Charles Robinson wrote: >He's been out of the O/R for about 18 hours now. > >C5 vertebra was removed and replaced with a titanium cage. > >Front of C4-C6 were fused, then they flipped him over and fused C3-C6 as well. > >Today he's up and about. Sitting, walking, eating normal food. He's off the >I/V fluids and just taking some wonderfully powerful painkillers for a while. > >That's a hell of a bullet he dodged. By all rights he should be a >quadriplegic and perhaps on a ventilator - if not dead. > >If anyone cares to read more: >http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/caseyrobinson/mystory
Wow, that's scary as hell! Even living with a physician who's involved in some pretty cutting-edge stuff I'm constantly amazed about what medical technology (and highly trained doctors) can do these days. Glad to hear he's doing so well. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
