I mean, I would call whoever it is and try to get a payoff amount less than what you still owe. it’s been so long and you’ve been making some kind of payments since, so they’ll probably take it. you won’t just suddenly not owe them the rest.
when my paycheck was $300 short, and on my paystub it just said “creditor garnishment”…. I had to call our corporate HR out of state to find the attorneys handling the case (still had no clue why this was happening)…. they were also able to tell me the total amount of the garnishment so I had some idea of how long this was going to happen for, whatever it was.
i just shared my lack of pooping TMI on another post 😂 that struggle was reeeeal. i was 30 when i had my C4-7 fusion, and my recovery was harder than most of what i hear. i spent months on a couch. so i think this is all wonderful to hear!
Early middle aged gentlemen here (41m) a little over four weeks out from the same surgery, and it sounds like our experiences are pretty much exactly the same, so I think you're doing great! It's perfectly normal for the recovery not to be linear, but the general trend for me has been positive! My pain has shifted the same way, into my neck and shoulders. Sneezing was scary for the first few weeks, but now it's ok. It took me four days to poop, but it wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. Good luck with everything!!!
i’m getting close to 40 and the idea that i could call this an “early” mid-life crisis sounds like i could have a mid-life AND late mid-life crisis now too! 😂 it sounds like sarcasm, but i’m actually excited about it.
I’m not sure what kind of fusion you had, but I stayed in the hospital a week on a dilaudid drip my pain was so bad. I had ACDF c4-7. I was back in the ER a week after getting home in excruciating pain, like blinding pain, bc it turned out I was quite literally full of shit. so morphine drip and enema that time. 🥴
so the TMI for that one. lol painkillers back me up TERRIBLY. I had less than two weeks notice for the surgery, I can’t even be sure I went #2 during that time. nothing the week I was in the hospital, or the week I was out. when I tell you I was in blinding pain out of nowhere, I literally thought i was dying and super okay with it. 😳 I can laugh about it now but. lol I was AGGRESSIVELY. dry heaving. I couldn’t stop. my entire body was in excruciating pain. the worst pain i’ve ever been in, in my life.
do you have any friends you could stay with instead of your car? maybe tell them you’ll pay them (an amount I’m sure is less than $1500) to crash on their couch for a month or two?
in my experience… absolutely nothing happened and those on the receiving end.. ended up quitting. the most that happened, was a documented conversation with the leaders involved. they got moved to a different dept, not demoted.
I think you just focus on the revision, and maybe in an appt with the new doc ask them if they think it’s worth informing the original surgeon. If they think it’s worthwhile, I would just send a message via my online patient portal to someone on the surgeon’s team/the surgeon vs making an appt to do so.
target “deals” and manufacturer coupons aren’t the same, so technically the e-mail is correct if that’s how it was worded. it’s still definitely going to be misleading for a lot of people.
unless it just got sent with the rest of the salvage… that sounds more likely than goodwill selling a shopping basket someone stole, and then donated for them to sell.
I would definitely give your doc a call, or go online to your patient portal situation if you have one.. and try to send someone a message since it’s been so long?
😂 i lol’d. i had C4-7 and it took me two weeks, a morphine drip, and ER-administered enema to even 💩. so, personally… this couldn’t have been farther from my mind at this time.
yep all at once! at the very least, thinking about this again… I had to be in a neck brace of some kind for 2-3 months? i’d personally be scared of another surgery if i had to have one as soon as you have! I would ask your doc, PT, nurse, whoever for clarification on the paperwork they gave you if it were me!
you can cheat to say you’re picking 120 uph, but someone with half a brain would still be able to tell that if you worked the same 8 hour shift as someone else who is picking 75uph and still managed to pick 500… you probably should’ve picked more than 250.
lol I would assume if we were talking lose weight we meant cigarettes (but they did say nicotine). either way is a solid no, if that’s the only reason you’d start.
I think I would ask the doc who wants to go anterior and posterior if it’s because you’d end up needing both ways eventually anyway. that would be my deciding factor. If the anterior approach meant more surgery was more likely eventually, increased the odds at all, no thank you.
hi you sound like me! literal surprise hell for about a year and a half. just prednisone thrown at me, everyone thought I had RA or lupus. but I didn’t. round we go. i got a new allergist. I’m nervous to say I’m also entirely effing normal again 🎉 so here’s what worked for me in case anything is helpful for you!
I would listen to them. by the time I ended up with a c4-7 fusion in less than two weeks… I sounded like you. and the next symptoms I had came on fast and were scary. I couldn’t walk in a straight line to save my life, I looked blackout drunk. my hands would just stop working all together.. I’d go to grab something and just paw at it. i’d drop stuff. my knees would give out on stairs.
Rounding out my 1 year c5-c6, and I had to use that same neck-brace. Let me tell you this, I loved it! It’s really comfortable. Just make sure you really get it fitted to your specifications and know how to adjust it. I’ve adjusted it myself a lot during my recovery and made it 1000x better. You seem/look young so bouncing back from this will be nice and smooth, in the end just want to say you got this! Sending only positive vibes to you!
And you would 100% feel this in your throat - all they have to do is go back in, remove the plate and decorticate c3 … your fusion mass seems solid so that plate is superfluous. Under a 1 hour surgery for a skilled neuro or ortho
i feel lucky in that backwards way. i was worried about this happening and my surgeon just said “you’re getting it, they’re covering it, the end.” my cord was flattened and bruised, i had about a week and a half notice for it. it just blows my mind you’d have to be so close to being irreparably paralyzed for them to not give you any trouble, otherwise i’m not sure what else my surgeon could’ve said. i was still shocked there was no push back from my insurance. i’m so sorry you’re dealing with that.
i was curious if this just meant shipt for the same day delivery. the whole “in as little as an hour!” bit makes me laugh because at least for instacart that means “in as little as an hour if you tip enough to make it worth someone’s time!”
I've been through 3 rounds of PT in the past 3 years. Ranging anywhere from 3-6 months. It's temporary relief. My issue is not movement or tight muscles. My issue is that I am hypermobile and have neck instability. My neck actually moves TOO MUCH. It's worse with the artificial disc. I never had this problem 10 years ago. Thanks for the suggestions though.
I think I would get another opinion from another surgeon.. it seems weird to me that they would opt for the artificial disc knowing you’re hypermobile? Otherwise, my surgeon told me at some point in my life my entire neck would be fused. I’m just C4-7 now. When my pain is the worst it’s nerve or related to my posture. It could just be with natural degenerative changes to your spine and being hypermobile… it’s time for another fusion?
😩 congratulations. i finally gave up on the sonic when i got gas one day, and suddenly it wouldn’t start unless i floored the gas pedal. “it’s the fuel pump, but you might as well get a new engine” 🤗 so i got a Toyota. lol
I mean, I would call whoever it is and try to get a payoff amount less than what you still owe. it’s been so long and you’ve been making some kind of payments since, so they’ll probably take it. you won’t just suddenly not owe them the rest.
how did you find out?
when my paycheck was $300 short, and on my paystub it just said “creditor garnishment”…. I had to call our corporate HR out of state to find the attorneys handling the case (still had no clue why this was happening)…. they were also able to tell me the total amount of the garnishment so I had some idea of how long this was going to happen for, whatever it was.
i just shared my lack of pooping TMI on another post 😂 that struggle was reeeeal. i was 30 when i had my C4-7 fusion, and my recovery was harder than most of what i hear. i spent months on a couch. so i think this is all wonderful to hear!
Early middle aged gentlemen here (41m) a little over four weeks out from the same surgery, and it sounds like our experiences are pretty much exactly the same, so I think you're doing great! It's perfectly normal for the recovery not to be linear, but the general trend for me has been positive! My pain has shifted the same way, into my neck and shoulders. Sneezing was scary for the first few weeks, but now it's ok. It took me four days to poop, but it wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. Good luck with everything!!!
i’m getting close to 40 and the idea that i could call this an “early” mid-life crisis sounds like i could have a mid-life AND late mid-life crisis now too! 😂 it sounds like sarcasm, but i’m actually excited about it.
I’m not sure what kind of fusion you had, but I stayed in the hospital a week on a dilaudid drip my pain was so bad. I had ACDF c4-7. I was back in the ER a week after getting home in excruciating pain, like blinding pain, bc it turned out I was quite literally full of shit. so morphine drip and enema that time. 🥴
Thanks for your response. I also have someone handling my meds for me. They put me on a stool softener but its been 3 days and I havent gone yet
so the TMI for that one. lol painkillers back me up TERRIBLY. I had less than two weeks notice for the surgery, I can’t even be sure I went #2 during that time. nothing the week I was in the hospital, or the week I was out. when I tell you I was in blinding pain out of nowhere, I literally thought i was dying and super okay with it. 😳 I can laugh about it now but. lol I was AGGRESSIVELY. dry heaving. I couldn’t stop. my entire body was in excruciating pain. the worst pain i’ve ever been in, in my life.
do you have any friends you could stay with instead of your car? maybe tell them you’ll pay them (an amount I’m sure is less than $1500) to crash on their couch for a month or two?
in my experience… absolutely nothing happened and those on the receiving end.. ended up quitting. the most that happened, was a documented conversation with the leaders involved. they got moved to a different dept, not demoted.
like others said… this ain’t the place that can do anything about that complaint but empathize with your venting.
I just don’t know how I justify paying for and explaining why I am going to see him other than to say I’m not going with you for my revision.
I think you just focus on the revision, and maybe in an appt with the new doc ask them if they think it’s worth informing the original surgeon. If they think it’s worthwhile, I would just send a message via my online patient portal to someone on the surgeon’s team/the surgeon vs making an appt to do so.
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target “deals” and manufacturer coupons aren’t the same, so technically the e-mail is correct if that’s how it was worded. it’s still definitely going to be misleading for a lot of people.
What's that crime for selling stollen goods for called again?
unless it just got sent with the rest of the salvage… that sounds more likely than goodwill selling a shopping basket someone stole, and then donated for them to sell.
I would definitely give your doc a call, or go online to your patient portal situation if you have one.. and try to send someone a message since it’s been so long?
😂 i lol’d. i had C4-7 and it took me two weeks, a morphine drip, and ER-administered enema to even 💩. so, personally… this couldn’t have been farther from my mind at this time.
Did you have all three done at once? I had c4-5 done 2.5 years ago. ..I probably should have mentioned that in original post.
yep all at once! at the very least, thinking about this again… I had to be in a neck brace of some kind for 2-3 months? i’d personally be scared of another surgery if i had to have one as soon as you have! I would ask your doc, PT, nurse, whoever for clarification on the paperwork they gave you if it were me!
you can cheat to say you’re picking 120 uph, but someone with half a brain would still be able to tell that if you worked the same 8 hour shift as someone else who is picking 75uph and still managed to pick 500… you probably should’ve picked more than 250.
I can see my review in workday but I haven’t actually had one yet.
Ur comparing weed to coke Are you special?
lol I would assume if we were talking lose weight we meant cigarettes (but they did say nicotine). either way is a solid no, if that’s the only reason you’d start.
I think I would ask the doc who wants to go anterior and posterior if it’s because you’d end up needing both ways eventually anyway. that would be my deciding factor. If the anterior approach meant more surgery was more likely eventually, increased the odds at all, no thank you.
Predinose, Xolair - was getting one shot in each arm every two weeks, Doxepin, Allegra, Singular, Pepcid.
hi you sound like me! literal surprise hell for about a year and a half. just prednisone thrown at me, everyone thought I had RA or lupus. but I didn’t. round we go. i got a new allergist. I’m nervous to say I’m also entirely effing normal again 🎉 so here’s what worked for me in case anything is helpful for you!
I would listen to them. by the time I ended up with a c4-7 fusion in less than two weeks… I sounded like you. and the next symptoms I had came on fast and were scary. I couldn’t walk in a straight line to save my life, I looked blackout drunk. my hands would just stop working all together.. I’d go to grab something and just paw at it. i’d drop stuff. my knees would give out on stairs.
Rounding out my 1 year c5-c6, and I had to use that same neck-brace. Let me tell you this, I loved it! It’s really comfortable. Just make sure you really get it fitted to your specifications and know how to adjust it. I’ve adjusted it myself a lot during my recovery and made it 1000x better. You seem/look young so bouncing back from this will be nice and smooth, in the end just want to say you got this! Sending only positive vibes to you!
I loathed the neck brace at first, but by the time I was supposed to switch to the soft collar…. I wanted to keep wearing it. 😂
i work at target and the good and gather brand chicken also comes in Tyson boxes. so there’s that.
Nestle the candy/chocolate company owns Purina cat food? TIL.
It’s not the only example either! Mars, the candy/chocolate bar company, owns a lot of veterinary clinics chains such as Banfield and BluePearl.
lol i was just commenting this. down the rabbit hole when it comes to the pet category for sure.
And you would 100% feel this in your throat - all they have to do is go back in, remove the plate and decorticate c3 … your fusion mass seems solid so that plate is superfluous. Under a 1 hour surgery for a skilled neuro or ortho
i had an MRI say a screw was “proud to the plate” and i thought i was crazy for thinking i could feel something in my throat. 🤢 lol nooo.
i feel lucky in that backwards way. i was worried about this happening and my surgeon just said “you’re getting it, they’re covering it, the end.” my cord was flattened and bruised, i had about a week and a half notice for it. it just blows my mind you’d have to be so close to being irreparably paralyzed for them to not give you any trouble, otherwise i’m not sure what else my surgeon could’ve said. i was still shocked there was no push back from my insurance. i’m so sorry you’re dealing with that.
We donate for free in the UK!
i’d never donate plasma for free in the US just because treatments they use it for can be so expensive and not always covered by insurance. $10-40k.
i was curious if this just meant shipt for the same day delivery. the whole “in as little as an hour!” bit makes me laugh because at least for instacart that means “in as little as an hour if you tip enough to make it worth someone’s time!”
I've been through 3 rounds of PT in the past 3 years. Ranging anywhere from 3-6 months. It's temporary relief. My issue is not movement or tight muscles. My issue is that I am hypermobile and have neck instability. My neck actually moves TOO MUCH. It's worse with the artificial disc. I never had this problem 10 years ago. Thanks for the suggestions though.
I think I would get another opinion from another surgeon.. it seems weird to me that they would opt for the artificial disc knowing you’re hypermobile? Otherwise, my surgeon told me at some point in my life my entire neck would be fused. I’m just C4-7 now. When my pain is the worst it’s nerve or related to my posture. It could just be with natural degenerative changes to your spine and being hypermobile… it’s time for another fusion?
I sold the dang lemon.. Was sick of it. I no more worries about the shop again
😩 congratulations. i finally gave up on the sonic when i got gas one day, and suddenly it wouldn’t start unless i floored the gas pedal. “it’s the fuel pump, but you might as well get a new engine” 🤗 so i got a Toyota. lol