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Well, I just had a conversation with my parents about my back. We're going in for a doctor's appointment on Thursday (which means I miss the first half of school, meh) to basically decide whether or not to start looking into surgery. To make a long story short, both my parents and my physical therapist think there's a 99% chance of me having surgery.
This is mainly because my back has not even begun healing, and it's been four months since I've been in Bob, my lovely little back brace. Four months, as it turns out, is the average time it takes to completely heal. So, clearly I'm not getting any better. Also, I'm not supposed to be walking around with two fractures in my back, because there's a possibility of the spine slipping. If the spine slips, then it pushes into my nerves, and I could potentially become paralyzed.
So, my dad told me not to count on doing gymnastics until at least this time next year, which totally and completely sucks. Furthermore, if I do need surgery, then my mom's hoping to confirm it or even schedule it by Christmas, which would totally get me in the holiday mood. Not.
The surgery itself isn't complicated (at least, I don't think)--the affected area is below my spinal chord, which means that there's hardly any risk of something going wrong and me not being able to walk again. However, apparently the recovery time is long, and I could be laid up for several weeks, if not months.
All of this isn't definite, however--it's simply what my parents and physical therapist have told me is likely to happen, given the fact that I'm not healing.
*le sigh* I suppose it could be worse.
This is mainly because my back has not even begun healing, and it's been four months since I've been in Bob, my lovely little back brace. Four months, as it turns out, is the average time it takes to completely heal. So, clearly I'm not getting any better. Also, I'm not supposed to be walking around with two fractures in my back, because there's a possibility of the spine slipping. If the spine slips, then it pushes into my nerves, and I could potentially become paralyzed.
So, my dad told me not to count on doing gymnastics until at least this time next year, which totally and completely sucks. Furthermore, if I do need surgery, then my mom's hoping to confirm it or even schedule it by Christmas, which would totally get me in the holiday mood. Not.
The surgery itself isn't complicated (at least, I don't think)--the affected area is below my spinal chord, which means that there's hardly any risk of something going wrong and me not being able to walk again. However, apparently the recovery time is long, and I could be laid up for several weeks, if not months.
All of this isn't definite, however--it's simply what my parents and physical therapist have told me is likely to happen, given the fact that I'm not healing.
*le sigh* I suppose it could be worse.
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I'm glad to hear there is hopefully little risk involved, that's relieving.
As far as doing it over Xmas, that bites, but I suppose then it won't screw up school too badly - except for the whole lengthy recovery time. I remember my mom making me get all my wisdom teeth pulled at once over an xmas break one year. Right after xmas, I still looked like a freakish chipmunk face after New Years when I went back to school.
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And thanks! I'm definitely relieved that there's not a lot of risk--I can't imagine not being able to walk. =/
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*offers karl urban in compensation*
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*gleefully accepts
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I just had to respond to this because I had something similar happen to me. To make a long story short, I love to run and have been on my high school's track and cross country teams since freshman year. Last January when I was running down a hill during practice, I took a nasty fall and really screwed up my knee, basically dislocating it. The doctors said that surgery was inevitable, but I still tried physical therapy for couple months to see if that would get my knee back in place. However, physical therapy didn't really help and I had to get surgery done, which my parents scheduled for the first week of my summer vacation! I had one of the worst summers of my life because I had to have a brace on my leg for two months that prevented me from bending my knee. This meant that I couldn't walk well at all, and not being able to walk well kind of limits the things you can do on summer break. Now it's been about four months since my surgery and my knee has healed enough to allow me to walk and go up and down stairs normally, but my knee is still not strong enough to run on, meaning that track and cross country this year is out of the picture. It really hurts me to see the cross country team practing at school, because I would give anything to be running right now.
I do feel sorry if you ultimately have to have surgery that prevents you from doing somthing you love--gymnastics--for a LONG time. It sucks that things like this have to happen and you can sometimes wish "Why couldn't my pinky have been screwed up instead?!?" I want to wish my best of luck that you get through everything okay, because even if you get a bit depressed you CAN live through it, just don't let the surgery take over you mind.
Again, I hope that you don't feel annoyed/offended/anything negative by me posting this (or that I didn't ramble on), but I hope that your possible surgery works out for you.
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I'm really sorry to hear about your surgery! I hope there were no complications, and that your knee doesn't hurt anymore. It must be awful, though, to see the team practicing--at least my team isn't affiliated with the school, so I only hear about what's going on through some people I talk with online.
Do you have any idea when you'll be able to run again? Or does "this year" mean all the way until the next school year?