surgery date

[jennylynch]

I am scheduled for decompression surgery next Wednesday the 16th.. I really this man and trust him fully. I am ready for this surgery and I am hoping to be this confident next week. please help me  try to relax is there any thing i can do.. They gave me percocet for the pain til then. im a wreck...

[jennylynch]

me too.. hoping they either rule out or jsut diagnose the tethered cord too. he said from his mri it looks bad for me though and its going to be a serious case as with my Chiari i have almost total blockage and its pooling around the C1 and that is making the pressure worse.. so wondering does that make it a syrnix?

[pamk5]

Wishing you all the best!  I pray that you have a smooth surgery and a uncomplicated recovery.  

Pam

[Roy902]

I wish you the best of luck and a speedy recovery, you will always be in my thoughts.

Roy

[jennylynch]

dr. chakravarthi in bay city michigan..

Thank you so much.. i am so happy to be having the surgery and getting someone on the first try that knew more then i did when i walked in. i guess 25 years of brain and spinal surgery was good for him to learn.. he said doing chiari patients are his favorite cases because he knows he is giving them relief from what seems to be years of pain and suffering for most...

[selmaS]

  That is wonderful Jenny...do post on the surgery thread!!
  May I ask who ur NS is?....

  Read some of the journals of the members that have had surgery...it may help u relax....to be scare, and nervous is normal.....I know I was.

  Hang in there : )

  "selma"

[jennylynch]

Oh and i will be doing another mri to confirm tethered cord syndrome. he believes it is there from the mri's i already have but wants another mri to just make sure.. Finally Answers!!