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Got my results from my MRI today, I now have more herniated discs than most hall of fame QB’s. I have some fun new conditions to add to the list too, things like paracentral protrusions, facet hypertrophy, schmorl nodes, and bilateral neural foraminal narrowing. Herniations at L1-2 & L3-4 L5 & S1, its starting to sound like a bingo game. L1 once again that is L1…”BINGO” I scream outloud, “what do I win?” A degenerative and arthritic condition for the rest of your life. “Oh that pretty much sucks.”
Me: So how do we treat this?
Doc: Surgery
Me: Six seperate fusions?
Doc: Yes.
Me: That seems pretty evasive.
Doc: It is.
Me: Bone graphs as well.
Doc: Yes, from your hip.
Me: Sounds fun.
Doc: It is exactly the opposite of fun.
Me: I was practicing sarcasm.
Doc: Sorry what did you say? I was too busy thinking about the boat Im going to buy with the cost of your surgery.
Me: I said, any non surgical methods?
Doc: None that I would recommend.
Me: How many surgeries have you performed that had this many fusions?
Doc: None but dont worry there will be three sugeons there.
Me: They need new boats as well?
6 vertebrae? Sorry to hear that. This has to limit how you’ll live your life…what’s the optimal prognosis following surgery?
6 vertebrae? Sorry to hear that. This has to limit how you’ll live your life…what’s the optimal prognosis following surgery?
Optimal result would be they are able to repair the discs but nothing can take away the arthritic condition. Pain is something you learn to deal with, its the back spasms that make it debilitating.
Seems like 10 years since that first one hit me when leaving that movie in Burlington. I remember you telling how afraid you were thinking that you might have to carry me out of there.