Big walking in the park.
Choosing clothes for a big day out.
Emails etc.
Peter Robertson at Mercy Specialist Centre.
Study group, criminal law and fiduciary duty.
Business meeting #1.
The political economy of trade in services.
Business meeting #2.
Helping Sophie with her cake and cleaning.
Helping Alex with his exam result thinking.
Now.
That was a plenty varied day, so far.
Peter Robertson, conservative surgeon that he is (judging from 4 separate reports) suggests the best way forward is
- a discectomy (removing disc bulge and tidy)
- + laminectomy (tidy up of messy spinal bits)
- + L4/L5 fusion (bone graft, screws, plates etc).
Which means about a week in hospital, followed by about a year's recovery. A (silly) alternative is to split into 2 lots, 2 procedures first and fusion after.
Maybe November? If ACC approval is straight-forward.
I had already (a few weeks ago) decided that if ... then.
If ...
... there was something that could be done (following the amitriptylene, spinal injections, physio, and time that have seen nothing other than more-or-less continuous pain, ever-reducing movement and severe deterioriation of the injured area)
then ...
... I would give it a go.
Suddenly I feel much better, it hardly even hurts any more.
Lois -- These are BIG decisions you are having to make, on top of some major work for your degree -- not to mention all the other things you are having to process (and will be for a very long time). Just to let you know, I also went to Peter Robertson about a back problem (far less significant than yours is) many years ago. I found him careful and respectful. I didn't need surgery, thankfully, and it has since righted itself. I also have another friend on whom he's operated with good results. Kia kaha! D.
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