I again had revision surgery on the spinal cord stimulator. Even after the second revision the pain coverage was less than 5%. During the trial my coverage was easily over 85%. The difference this time is they were putting in more robust leads, but also more difficult. My surgery ran long because they had to cut out excessive scar tissue.
Waking up I could feel the additional coverage, but I still won't get reprogrammed for optimization until next week.
The morning after the surgery things went somewhat south. I have never had an UTI before, but things were certainly different. We eventually determined that a foley catheter was the cause of problems.
By Thursday evening my breathing became labored and my exhales were audible. They thought I was having an allergic reaction to the anesthesia.
Friday morning the problems had increased and I went to the doctor. Xrays came back clean. The lab was unable to successfully draw blood. Our choices were ER on a Friday night or blood draw on Saturday.
After the Saturday blood draw my breathing had again gotten worse. The surgeon agreed we should go to the ER. Nearly a dozen hours later they found pneumonia on a CT scan with contrast not visible on Xrays. They gave me oral medications and we went home.
Monday things had only gotten worst and we went to a different ER. They confirmed the pneumonia via CT scan and put me on IV antibiotics. Later they added small dose steroids to combat lung inflammation.
They are expecting my lungs to be pneumonia free by Thursday. Having some more scans on Friday hoping to verify.
The stress caused the worst ms hugs that I ever experienced. It's not fun just being out of surgery with back incisions, ms hugs in the front and pneumonia rocking the lungs.
I'm just glad to be back on the mend and should be ready to push back against MS very soon.
Waking up I could feel the additional coverage, but I still won't get reprogrammed for optimization until next week.
The morning after the surgery things went somewhat south. I have never had an UTI before, but things were certainly different. We eventually determined that a foley catheter was the cause of problems.
By Thursday evening my breathing became labored and my exhales were audible. They thought I was having an allergic reaction to the anesthesia.
Friday morning the problems had increased and I went to the doctor. Xrays came back clean. The lab was unable to successfully draw blood. Our choices were ER on a Friday night or blood draw on Saturday.
After the Saturday blood draw my breathing had again gotten worse. The surgeon agreed we should go to the ER. Nearly a dozen hours later they found pneumonia on a CT scan with contrast not visible on Xrays. They gave me oral medications and we went home.
Monday things had only gotten worst and we went to a different ER. They confirmed the pneumonia via CT scan and put me on IV antibiotics. Later they added small dose steroids to combat lung inflammation.
They are expecting my lungs to be pneumonia free by Thursday. Having some more scans on Friday hoping to verify.
The stress caused the worst ms hugs that I ever experienced. It's not fun just being out of surgery with back incisions, ms hugs in the front and pneumonia rocking the lungs.
I'm just glad to be back on the mend and should be ready to push back against MS very soon.
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