Got my MRI report today

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Hi, all.

I called the local hospital again today regarding picking up the

radiologist's report for the MRI I had in December for Dr. Rand. I wanted

to find out if it would require less walking if I went in through the back

door. To my surprise the woman who answered the phone was the mother of my

" semi-adopted kid " , a 16-year-old neighbor who volunteers with me at the

local animal shelter, etc. She kindly offered to get me the whole CD of the

MRI and radiologist's report, and to bring it home to me when she got off

work. Yay! no walking.

So......., I've read the report, and there was a surprise there. I

apparently do have a tethered spinal cord, but it's also split

(diastematomyelia) at the T9 level, something I didn't expect. At first I

was very pleased to finally have the information about what's going on

inside me. Then it occured to me that that T9 split could be really tough

to get at. Of course it's within my fusion, so I suspect it would be tough

to access it by a posterior approach, and he might not like the additional

complication of accessing it anteriorly. When I saw him he talked rather

positively about de-tethering surgery, but he might not have thought it

likely that it would be tethered as high as T9

The radiologist also found some narrowing of the spinal canal at L2-L3.

There could be other spina bifida-related anomalies, but the rod obscured

anything additional.

I plan to call Dr. Rand's office tomorrow, but I'm getting a little worried.

It's been more than 4 weeks since he received the films, and I'm starting to

wonder if... No, I don't want to think it.

I'll let you all know how that phone call goes.

Sharon