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ACDF Surgery

opendebate said:
So it sounds like you've been through this a lot. Sorry to hear about all that misery. It's awful, isn't it. There are much worse things though, my nephew got brain cancer and fought it for 5 miserable years. He is recovered now, miraculously. So I never feel too bad about what I've got going on.

Thanks for the well wishes. It is sincerely appreciated.
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That is a MIRACLE. Your nephew's recovery I mean.

I hope you have someone to help you at home. One of my Cat Ladies stayed for 3 days and fed me (and the cats who love her anyway). You'll need someone to stay with you, not just drop by. This is imperative. Also, I suggest you request serious pain meds. Sure, detox sucks but without them, I would have shot myself. While I waited fot my surgery, almost a month, I took 60 mg. of oxycodone a day. Afterwards, within a week, I cut back every day over a months time. That's what they are for and they work. Don't suffer needlessly. If you don't ask (demand), you don't get.
 
specklebang said:
That is a MIRACLE. Your nephew's recovery I mean.

I hope you have someone to help you at home. One of my Cat Ladies stayed for 3 days and fed me (and the cats who love her anyway). You'll need someone to stay with you, not just drop by. This is imperative. Also, I suggest you request serious pain meds. Sure, detox sucks but without them, I would have shot myself. While I waited fot my surgery, almost a month, I took 60 mg. of oxycodone a day. Afterwards, within a week, I cut back every day over a months time. That's what they are for and they work. Don't suffer needlessly. If you don't ask (demand), you don't get.
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My boyfriend is going to take tomorrow off from work (the surgery is scheduled for 11:30) They said I will probably be able to go home Saturday and he will off work both those days. Hopefully by Monday I'll be okay alone. Based on your experience does that sound too soon?
 
opendebate said:
My boyfriend is going to take tomorrow off from work (the surgery is scheduled for 11:30) They said I will probably be able to go home Saturday and he will off work both those days. Hopefully by Monday I'll be okay alone. Based on your experience does that sound too soon?
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It sounds a little soon but (hopefully) a neck surgery will be less disabling than lower back. Still...you might want to set up a backup plan for assistance. But I'll be surprised if you're cooking by day 3 unless they give you serious pain meds - and while it works - its distracting. So, yeah, a backup plan for a few more days as needed.
 
opendebate said:
Yeah, they can be really painful especially when they start affecting nerves, which is my situation. I go in tomorrow and I'ma big scaredy cat. I'll let you know how things turn out. If you don't hear back from me.....you'll know why.
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If that happens, I get 10 uninterrupted minutes with your corpse in a windowless locked room.
 
sawyerloggingon said:
Anyone notice that MS Debate has not returned since she started this thread? I bet she is either dead or on a heart lung machine paralyzed from the hairline down. Poor girl.
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Oh, aren't you comical. :roll:

She's probably resting up so she'll have the strength to put up with online douchebags.
 
TheGirlNextDoor said:
Oh, aren't you comical. :roll:

She's probably resting up so she'll have the strength to put up with online douchebags.
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I actually like her and wish her the best. She rides bicycles too so I have a kinship with her even if she is a road biker. REAL bike riders ride mountain bikes.
 
opendebate said:
So this feels a little weird to post this thread but I'm getting surgery on Dec 6th and I'm freaked out. I hate going under anesthesia because I'm certain I'll never wake up.

I'm getting ACDF surgery. It's for a herniated disc in my neck. It's pinching my spinal cord and the nerve roots at C5-7. Apparently, they go in through the front of your neck, scoop out the messed up disc, insert a piece of bone they've taken from your hip and put steel plate over the front of it. I'll have to wear a hard neck brace for 6 weeks.

The procedure doesn't scare me I'm just so certain the doctor will pass out or hiccup or something and sever my spinal cord or there'll be some other freak accident that leaves me paralyzed or the anesthesiologist will screw up and I'll drift quietly off into oblivion.

Oh, well, if you never hear from me again at least you'll know why.

Has anyone here had this done?
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For us ordinary citizens that don't know....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior_cervical_discectomy_and_fusion
 
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