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[RC] [Guest] neck surgery - Ridecamp Guestimgroanup@xxxxxxxxx Iam an RN work every day with spinal cord patients and this "radial" neck surgery is done everyday. There are two choices of donor fusions. One is from the patient's hip site where bone is take and used to stabilize the disc or the second is from a cadavor. With the cadavor the patient only has one "surgical" site and does not have the pain of donor site to complain about. This type of surgery not very complicated and most ortho/neuro surgeons do them. Recovery is 3-4 months. Not a pleasant time of life. Both my husband and I had them. ------------------------------------------------------------ From: Bob & Amber Roberts Subject: [RC] Horrible accidents After reading this below, I am wondering if anyone knows how Ed is doing. If I recall, he is Teddy, Running Bear's, significant other and had a horrible horse accident some time ago. Does anyone have an update on his condition? Amber Today's the first day really out of bed. I can barely be up for longer than an hour at a time.=A0 Saturday before last, my horse slipped on a very slippery slope, I jumped off, tripped on a manzanita branch after my feet were on the ground, fell over the edge of a very rocking slope, broke my neck, cracked my head a few times along with various other cuts and contusions, got air lifted to a hospital in Bakersfield where there's this doctor that does this radical new surgery where they fuse the vertebra using neck bones of a cadaver.=A0 They say it cuts down the recovery time from 6 months to 6 weeks.=A0 I'm taking off the neck brace today.=A0 We're hoping for no nerve damage. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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