| [GMCnet] Update on Emery Stora's back surgery [message #274240] |
Tue, 24 March 2015 05:08  |
Kimberlea Weeks
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Registered: July 2010
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An email received from Emery Stora (GMCMI past president):
I saw the surgeon today. He has now scheduled my surgery. He said it is
going to be very complicated. He will operate on four vertebra and it will
involve removing all cartilage and the discs from all four of them then
grinding inside the vertebrae to make room for my spinal cord and then use
rods and screws to hold everything in place and pack everything with ground
up bone which will solidify and fuse everything together.
He said it will take about 12 hours of surgery. He says there is too much
risk to keep me under that long at one time so he will do the top two on
April 22 in a 4 or 5 hour surgery reaching them through an incision in my
side. Then he will do the two lower ones on May 8 in a 7 to 8 hour surgery
through my back.
He says the recovery period will be about 3-1/2 months which will be the
end of August.
So, I guess that will shoot my whole summer.
He doesn't want me to lift over 10 pounds during all that time so I'll
really be limited in what I can do.
Hopefully I'll be all recovered and able to drive to Rapid City in
September. It'll be great to be able to walk again without pain.
Sure hope the Patterson convention goes well. I'll miss everyone.
Kimberlea Weeks
VP Administration and Convention Manager
612.501.4600 | f.866.519.0047 | www.gmcmi.com
GMC Motorhomes International
1402 So. Cage Blvd | Unit 273 | Pharr | TX 78577-6288
*Mark this on your calendar today!*
GMCMI 2015 Spring Convention | Friday, March 27 to Thursday, April 2
Kemper Williams Park & Patterson Area Civic Center | Patterson, Louisiana
GMCMI 2015 Fall Convention | Friday, September 25 to Thursday, October 1
Central States Fairgrounds | Rapid City, South Dakota
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