Post TCS/OTFT surgery how r u doing?

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please respond to the group:

I'm 3 weeks post op - and for some reason I thought I'd be feeling

better than this - maybe I've forgotten how hard the pfd and ccf

surgeries were but I thought recovery from TCS surgery would be

easier.

It's probably the fact that I had 3 operations in the past 12 months

plus another two on my neck the previous year to install and then

remove a paddle elctrode for occipital nerve stimulation for pain ...

plus my mom's in the terminal stages of bone cancer

my wound looks like it is healing nicely, no swelling, whatever fluid

was there immediately post op seems to have been reabsorbed. In a few

weeks I can start PT. I'm taking flexeril and sporadically taking

dilaudid for pain. I'm just surprised how sore my low back is -

The postop instructions from TCI say you can start back to workpsrt

time at 3 weeks post op.... I guess I had unrealistic expectations. I

mean- this was surgery on my spinal cord - I guess I thought it would

be a cinch after having 2 decompression/fusion operations one in Dec

06 and one in June 07.

thanksz for letting me vent

Sue in Raleigh