In early 2007 my wife was in a auto accident. The young 19 yr old was on a cell phone and ran a redlight. She caused two t-bone type crashs and sent 3 people to the hospital. My wife was injured the most severely but the other car also had people hurt really bad. She has had knee surgery, shoulder surgery, 5 epidurals, 2 yrs phy therapy, accupuncture for back pain, and on and on.
Her lower back was the most troublesome and has required her to be on morphine for way too long to control the pain.
My wife finally underwent two level spinal fusion in late September.
I am happy to report that she is doing so much better now. She is not pain free but is getting stronger everyday. One of the biggest hurtals is the incision pain as they went through the stomach for the surgery.
I must admit this whole situation over the last 3 years has affected us emotionally , physically , and mentally. Our normal lives have been completely disrupted. She lost her job because she could not return to work and they fired her.
If you ever have anyone go through this make sure they have a neurosurgeon do the surgery.
We had two orthopedics consulted but there was definately a big differance easily recognized in how they talked to us and what needed to be done.
Discogram - 7 K
2 MRI - 3 K
For 4 days in the hospital the cost was 110 K
For the surgeon and vascular surgeon it was 25 K
The anesthesologist stuff was another 3 k
This is all being paid for out of the the future settlement. Hard to imagine having to come up with that if you didnt have insurance.
Even with insurance thats a tough nut to swallow.
We are all one step away from financial catastrophy in this crazy world.
I thank God everyday that she is on the road to recovery. It is 4-6 weeks to recover from the initial surgery and then 3-6 months to find out if the fusion heals properly.
We had alot of family and friends praying hard and I honestly think that it helped us get through this.
Her lower back was the most troublesome and has required her to be on morphine for way too long to control the pain.
My wife finally underwent two level spinal fusion in late September.
I am happy to report that she is doing so much better now. She is not pain free but is getting stronger everyday. One of the biggest hurtals is the incision pain as they went through the stomach for the surgery.
I must admit this whole situation over the last 3 years has affected us emotionally , physically , and mentally. Our normal lives have been completely disrupted. She lost her job because she could not return to work and they fired her.
If you ever have anyone go through this make sure they have a neurosurgeon do the surgery.
We had two orthopedics consulted but there was definately a big differance easily recognized in how they talked to us and what needed to be done.
Discogram - 7 K
2 MRI - 3 K
For 4 days in the hospital the cost was 110 K
For the surgeon and vascular surgeon it was 25 K
The anesthesologist stuff was another 3 k
This is all being paid for out of the the future settlement. Hard to imagine having to come up with that if you didnt have insurance.
Even with insurance thats a tough nut to swallow.
We are all one step away from financial catastrophy in this crazy world.
I thank God everyday that she is on the road to recovery. It is 4-6 weeks to recover from the initial surgery and then 3-6 months to find out if the fusion heals properly.
We had alot of family and friends praying hard and I honestly think that it helped us get through this.
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