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Old 10-08-2009, 03:54 AM
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Excellent point!! Maybe it was only partial. I'll email the asst doc and see what she says. I've bombarded her with emails lately so I'll wait a while before asking. Hey mark, maybe you can ask dr b for me the next time you run into him. Dr b knows I share everything with you, maybe you'll understand what they did to me better than I can. You're good at translating these medical terms into English for us. : )

The paperwork says c5 c6 corpectomy with iliac bone graft harvest and vectra cervical plate from c4-c7.

A partial corpectemy would make sense cause I swear I heard dr b tell me that the good news was that there was no corpectomy done and that I got a 3 level fusion.
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9/20/10 - I think I jinxed myself. As soon as I told dr b and dr Sullivan I was doing well (on 6/1/10) I tanked and have experienced the return of pain. My neuro says the new pain is at t4.

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Old 10-08-2009, 05:44 PM
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Hey Steve,

Way to go. Glad you're feeling so good. It's been a long time coming.

A 70+ friend broke her arm in 7 places. She wasn't healing well until using the bone stimulator. Then she kept on getting infections and had to wear an intravenous anti-biotic machine for 24/7 until she starting sitting in the sun for 10-15 minutes daily. Just a thought.

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Steve,

Glad to here your still doing well. Stay positive and do the right things so you heal properly.
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