Guess You Could Call This "Reloading"

[Pirate69]

Got Home from the hospital Friday after spine surgery last Monday. Had a five-hour procedure. Had two rods, eight screws and four spacers installed between four vertebrae. Hope this helps my 74-year-old bones.

 

[bulletpruf]

More of a rebuild than a reload. Did you get new rings and bearings while they were in there? Balanced and blueprinted?

 

[Hipshoot]

New screen name----BIONICPIRATE69 !

Mend Well!

 

[SSL]

But is your headspace consistent???

 

[Pirate69]

The replies are a hoot!

 

[jackieschmidt]

You’re now going to have to get a waiver to get through airport security.
And if all of that hardware is all titanium, you are now worth more “scrap” than alive.

Seriously, good luck.

 

[jsn]

Are you blueprinted now?

 

[N133]

Better check to make sure they installed the proper grease nipples.

 

[joshb]

Hope you heal right up and get back to having fun!

 

[Chris Edmondson]

I had spinal stenosis surgery done a few years back , best fix ever. I wish you a fast and painless recovery.

 

[RegionRat]

Speedy Recovery!

 

[ISS]

I feel like such a piker now. Six weeks ago I had a surgical procedure to fuse C2-3-4. But I got a new toy with mine: a bone growth stimulator to wear for 9-12 months four hours a day. It looks like a horse collar with a timer on it.
The neurosurgeon (prettiest lady I've met since my lovely Christian wife 37 years ago) says if I am a good boy I can shoot a medium recoiling rifle (308 Win)about Christmas off hand to see how I am healing.

 

[R.Morehouse]

Was told Fri., from the neurosurgeon, that there is nothing they can do for my bent, arthritic, degenerating cervical spine. I have a pill that is working pretty well on the neuropathy, and they tell me there is an injection that can help......Best of luck to both of you with your recovery. I guess I am in more of a " management " situation.......I can still do what I like to do, it just sounds like popcorn going off in my head when I move my neck.....LOL

Regards
Rick

 

[NF1E]

Ya'll get better soon. At 77, I feel your pain.

 

[BHP9]

Better check to make sure they installed the proper grease nipples.

His natural nipples are now the grease nipples.

I sentiment what others have said.

Speedy recovery.

 

[old_heli_logger]

Ported and polished...
Prayers for a speedy recovery

 

[Charlie-NY]

Got Home from the hospital Friday after spine surgery last Monday. Had a five-hour procedure. Had two rods, eight screws and four spacers installed between four vertebrae. Hope this helps my 74-year-old bones.

My wife had very similar surgery. Before surgery, she could barely walk with a walker, she could not sit in a chair without significant pain and needed to recline for any relief at all. Post surgery - nearly immediate relief. Six months after surgery and you would never know that anything was wrong with her. I told her surgeon that he literally performed a miracle.

Good luck on your recovery - better days lay shortly ahead.

 

[Bill Norris]

Hurry and heal and get back to shooting.

 

[450BM]

Got Home from the hospital Friday after spine surgery last Monday. Had a five-hour procedure. Had two rods, eight screws and four spacers installed between four vertebrae. Hope this helps my 74-year-old bones.

Hope you heal well and fast Pirate! It’s your job and no one else can do it!

I have 3 vertebrae fused in my neck and fusion in my lower back scheduled for February. (Along with 2 different surgeries to fix herniated discs but they were pretty minor)

Just plain walking is what my surgeon tells me to do to strengthen my back. It’s worked for about 18 months but in my lower back it’s vertebrae on top of vertebrae with nothing between them so I’m losing the battle and won’t put the surgery off any longer. That and I still have my good insurance until I’m 65 (60 now) and my surgeon is in semi retirement mode. He’s a good friend, a devout christian and I have the faith of a child in him.

 

[D-4297]

Have had to go through two spinal surgeries ; so I feel your pain . Follow the "Quacks" instructions . Find a excellent Physical Therapist and wear your butt out in therapy . Hope things go well in the rehab .