Just back on deck after a few days away, will spend the next few days on/off catching up on netmail, echomail etc. :)

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Hello Avon!

On 05 Jan 2020, Avon said the following...

Just back on deck after a few days away, will spend the next few days on/off catching up on netmail, echomail etc. :)

Welcome back! :)

Best regards
Zip

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On 05 Jan 2020 at 09:05a, Zip pondered and said...

Welcome back! :)

Thanks I like the new coat of paint... it feels rather retro :)

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Avon wrote to All <=-

Howdy - I'm back after a long absence as well. :-)

Just back on deck after a few days away, will spend the next few days on/off catching up on netmail, echomail etc. :)

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On 09 Feb 2020 at 09:06a, Jimmy Anderson pondered and said...

Avon wrote to All <=-

Howdy - I'm back after a long absence as well. :-)

welcome back :) Nice to see you here again.
Hope all is well with you and yours :)

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Avon wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

On 09 Feb 2020 at 09:06a, Jimmy Anderson pondered and said...

Avon wrote to All <=-

Howdy - I'm back after a long absence as well. :-)

welcome back :) Nice to see you here again.
Hope all is well with you and yours :)

Thank you! Wife having some medical issues, but otherwise
okay... Two grandkids now. :-)




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On 12 Feb 2020 at 11:08p, Jimmy Anderson pondered and said...

Thank you! Wife having some medical issues, but otherwise
okay... Two grandkids now. :-)

Golly. Congrats on the kids but commiserations on her health issues..

I'm buggered I just spent all day outside in the garden. Filling a big metal skip up with green waste.

Just sat down.... a coke and bourbon beckon...

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Avon wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

On 12 Feb 2020 at 11:08p, Jimmy Anderson pondered and said...

Thank you! Wife having some medical issues, but otherwise
okay... Two grandkids now. :-)

Golly. Congrats on the kids but commiserations on her health issues..

Thanks. There are several things going on, actually, but right now her
shoulder pain is the worst part. She had surgery a few years ago but was 'under' for 4-1/2 hours - she said she won't be doing that again anytime
soon!

I'm buggered I just spent all day outside in the garden. Filling a big metal skip up with green waste.

Just sat down.... a coke and bourbon beckon...

Just got in from 'rastlin' in Ripley, TN - another little town a half
hour away. I've been enjoying the resurgence of NWA and their studio
show Powerrr. One of their regulars was 'in town' so we went to see
him - great show!



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On 15 Feb 2020 at 12:04a, Jimmy Anderson pondered and said...

Thanks. There are several things going on, actually, but right now her shoulder pain is the worst part. She had surgery a few years ago but was 'under' for 4-1/2 hours - she said she won't be doing that again anytime soon!

Bugger, yeah my wife has had a spinal fusion where some discs in her back got fused and was also under for several hours when that was done. I think over time it gets worse again but I don't expect she would do it again either.

Just got in from 'rastlin' in Ripley, TN - another little town a half
hour away. I've been enjoying the resurgence of NWA and their studio
show Powerrr. One of their regulars was 'in town' so we went to see
him - great show!

Just looked it up, sounds like you had fun :)

My coke and some BBQ steak went well too.

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Bugger, yeah my wife has had a spinal fusion where some discs in her back got fused and was also under for several hours when that was done.
I think over time it gets worse again but I don't expect she would
do it again either.

That's the boat I'm in. I didn't get a very good run out of it though. And yes its meant to drift off again after a period of time, because for better or worse whatever movement the you had in the now fused joint has to be made up by
the next one. Also when one is far enough gone the state of the others ins't usually that good either, so they'll continue to degenerate.

I was surprised when I saw th first x-rays of my back, it seemed to look a bit like a bad jigsaw, or even more accurately a stack blocks stacked precariously by a small child, one here one there, just enough to maintain balance. When I inquired whether the fusion would help them, the answer was probably not... but
you can't fuse them all or you wouldn't be able to move either...

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I'm buggered I just spent all day outside in the garden. Filling a big metal skip up with green waste.

That's funny that is also what I did half the day doing also!

Just sat down.... a coke and bourbon beckon...

Ah a man after my own heart...


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On 15 Feb 2020 at 05:14p, Havok pondered and said...

I'm buggered I just spent all day outside in the garden. Filling a bi metal skip up with green waste.

That's funny that is also what I did half the day doing also!

well it's nice to know somewhere else on the globe there's someone else doing the same hard graft that I have been doing :)

Just sat down.... a coke and bourbon beckon...

Ah a man after my own heart...

If we ever meet I know what we'll be drinking that day :)

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Spectre wrote to Avon <=-

I was surprised when I saw th first x-rays of my back, it seemed to
look a bit like a bad jigsaw, or even more accurately a stack blocks stacked precariously by a small child, one here one there, just enough
to maintain balance. When I inquired whether the fusion would help
them, the answer was probably not... but
you can't fuse them all or you wouldn't be able to move either...

My son's back is fused. Beanzilla. About 5 years ago now. He had about
180 degrees of curve to his spine. They were able to remove about 30
degrees with traction. First surgery was about 11 hours or so.

Next morning, surgeon met me in the lobby of the hospital. The muscles
overtop the spine had pressed down touching the spine, and he had lost
all feeling/movement from the waist down. More hours of surgery, and
feeling was back. Surgeon described it as a spinal stroke.

Then began physical therapy for him to relearn how to walk again.
(Well, they thought he was going to be in a wheelchair from here on out.)
But, from struggles to walk 5 steps, to walker, to quad-cane, to cane.
And now, he walks mostly fine. Well, as fine as one can with your spine
fused. ;) Your spine rotates slightly when you walk, but his can't.

Oh yeah, the jigsaw part! The surgeon tried to make a 3d model of
Beanzilla's spine. The model was so fragile that it broke. Yikes!

Kyphoscoliosis. :O

Take care,
bugz

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Bugz wrote to Spectre <=-

Spectre wrote to Avon <=-

I was surprised when I saw th first x-rays of my back, it seemed to
look a bit like a bad jigsaw, or even more accurately a stack blocks stacked precariously by a small child, one here one there, just enough
to maintain balance. When I inquired whether the fusion would help
them, the answer was probably not... but
you can't fuse them all or you wouldn't be able to move either...

My son's back is fused. Beanzilla. About 5 years ago now. He had
about 180 degrees of curve to his spine. They were able to remove
about 30 degrees with traction. First surgery was about 11 hours or
so.

Yeah, around 7th grade, and all of 8th out of school for all this adventure.

Next morning, surgeon met me in the lobby of the hospital. The muscles overtop the spine had pressed down touching the spine, and he had lost
all feeling/movement from the waist down. More hours of surgery, and feeling was back. Surgeon described it as a spinal stroke.

It was cool them sticking a special needle hooked up to a machine then sticking that into my leg, and hearing what sounds like static but actually is my nervous
system sending electrical signals, all that just to check the extent of the lost
feeling/movement. (By the way, you have a needle in your leg, so activate that
muscle... ouch)

Then began physical therapy for him to relearn how to walk again.

Yeah relearning how to walk was very tough... but if you can pull through it, why let the minor stuff slow you down.

(Well, they thought he was going to be in a wheelchair from here on
out.) But, from struggles to walk 5 steps, to walker, to quad-cane, to cane. And now, he walks mostly fine. Well, as fine as one can with
your spine fused. ;) Your spine rotates slightly when you walk, but
his can't.

The following I can not ever do:
Jumping,
Parachuting,
Rotate my upper torso,
Skiiing.

Course I never really want to go jumping out of a airplane at any height. :)

Oh yeah, the jigsaw part! The surgeon tried to make a 3d model of Beanzilla's spine. The model was so fragile that it broke. Yikes!

Kyphoscoliosis. :O

Kyphosis, The spine makes a S shape.
Scoliosis, The spine makes a C shape.

Combined to have a spine doing both S and C shapes. (btw, I am not into medical
stuff... so why do I know all this... oh been here too long)

Take care,
bugz

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Take care,
Beanzilla

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Beanzilla wrote to Bugz <=-

Kyphoscoliosis. :O

Kyphosis, The spine makes a S shape.
Scoliosis, The spine makes a C shape.

I don't think that explanation is right.

I'll just link to the wikipedia article that explains it better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyphoscoliosis

And wow, the photo there reminds me of your younger photos before
traction at Shriner's hospital.

Take care,
bugz


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Avon wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Just got in from 'rastlin' in Ripley, TN - another little town a half
hour away. I've been enjoying the resurgence of NWA and their studio
show Powerrr. One of their regulars was 'in town' so we went to see
him - great show!

Just looked it up, sounds like you had fun :)

My coke and some BBQ steak went well too.

LOL - sounds good! And yeah, had a LOT of fun. :-)




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