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[chickadoodles]

Second opinions is a standard. The Neurologists should not care.

Sports medicine Drs. are great! They want to get you out doing stuff again and seem very good at that.

Thanks. That's what I told dh.
Dh does not understand why this Dr. Did not suggest risk replacement. I told him not all Dr. Stay up to date on the newest techniques.
The sports clinic is in the same town as his current dr. So that's a bonus!

 

[chickadoodles]

So? When contemplating serious surgery, it's common to get a second opinion. Most doctors are not offended about a second opinion. When my mother was alive, there was a time she went to a doctor, then got a second opinion. The two were diametrically opposed. Her insurance company told her to pick another doctor, and they would bill it as another second opinion, so they could determine which way she should go5 with it.

I hope his dr. Would not be offended. But I told dh what you and Ron said last night and told him the main thing is if he can get his back fixed and not be in constant pain like his neck is that he should at least go see about it. And hopefully he'll read the information I saved for him about the procedure.

Clue how fast did your DS recover from her sugery?

 

[bruceha2000]

I'm not real knowledgeable about such things but the one person I know that had disc fusion didn't get real satisfactory results. Still in pain a lot, can't sit for very long. I would certainly spend the effort to look into disc replacement and get educated about it.

 

[chickadoodles]

I'm not real knowledgeable about such things but the one person I know that had disc fusion didn't get real satisfactory results. Still in pain a lot, can't sit for very long. I would certainly spend the effort to look into disc replacement and get educated about it.

I downloaded a couple of pages on it so Dh and I can read it together and he has to make the decision but I am trying to help him get the info he will need to make the decision.
He sounded very interested last night. We watched my SIL go through the pain and addiction that from his fusion in his back. And that is my dh's worst fear is needing and getting addicted to pain killers. He has been is a lot of pain with his legs due to the crushed disks and he refuses to take any pain meds.

 

[drumstick diva]

what a shame the pain isn't going away without medical intervention of some type.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I downloaded a couple of pages on it so Dh and I can read it together and he has to make the decision but I am trying to help him get the info he will need to make the decision.
He sounded very interested last night. We watched my SIL go through the pain and addiction that from his fusion in his back. And that is my dh's worst fear is needing and getting addicted to pain killers. He has been is a lot of pain with his legs due to the crushed disks and he refuses to take any pain meds.

talk to him about Tramadol non addictive is what I love about it can go off and on
but darn helps keeps me moving through it all there is still say level 6 pain but not 25 with it

 

[bruceha2000]

I think once the discs go it is bone on bone movement. I can't imagine that would be anything but very painful for the rest of one's life without medical intervention.

 

[chickadoodles]

Dh will take the anti-inflammatory pill. Gapettin but that's only when he can't stand it. The dr. Gave him a muscle relaxer but he won't take it either.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Dh will take the anti-inflammatory pill. Gapettin but that's only when he can't stand it. The dr. Gave him a muscle relaxer but he won't take it either.

My hubby isn't one to take pills either despite painful conditions he suffers. Migraines, bad discs, kidney stones.

 

[microchick]

Whine. As a nurse I really get sad when I read about people who live with chronic pain. Being one of the club, I can understand the adversity of taking pain meds but as a nurse, I remember being a student and being taught that the body heals better when it is not stressed by pain and with that thought in mind to take pain medications before pain takes hold as it is easier to control when it is mild than when it is an 8 on the pain scale.

Hectic day today I went out to the coop to move broody hens around. Today is day 19 for them so it was now or never. They were still playing musical nests so I felt safe....until I picked up an egg and it cheeped at me. Oh expletive deleted I cried, hurriedly put the egg with the little pip in the new nest, tossed mamma in. She settled down on the eggs once again. Hesitantly reached under hen #2 and sure enough, I got cheeped at again, and found a nice zip started. The nest is being occupied by two hens, each with their own eggs and hen #2 was just beside herself with excitement hearing that little chick peeping under her room mate. She kept trying to go over and sit on the chick...and it's mom, making those soft little clucking sounds hens make with their new chicks. I put her back on her nest twice. In the mean time, the hen with the new chick reached under her and started pecking the chick. I figured she was going after the egg shell so I took it out while she was standing and she immediately grabbed the chick by the wing and tried to pull it out of the nest. I don't know what she was trying to do but she did it twice. The second time I grabbed her and pulled her off the nest. Hen number two, clucking soothingly to the little baby, immediately left her nest to settle on the newly hatched chick. I pushed her three eggs under her, looked at the disgraced hen I was still holding and proclaimed "You are no longer broody!" and shoved her out in the run with the rest of the flock.

I just checked on baby. It's fine. Iris, the new new mamma is the picture of contentment. Sitting there softly clucking to her baby with 5 eggs under her.

This isn't the first time I've had one of these hens do that with a chick. They have some glitch in their instincts about babies and what they are. I'm just glad I was there paying attention so I could save the baby because I have no doubt that the hen would have either injured or killed it.