ACDF Tomorrow
Am back!!!
But certainly not to the most exciting of reasons. The reason am here is to blog my experience thru an ACDF ( Anterior Cervical Disectony & Fusion) surgery I will go thru tomorrow afternoon.
The past almost 4 months have been the most painful I have ever experienced & don't wish the same on anyone. We'll skip much of history, but I've been diagnosed with a large C6-C7 cervical disc herniation and according to multiple opinions my case falls in the 15% of herniation cases that need surgery.
The surgery itself involves an incision to the right of my Adam's apple & then removing the compromised disc, replacing the space with a cadaver bone & screwing up the 2 vertebrae with a titanium plate. Watch out Iron Man, U'll meet Titanium Man tomorrow.
Anyhow, the thing is that I've never broken a bone in my body & am going in for a spinal surgery tomorrow. Yes, there is a bit of trepidation & anxiety for the 1% off chance in any such procedure that I might not see Arjun or see Trisha grow. But am not really not too disturbed about it. It is getting the 1% attention from me too. Am going to a really good facility & a reputed surgeon, which is the max that can be controlled in this affair. Plus we've tried all kinds of conservative treatments over the last 4 months & am clear that this is the only way out of this pain & misery. So this has to happen now especially since Neha is just 6 weeks away from her due date.
I had some misconceptions about the recovery & thought I'd be back to being myself (as of Apr 2013) in a couple of weeks. But I understand now that is not going to happen.
So that is what I am blogging about, my recovery after ACDF. (More tomorrow if I am in the capacity to blog)
But certainly not to the most exciting of reasons. The reason am here is to blog my experience thru an ACDF ( Anterior Cervical Disectony & Fusion) surgery I will go thru tomorrow afternoon.
The past almost 4 months have been the most painful I have ever experienced & don't wish the same on anyone. We'll skip much of history, but I've been diagnosed with a large C6-C7 cervical disc herniation and according to multiple opinions my case falls in the 15% of herniation cases that need surgery.
The surgery itself involves an incision to the right of my Adam's apple & then removing the compromised disc, replacing the space with a cadaver bone & screwing up the 2 vertebrae with a titanium plate. Watch out Iron Man, U'll meet Titanium Man tomorrow.
Anyhow, the thing is that I've never broken a bone in my body & am going in for a spinal surgery tomorrow. Yes, there is a bit of trepidation & anxiety for the 1% off chance in any such procedure that I might not see Arjun or see Trisha grow. But am not really not too disturbed about it. It is getting the 1% attention from me too. Am going to a really good facility & a reputed surgeon, which is the max that can be controlled in this affair. Plus we've tried all kinds of conservative treatments over the last 4 months & am clear that this is the only way out of this pain & misery. So this has to happen now especially since Neha is just 6 weeks away from her due date.
I had some misconceptions about the recovery & thought I'd be back to being myself (as of Apr 2013) in a couple of weeks. But I understand now that is not going to happen.
So that is what I am blogging about, my recovery after ACDF. (More tomorrow if I am in the capacity to blog)
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