"daytripper" wrote in message
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That sounds excellent, Mark.

It's most EXCELLENT, if I do say so myself!

In and out that quick and recovering function already, it sounds like you
had
a micro-laminectomy done? I've had two, and the immediate results were as
profound as yours sounds. Just like flipping a switch.

I don't recall the proceedures name--Cervical disc surgery?, but the doc
goes in from the front of my neck, cuts out a section of bone from the
*foramina/lamina*. Then he removes the disc, partially or completely. He
then take a bone segment to fuse the vertebrae. I chose to go with the
donor bone graft, as he said my recovery time would mainly depend on the
bone removed from my hip. He also said the pain factor shoots up, if he
uses my own bone. He srews a metal plate to the two vertebrae, to hold the
bone wedge in place, where the disc used to be.

Presently, the only pain I am experiencing is a sore throat form the
trach-tube, and repositioning of my esophogus during surgery. I LOVE MY
NEURO-DOC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll have to Tivo today's game to see what my home boyz are gonna face.
This
whole playoff thing is pretty exciting - it's been 8 years since the last
time
they were even in the playoffs, never mind contending for the 1AA
championship.

Last year was our first, if Im not mistaken. I just got a call from Dan
"the elevator man" Steiger. He's Otis' elevator man on campus and he has to
work all the games, because of the chancellor's box. He was callin' to
check on me, which naturally led a 30 minute talk. He said that Youngstown
St. makes us look like a pee wee league team :~^ ( he said the Youngstown
St. boyz are difinitely "corn fed!" He should know, as he's from Iowa
himself and no little bitty fella. I'm converting him from a worm dunker to
a real fisherman. He gave me a Knight black-powder .50 cal and I am giving
him a 5-6 wt. Reddington rod, a Diawa reel, and the necessary accoutrements
to get him on the water.

And the UMA football operation usually runs a net yearly deficit
of a couple of million dollars, so this adventure might help them out next
year...to pry open those alumni wallets ;-)

After we won last years championship, the sports program came into a bout 36
million in alumni monies, not to mention what it has done for us recruiting
atheletes and undergrads in general. If we win the championship this year,
I might eve get a raise :~^ )~

You wanna place a bet?

Op


/daytripper