yeah right til 2 months ago I noticed I can’t read little print anymore. Now I got reading glasses at the store. They help.   That darn fairy.

[MimzMum]

*urp* Oooo…a little too much 411 for me! >.< Ugh, I can't believe I used to want to be a doctor when I was little. I would've dropped dead by now from the fear of seeing blood!
Yes, they told my hubby he’d be in bed for a year at least. He is not the kind to sit for five minutes, has all the patience of a boiling tea kettle. So he wasn’t up for that. Stone knives and bear skins surgery. Meatball surgery. That’s how he thinks of it. Hammer and chisel stuff. Yuck! I take my hat off to you for coming through it all as well as you have, BT, that takes some serious moxie!

I can remember how my chemo nurse was urging me to have a catheter port inserted into my chest for my treatments. I got all quesy just thinking about it. They were going to run a tube straight into my aorta, the main heart artery. But if I hadn’t gone that route, I would’ve had to let them needle my arm every week. Ouch! >.< I stil get queasy thinking of that stupid portacath, but I'm so glad I had it done.

I’m looking forward to when we have Star Trek type medicine. Just put you on a table and tip you back and all the stats show up on the computer screen. Invisible lasers treat every disease and broken bone. Shots that don’t poke! Aaahhh! That will be awesomesauce! ^_^

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