@rwdixon4
Bob, that is wonderful!!!! I’m so glad you were able to talk to Dr. McClendon. Didn’t you post an x-ray of your back in the past? I’ve been looking and can’t find it. Even though I’m pretty good at navigating around Mayo connect, I still struggle with a lot of things like this!🤣

Anyhow, I will tell you one thing and that is Dr. McClendon will do the minimally invasive surgery if possible. If he believes the open surgery is the best then I would trust him. It offers him so much more ability to access and align your back. Mine was pretty straightforward C curve.

I’m so excited for you! Let me know when you get your surgery date and I can tell you about the hotels that I researched/Uber versus rental car, etc. since I flew back home into Sacramento too.

Dr McClendon definitely wanted me to fly home versus drive.

Wow!! It’s really going to happen! You are in my daily prayers along with several other people here.

It’s so amazing how much better I am doing today compared to how I was doing a year ago.
Wishing and praying for you through your journey to a better life! 😊🙏
Sherry