If your bone quality is compromised, or if the long fusion puts too much load on what it's attached to, won't making the fusion longer, give you even higher risk of it happening again? (because the fusion is longer, more load is transmitted to adjacent segment and lowest hardware?
Is there any way you could get a motion preserving device below the fusion? Might be tough to consider because of the fracture is where you'd need to put a device.
I'm so sorry that you are facing more surgery.... seems like you can't catch a break.
All the best,
Mark
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