| [GMCnet] I am Home at Last [message #282875] |
Wed, 22 July 2015 19:27  |
emerystora
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Registered: January 2004
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Well, the original one weeks stay in the hospital for my spinal fusion ended up being almost 2 weeks in the hospital followed by almost 5 weeks in rehab.
I am home but I still have loads of pain and am now taking a couple of days of physical therapy per week and lots and lots of strong medications.
I am wearing a very large back brace and cannot be out of bed without it.
My complications seem to be caused by a hairline fracture around a screw head. Apparently this is causing most of the pain and I am told it could take as much a 4 months to heal. The four fused lumbar vertebrae are supposed to take until the end of the year to fully heal.
I have appointments at my medical doctor on Friday and at my surgeon next Monday so I may learn more about my condition then.
I have been told not to lift anything heavier than 5 pounds for the next several weeks and then not over 10 pounds through perhaps the end of the year. This sure restricts doing any work on my GMC.
Since Rapid City is only 400 miles from my home, Michelle and I hope to drive our car there and stay in a motel. We already have the motel reservation. So, unless anything very negative happens we hope to see many of you at the GMCMI convention in September for the Mt. Rushmore activities.
Meanwhile I want to thank all my friends for their concern, cards , emails and prayers. I’ll be posting more on the GMCnet and I hope the narcotics that I am still taking doesn’t give me the confusion that I had encountered while at the hospital. I often wasn’t thinking clearly. Hopefully that didn’t reflect too much in the few email that I had sent.
Emery Stora
77 Kingsley
Frederick, CO
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