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[sprinklethief]

i think the disk that was herniated in my neck finally tore and blew out. i awoke this morning screaming in pain, like literally, and sobbing. after about an hour of trying to sit up, joey brought me in a vicodin (i threw away all my percocet from the spine fusion cuz i wanted to be off drugs) which barely helped. the doc called in tylenol 3 because i didn't have time to go pick up a script for percocet, so here i am.

something tells me surgery is in my very near future. so not happy about going under the knife again, but i hear cervical spine has a shorter recovery time than lumbar.

why can't i ever get a break!??

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[ciani.livejournal.com]

can you go to cleveland clinic? my surgeon is seriously awesome. His name is Samuel Borsellino and he's out of Lakewood hospital.

[paroxysm-cycle.livejournal.com]

yeah i can, actually. is he neuro or ortho? i'm gonna need neuro because of the spinal cord involvement (BAD stenosis). did you actually get the surgery done in lakewood? lakewood is the only place besides NYC that ever felt like home to me so i could totally see being laid up there a few days :)

[ciani.livejournal.com]

he's neuro. I wasn't going to let an ortho mess with my spinal column! YIKES I did get the surgery done in Lakewood, and it really was as good as I could have expected. Everyone was very nice and attentive. They took the time to calm me down because I was scared (never had GA before), and they were more than willing to give me the morphine I needed to be comfy. They're rebuilding the ortho wing right now so if you were to do it soon you'd most likely be admitted to a different floor, but I could totally come and visit you. It's like.. a block away? from where I live! His office is in that building right next to Lakewood Hospital too so he's close. He also prefers doing surgery in Lakewood, but I know he also does it at Lutheran and maybe one more CC hospital.

[ciani.livejournal.com]

He doesn't mince words either. When I went to see him our first appointment was about an hour and a half long. He went over my films and then talked to me in depth about my history and symptoms. When we talked about the surgery he was upfront about what he was confident it would fix and what he wasn't sure about. In the end when I asked him point blank what he would recommend he told me, but up until I asked that question he gave me all my options and as much info as he could on each of them including how well he thought they would help.