RE: Body position surgery

[Guest guest]

Yes, Steve, I meant to ask you this...

Explain this to me again please...how can they do this surgery on me in any

other way than flat on my back??

Bri

Body position surgery

Hi,

Was reading this thread:

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>One week from today at this very hour I will be lying flat on my back,

Nope. You will be bound to the table, but you will be in an almost

standing position. But, you won't know that.

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Is this particular to a specific surgeon or they all do it this way? I

have Rabkin in SF.

One of my biggest concerns about surgery is lying flat. If I lay flat on

my back more than a few minutes my lower back gets really twisted

up. Apparently I have extra meat in the upper part of my behind and back,

and I'm high waisted, so there is a LOT of pressure on the small of my back

and it really hurts -- I have thrown my back out for days in just a few

minutes of this!! I fear being flat that long might actually damage my

already-messed up lower back vertebrae.

But when i read that they actually may stand you up a little, I was

actually happy to hear it -- but is this standard? Again, I have Rabkin....

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[Guest guest]

At 8:13 PM -0400 9/20/01, E. Nahodil wrote:

>Yes, Steve, I meant to ask you this...

>

>Explain this to me again please...how can they do this surgery on me in any

>other way than flat on my back??

>

>Bri

I have no idea. But, that is what they told me before they wheeled

me in. I was asking about being sure to put pillows under my knee

creases to relieve pressure on my back, and they told me that they

would be placing all kinds of pillowstuff around me, because I would

be tilted upwards. That's all I know. --Steve

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