A bit of this, a bit of that.

Its been almost a week now since I had the surgery.

The wound on my neck is healing much better than I thought it would considering the problems I had with my previous surgery. Basically, the previous incision opened up 3 times, and had to be restitched. During this time, the wound became infected, and greatly delayed the healing process.

My voice is still pretty husky, but is starting to come back a little. Occasionally, i get a deep ...

Well, finally the day came, and I went into hospital on Monday 13th at 7.15am.

Got changed into the Hospitals standard Operating gown, complete with Paper Underwear ( very sexy ).

Around 9.15, I was finally ushered of to the Operating theatres Holding room.

The best news I was given, was that the surgeon would not be using a bone graft from my hip to use as a replacement of the disk for fusion. When I had my last double fusion, I remember the hip being the ...

I thought it might be interesting, and of some use to anyone else who may have to go through this procedure, to have a journal of my experience with the operation.

This will be my third fusion, having already had disks C4 - C5 and C5 - C6 already fused.




At the time of the last surgery, I simply reached over to turn the alarm clock off, and slipped two disks. Since then, following surgery, ...

Been awhile, so time I did an update :)

Having seen the surgeon, and had a "wasted" second nerve conduction test, to rule out any problems with right Ulnar neuropathy, It has Finally been confirmed that I have Multi Level compressive cervical radiculopathy.

In simple terms, I need more spine surgery and need another vertabrae to be removed and fused.

The surgeon went into great detail about the possible complications, some of which I experianced ...

After what seemed like an eternity, I finally had my appointment to see the surgeon about issues Im having with my Neck.

He had my MRI scan reports and confirmed to me that there are three further areas of my neck that have gotten worse. Basically, the canals from which nerves emerge from the spine, have narrowed significantly, and as such, the nerves get pushed against the spinal cord. This in turn is what causes me the severe pain i experiance.

He did mention that the ...