tag0620
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- Joined
- Nov 18, 2008
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- 175
- Diagnosis
- 11/2008
- Country
- US
- State
- ut
- City
- park city
We got into our orthopedic surgeon's office today...but saw his physician's assistant (also an orthopede...but working under the "big guy")
He was very confused about our predicament until he popped in the disc from our digital MRI's that we had done last week. Not knowing the disc format...they pulled up his thorasic images. While my husband was in x-ray...he called me out the nurse's station to look at the computer....I looked at the screen and said "what the hell is that?" He said "it's a herniated disc" to which I replied..."yeah..they saw that on the MRI's but said it was "unremarkable" on the reports"..he said.."that's why I like to look at the images and not just the reports....as an orthopedic dr...this is very remarkable"
He said a herniated disc in the lumbar region has lots of room and usually doesn't cause many problems...but in the thorasic area...it doesn't have much room and pushes directly against the spinal cord...and this one looks like it's doing just that.
He gave the disclaimer that he's just the PA and pushed up our appt to meet our surgeon to 3/23 (instead of 4/2)....but that from his perspective....this could be the cause of his paralysis and his neurological problems.
He has an appt to get a brace for his ankle (drop foot) on Mon...but they didn't want to fit him for an expensive one as they're hoping he's not going to need it for very long!
Could it really be THIS simple?
I sure hope so...the other specialists dismissed this all along...but it may be right back at our original back surgeon....
Keep us in your thoughts! I want to give everyone more good news if I can!
THANKS SO MUCH!
Tracy
He was very confused about our predicament until he popped in the disc from our digital MRI's that we had done last week. Not knowing the disc format...they pulled up his thorasic images. While my husband was in x-ray...he called me out the nurse's station to look at the computer....I looked at the screen and said "what the hell is that?" He said "it's a herniated disc" to which I replied..."yeah..they saw that on the MRI's but said it was "unremarkable" on the reports"..he said.."that's why I like to look at the images and not just the reports....as an orthopedic dr...this is very remarkable"
He said a herniated disc in the lumbar region has lots of room and usually doesn't cause many problems...but in the thorasic area...it doesn't have much room and pushes directly against the spinal cord...and this one looks like it's doing just that.
He gave the disclaimer that he's just the PA and pushed up our appt to meet our surgeon to 3/23 (instead of 4/2)....but that from his perspective....this could be the cause of his paralysis and his neurological problems.
He has an appt to get a brace for his ankle (drop foot) on Mon...but they didn't want to fit him for an expensive one as they're hoping he's not going to need it for very long!
Could it really be THIS simple?
I sure hope so...the other specialists dismissed this all along...but it may be right back at our original back surgeon....
Keep us in your thoughts! I want to give everyone more good news if I can!
THANKS SO MUCH!
Tracy