@qualitygal Well....let me see where do I start to answer your post.
OK, so by 2003 my back got so bad I had to go to an orthopedic surgeon. It was at that time when I was told "there's no operation that can fix your problem".
I started typing this long post about my back...all of the problems going back to when I fractured 3 vertebras when I was 18 (car accident) one of many serious one's.
The short answer is everything shows up under MRI's and an operation of any kind will NOT fix the pain. It's a matter of how much pain I can endure during the course of a day. It's like that now.
Where I broke it is where the spine curves. I didn't just break it, I shattered part of the vertebra....
This new problem isn't related to the already problems (which was very bad to start with).
This had nothing to do with my knees. I fell backward into (literally INTO) my steps that goes from the foyer to the upper level (split foyer).
I thought the pain I lived with everyday was bad, but shattering the vertebra is a pain unlike what most people experience.
Hummm...not to brag (but I lived with this broken vertebra on my own for 2 weeks). As I said it was the height of the virus...they were saying don't go into the emergency room unless is is life or death (something like that).
I kept telling my daughter in Denver not to come (I wasn't ready to give up my independence). She got on the next flight out and was here for 1 month. Then she flew back to bring her dog here. She drove here with her dog and boyfriend 5 days later. She stayed here until a few days ago. The Drs are going to do the second series in the shots and then (once again because it's been done before) they will burn the nerves from my spine (simple way of saying it).
My daughter will fly back for that and stay at least a week or more.
My girls have totally reorganized my life and home. I wasn't happy at first but now I see how nice it is.
This fracture is at the L1, bruising the L2 and 3. The Dr had to go into my back, break off what had started healing and break off enough that they could send in a piece to check for bone cancer and fill the bone with cement. They used a large and small MALLOT and CHISEL. Yep, as bad as it sounds.
The knees are great, no problem. I'd advise anyone to get them both done at same time (like I did). Compared to the pain I'd been enduring with my back it was like a paper cut (not much to it).
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