Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Pictures of my old and new spine

Below are pictures of my incision, x-rays, etc. Just to give an idea of what to expect if considering a fusion. After seeing how many and how large the screws are, my pain makes a lot more sense.If you look at the post after this I have pictures of what my back looked like before corrective surgery.



An incision photo. Dr. Moreno personally stitched my tattoo so I don't have to have it re-done.

Back Before Surgery
Another scar photo. Notice how much straighter my hips, shoulders, and shoulder blades are.

This is a photo of my new spine plus instrumentation. I have 26 screws and two 14 inch rods holding it together plus my own bone marrow and some from a cadaver fuzing it together.

This is a side view of the screws going through my spine holding the rods and my new improved spine in place.
An up close picture of the screws, ouch!

This is an xray from 11/2/2011 of my Scoliotic Spine pre-op.
Another xray before surgery. My ribs were twisting out of place dangerously and my lumbar spine was twisting inward which is very dangerous. That is why some of the screws go straight back, some sideways, etc.

4 comments:

  1. My niece (13) had her surgery today. I found your blog while searching for info. Your pictures and positive attitude, make be feel a lot better about her prognosis. Thanks for sharing and hope you have recovered fully. Conway in Grant, Fl

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  2. Hello, I too a scoliosis survivor I had my first surgery when I was 16 (1983 ), my whole back I got a upside down T scar . Pins and rods are in my back, on 2003 one of my rod broke in two places, I needed surgery to have my rods removed and my spinal complete fused . I still experienced bad back pain, leg pains, my spinal no longer bends . And curves stops because spine is fuse . I do have a long scar don't look bad, but the two side are ugly.

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