UPDATE: Steve "surgery" St.Laurent....

[MMeier]

Glad to hear it, keep us updated Rob!!!! Mark

 

[Jengle]

Great news. Hang in there, Steve. You'll be back at us in no time.

 

[fmj]

This is great news. See Steve there was nothing to fret about .

Anyway, I'm glad it went well and will see ya in chat. Oo.

 

[GIT-R-DONE]

Steve, Now listen to the Doctors as the recovery is a long time... ..... So dont push it... ..... glad all is well and thank you Rob for the update. Oo. Oo. Oo.



Don

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Just got home guys. Hard to believe the surgery was a little over 24 hours ago! Things went great! The pain, numbness, & lack of control in my left upper back, shoulder, arm & hand was 100% gone the second I woke up. My neck is a bit sore - gee imagine that - not bad though. I'm 1000% better than I was before the surgery. Both of the surgeons I saw ended up doing the surgery - my main surgen and the guy I went to for the 2nd opinion. So I had two orthopedic surgeons that have done 100's of these working on me. They are very happy how everything went. Now the wait is to see if the fusion takes - 9 out of 10 take. Will have a follow up in a couple weeks. Thanks for all the well wishes. Just thought I'd pop in real quick and give ya'll an update.



-Steve

 

[MMeier]

Way cool , glad to hear it, catch you soon!!

 

[Sled Puller]

The Gimps back!

 

[Fireman Dave]

Great to hear, Steve!!Oo. Oo.

 

[rbattelle]

 

[Hammer]

Steve...

Glad to hear your slice-n-dice went well and your feeling better. Hope your recovery goes well.



Take your time coming back now as Robin said all is well. I know Gene has not plotted to drive you anymore insane than i will and I promise we are not up to anything in your absence either :-laf :-laf :-laf . It seems like the chat freaks are being well mannered to,whats up with that... ... ... . Andy

 

[Rob Thomas]

Originally posted by Hammer

. It seems like the chat freaks are being well mannered to,whats up with that... ... ... . Andy

Hmmm... ... ... Andy, have you been into chat lately? There's a whole new batch of freaks in there now!

 

[lil red cummins]

hey steve



glad to hear you are feeling better, please be careful on the ice if you go outside!!



my thoughts and prayers are with you.



jim

 

[apkole]

Sooo, Steve, does this put you back in shape for bouncing around the dunes at Silver Lake next summer? Glad to see you are on the mend.



Andy

 

[klenger]

Steve, shut down the computer, go back to bed. We haven't burned the place down yet (although I had to warn a few folks on the 3rd gen forum who were getting dangerously close to starting an API oil war).

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Update: Had a follow up with my surgeon today. My weight restriction is now up to 50 lbs (was 25), I can start exercising (finally - am WAY out of shape), and I can ride my bike again! I went for a 130 mile ride today and had a BLAST! It isn't fully fused yet but everything is in it's proper place, etc. I have another follow up in 10 weeks and then another in 6 months. Things are going great, my neck gets sore at times but it's a muscle soreness because of loss of strength. Now that I can start exercising some that should get better. This has all been well worth it - although it has been a LOOOOONG road. Just thought I'd drop an update.

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Allmost ZX-10 staus eh steve?

 

[GFritsch]

Ride on! What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Originally posted by ToolManTimTaylor

Allmost ZX-10 staus eh steve?

I don't think so Tim. :-laf

 

[GFritsch]

So, why were you in the hospital?

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Long story! The short version is I had to have a disc removed between the C6 & C7 vertabrae in my neck and have them fused. For the long version and all the garbage I went through here's the threads on it :--)



Ugly trip to the orthopedic surgeon today - going under the knife again



Surgery postponed



I swear these doctors are trying to kill me!



Surgery 8:00 am Friday morning - will be out of touch for a few days