Microdiscectomy booked for next Tuesday - I am suitably terrified! Decision was based on the fact that MRI evidence for disc protusion is very clear and microdiscectomy helps in 84% of cases.
Hopefully it will knock one problem on the head - but I am not looking forward to the post-op recovery period here on my own; and am quite worried that I will have to go off my anti-coagulant for a few days prior to the procedure - it has always been dinned into me how important it is that I should take this.
The surgeon is a spinal surgeon from a centre of excellence so that is reassuring. I am dreading the general anaesthetic as I get dreadful giddiness afterwards which could mess up my mobilizing.
Worry ... worry .....
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