C3-4, C5-6, C6-7, T1-2 ProDisc-C Nova ADR blog

[Terry Allen Blackburn]

WOW Quick surgeries for the both of you. This is great and I hope you both are fixed better than Humpety Dumpety.

Please keep us posted.

Terry Newton

[mmglobal]

Things seem to be getting much worse very fast. I'm still functional, but upright time is limited and gets more and more painful through the day.

Note that leg numbness is not thought to be lumbar related as a few people have thought. It does not follow a lumbar dermatome and is much too broadly dispursed, entire leg and large patches of numbness on L upper body.

Whatever you do to muster the good karma... pray, meditate, commune with nature, or as Dr. Zeeers just said, "I'll turn on the candles for you." Please do it. Gil and Paulette, ski a run for me! Dieter, do a skydive for me! Doreen, take a hike... no don't take a hike... take a hike for me!

Mark

[phylly]

I am very sorry to hear that you are getting worse so fast. E-hugs and E-wishes are coming your way. When do you leave? You will be in good hands for the surgery and hopefully as good as new soon. Rest as much as you can!
Phylly

[fuzzy]

Nwthat was indeed fast!

I wish you the very best. Knowing how excellent these healthcare professionals are I know you are in the best of hands and I almost wish I could have gone with you.

[Maria]

Mark,
When I read about your c spine and I remember back when you started to mention some symptoms tho not necessarily pain it makes me wonder about waiting until there are full blown pain and other symptoms re not just cspine but l spine.

The only thing I can do is what you've asked re good vibes, good thoughts, prayers, mantra, chants.. the whole bit for the best possible surgical results and recovery.

As mentioned above by Fuzzy it's great than you can be in the best of surgical hands. That has to be an enormous comfort.

Will you be the man/person with the most ADRs to date?

[ImpOssibleOne]

By all accounts you're in the best of hands and you're being attended to quickly. Sounds good.

I'll be rooting for you and I wish you a the most boring recovery ever logged onto this forum.

Good Luck
Adrienne

[mmglobal]

Booking tickets less than a week out was exciting. When I started looking, flights that left too late on Sunday were $600, but flights I could use were $1600. I poked around and kept checking. I finally found flights that left early enough on priceline for $600.

I've never used cheapoair.com, but a client told me she found dirt, dirt cheap for May.

Mark

[rosedee]

Mark,

Really sorry to read your news. I am (and will be) thinking of you and wishing you and your surgeon a successful op and as painless and smooth a recovery as possible.

All good wishes,
rosedee

[JeffreyD]

Mark,
I am praying for you, and will continue to do so.

Please keep in touch. Pauline and I care very much for you.

-Jeff

[mmglobal]

I felt pretty good yesterday and started to have the "do I really need to do this" thoughts. Thankfully, I feel pretty bad now! The questions are gone.

This is harder than I thought. I posted about Diane's poignant moments with Zoey the night before we left for her surgery here: Diane's surgery blog. I'm feeling that way too... I don't know what the future brings and feel kind of like I'm saying good-bye to everyone.

I got to see a local doc under my new HMO on Thursday and he agreed to do my follow-up. I have no idea what the insurance ramifications are. I have no out of network coverage and hope that follow-up won't be a problem. I tried to reach my GP and let him know what was going on, but never heard back from him. (Although he's been great at getting the things I needed done!)

Gotta run... Zoey's 2nd b-day party starting now. More later,

Mark