Frightening, but I'm so pleased to hear that the surgery was successful. Great news. Paul On Aug 4, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Charles Robinson wrote:
> On Aug 4, 2011, at 12:37, steve harley wrote: >> yeegads, it sounds like a frightening accident; hope he heals well >> > > 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 > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
