Surgery on friday 29th!! NEW UPDATE : #64 !!!

[Randi]

I hope the surgery went well for you both and you will be painfree after.

Now, rest up and get better!

[krazyaboutkatz]

Lut, I'm glad to hear that your neurostimulator is now working. I hope you'll continue to be pain free now. Take care. (((HUGS)))

[phesina]

SUCCESS!!!!! THAT'S SUCH WONDERFUL NEWS!

Lut, we wish you the greatest happiness in your new pain-free life.

Love, hugs, and purrs,
Pat and cats

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

Extra update

The pain in my leg is GONE GONE GONE !!! Halleluja!!
Of course not all my heath problems are gone; but I am OH SO HAPPY !!

Thank you to everyone who prayed for me! You ROCK !!

[anna_66]

That' awesome to hear Lut! I'm so happy!!!

[chocolatepuppy]

I'm so happy for you Lut!

[Daisy and Delilah]

Lut, I'm so glad all went well for you. You deserve to be pain free and feeling great.

Thank you to everbody for all the well wishes and prayers. Once again, the power of PT prayer is amazing!!!! My surgery went well. Yesterday morning I was told that I have NO infection at all in my knee and the best news of all........he had a cancellation for tomorrow morning to put my new knee in!!! YAY!!!! Thanks for all the PT prayers!!!!!!!!

I came home last night for one day(my insurance wouldn't pay for me to stay there for no reason). I was thrilled to see my girls. They were happy to see me too. Their nursing skills are great!! I'll be going back tomorrow morning for another 3 or 4 days and I don't know how much time I can spend at the computer. Right now, I just have a spacer in there and no knee at all. It's not too safe for me to do anything.

I just wanted to update and thank everybody. I agree with Lut-----PT ROCKS!!!!
I'll update when I can. I'm gonna miss my girls again but they are in good hands with family and friends.

[Medusa]

I'm so happy for you! You sound so good and to have your furkids as nursemaids is just the best. Add PT prayers to the mix and ya can't lose.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Gret, great, great, great, great news!

[Catty1]

Great news all around!

Of course, you had the best care:

[lizbud]

Great news all around!

Of course, you had the best care:

I can see you both are in good hands with great Doctors like that.

[cyber-sibes]

Yippee! Now you can get back into the swing of things & enjoy life again! I'm very happy for you, Lut.

Daisy & Delila's mommy, that's great news, too. How long till they can put a new knee in?

[Sonia59]

Great, great news! I think you will enjoy the coming spring very much

[Logan]

Rachel (bless her heart) reminded me this morning that you had this procedure. I had completely forgotten.
Are you still happy and comfortable? Anything about it that you wish were different?
Is the stimulator implanted in your hip with the leads elsewhere?
How long did they make you be inactive after the actual surgery? Do you remember? Seems like I read 2 weeks for the permanent surgery and my doctor's office told me 2 days with the trial. That is a lot of time off of work, but so worth it. I've had every kind of injection (epidurals and facet) and none gave me even a minute's relief.
I am going through the trial for the SCS for 4 days beginning August 4. Mine will be directed at my upper back/neck, where I have so much pain, even after having disk replacement surgery on two disks last year. I am excited, but don't want to get too excited until we see if it works. If it does, then I will go through with the surgery as soon as it can be scheduled with my neurosurgeon. My pain management doctor is doing the trial run and will perform the procedure in his office. My doctors do not believe in treating my pain with heavy narcotics because I have arthritis and it will only get worse over the years and the pain meds will lose their effectiveness.

I would love to hear your thoughts about this since I am facing it in a little over a week. You can read about mine at www.controlyourpain.com .

Logan

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

I would love to hear your thoughts about this since I am facing it in a little over a week. You can read about mine at www.controlmypain.com .

Logan

Aw Logan, I wish you ALL the best with your operation!!! I wish the same fantastic result as I have gotten!!
Yes, I am still oh so happy with the result! My life is so much more comfortable!! My stimulator is on my hip, on the left of the backsite. It never annoys me at all! It is connected with electrodes, which are situated behind the bone marrow all the way at the height of my lowest backrib.Is this translated well??? So your stimulator will treat your neckpain? Mine is treating the pain of damaged nerves I got because of a hernia between disc L5-S1.

I don't know what you mean with your question about being inactive after surgery... . I was in the hospital during 2 days, and I was able to do a little homework after a few days. It took me a while though to get my strenght back, because I had been inactive for such a long time..........

You say that you have got all possitive injections, both facet and epidural. Same thing with me!! It almost nEVER gave me relief too! I was pretty desperate at that time, and so unhappy.
But, since the succesful placement of that neurostimulator, My life is back on tracks!!! No more nerve-pain there, strenght in muscles is back, and I was able to get rid of nearly 20kg, a weight I had put on because I had to take so much strong meds years ago!!

Dear Logan, I wish you ALL the best!! I will pray that it will all go as good as for me! I know, the first round went wrong for me, but second time it was perfect!! I will be thinking of you sweety!!!

ps.you may always pm or e-mail me if you need more information!! I can give you my mobile # too if you want!!