Re: Need Medical Translation

"Lesley" <LMadigan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 8 Dec, 05:32, William Hamblen <wrhamb...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Most mammals, cats - humans - giraffes, have seven neck bones.

7 cervical vertebrae is one of the definitions of a mammal
although manatees and some sloths only have 6 and one variety of sloth
only has 3

CatNipped do not let your friend scare you (okay I understand the
thought of surgery- any surgery is scary enough). What all the fancy
jargon means (as so many here have already explained) is that some
bone has overgrown and is impeding the space where the nerve leaves
the spinal column. It is routine for orthopaedic spinal surgeons to do
this procedure (neurosurgeons don't really deal with bones) and should
(no guarantees but should) improve things a lot. I worked gfor 3.5
years in an orthopaedic hospital and I don't remember any major
complications following the procedure and we used to do it quite a lot
as we had a two spinal specialists

I don't know any neuro-surgeons, but I know these ortho guys - they did the
bone reconstruction surgery on my shoulder. I think this kind of surgery
has become pretty routine, and with the laser and robotics they have now I
hope it's pretty fool proof. I'm am going to just flat-out as the doctor
Monday if he thinks I should see a neuro-surgeon - I trust these guys enough
that I think he'll give me an honest answer.

Hugs,

CatNipped


Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs


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