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Best wishes Rick,
I guess I'm too young to understand things like this but I hope all turns out well, even if your blessings show up in disguise.
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Rick, I hope everything goes well. Sometimes there is no alternative to surgery. It sounds like you have reached that point. I've had back misery since I was 25. Been diagnosed with two compression fractures, atrophied discs, swollen discs, stenosis, arthritis, you name it and they said I had it. Finally my doctor forbid me to go to work and ordered me to have surgery. Said there was no choice. Waited over three months to see the surgeon. While I was off from work waiting to see him my back stopped hurting. Went back to work and worked another year; then retired six years ago. That is the best thing that has ever happened to my back. Still some pain most days but no spasms and nothing I can't live with. Sometimes I have to move around a few minutes after riding in a car or just after getting out of bed before I can stand up straight; then the stiffness goes away and I do anything and everything I want to do plus some things I would rather not do, like work for example. I am one of the lucky ones; it seems you are not but still I wish the very best for you. Good luck and God bless you.
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| yea each injury is unique to the individual what will work for one doesn't always yeild the same results for another. things floating around usualy need to be tied down.or removed when possible. when they exrayed my back they found the small hunk of srapmel in close to my Heart that has been there since the early 70s, that I had told them about it concerned them enough that they wouldn't consider putting me in a MRI. so the only thing they said they could do to get better picture of my spine was to have me drink some of the most gaudawful chalk tasting stuff that made the fracture show up well enough for them to decide not to need to cut into my back. I just got lucky was all I could figure. I have a friend who has to have his back cut open every couple of years to scrape bone spurs off of his spine they keep growing back nothing he can do about that
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| Frank, I'm with you. I don't take the pain pills unless it gets real bad. I have what is called a ring fracture of L-5 which means the upper half of the disk is broken away like a ring and is 'FLOATING" around at will. When it get in the wrong place it will drop me like a rock. The only fix is to go in and glue it and fuse the disk. He explored all opition to surgery but they all agree surgery is the best way. Humpty Dumpty
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| John that sounds very similar to what I was watching like I said it was on a Medical science channel from a Russian satelite feed this was several years ago right afte we had moved here. when we were still living in a Hotel. it was in Russian with sketcy sub titles at best and my Russian never has been all that good. When Rick started talking about fusion I remembered it as something that I would have had done when I got my compression fracture of the T12 if it had been available. I was fortunate in that it had only partially compressed the vertebea and a small piece had broke away and didn't get a disc I was just too obstanant to let them near me with a knife I had some close friends who had become addicted to the pain killers after their surguries and that weighed heavy on my not wanting surgury at any costs, because I wont hardly even take an asprin
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Rick, yep, it sucks now..but I suspect Kevin is pretty much correct. Anything of significance, happens for a reason. Seems a new path is being forced upon you by the big guy. There's a reason he's getting you off the front line. Listen closely and you will see the answer/opportunity. You know this, your a FF, and you see it eveyday (..i.e. why werent they killed in that wreck..) . Maybe it is as Safety/Training. Go with the flow, and I hope you get r all fixed. You may want to pre-order your 350wb, air-leaf and deluxe air seats, as you be wanting a real cushy ride now..lol
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Rick I hope it works out well for you. I met you and your wife at Huntsville at Michelle's and Tom George's camp.I was the one that spoke with the juke box. If you go on disability and they let you do things that will be good if operation is successful as all hope for. I have 100% disability fro Vietnam and they let me work also so it could possibly work out for you also. I live by Rod Stewards words in the song "Every Picture Tells A Story" Make the best out of the bad just laugh it up.Your wife as mine is 100% behind you and that is a big part of the battle. Good luck chocko.
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| Rick I fee lfor you budy. A friend of mine now past on had 4 verterbe fused together by the butchers of the back bone of the time 20 years ago but they didn't pay attention to or didn't have teh technology to watch the nerves back then. the last 6 years of his life he had one of those moraphine pumps implanted. they told him that was better than having to have injections or take pills all the time. what they didn't tell him was due to his daily strenious activity (he was retired officcially on 100% dissability)his body would cause the pump to pump in more and more drugs. His chosen daily activities were to go to auctions and buy up every thing he could then load it up himself and take it to sell. Also I thought several years ago they had all but eliminated the need for bone fusion when they had invented that injectable gell, the med conference touted it as being something like you would find in the X MEN movie. There was a thing on the medical Science Channel that showed a rat that had its spine crushed in several places after the injection the scans showed a rubbery like plastic totaly encompassing its spine and it was running climbing and doing all the things other rats could do this was a Russian med lab that had done this maybe it hasn't passed the US food and drug because there was no follow on treatments required. Like my wife's sisters hip replacement she had that done 4 times in 10 years the last one she told the docs to either get this one right or she ask me do the next one on his hip without anesteihia,its been 8 years now Might work for you as well tell them to get it right or you will call me to do it on their spine. but no gaurantees if you want to continue leaping out of tall building in a single bounce. Get well soon!!!!!!!!!
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| Rick, Sorry to hear its going to be that involved.Hope it goes the best it can and heals quickly.John
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