Whole back and head injury after a terrible fall

@egodesign Oh you poor thing! Now I don't feel so bad after my surgery. I was in the hospital for 7 days for a fusion in my back from T-10 to S-1, I was in t he hospital that long because of a blood being off and having very low blood pressure.

I feel for you and hope something goes better for you. It must be very scary. My prayers sent your way.

Thank you Colleen: I fell when visiting my friend in France first, but in France, in the ER, well, just say it is not perfect, so I forced myself to walk and despite my pain, I took a taxi and went back to my friend's. I was OK really despite my terrible pain, but I could walk. A family doctor I went to see, even said: You walk, then you are OK. As incredible as it seems, my walking and the other problems occurred a few months later when I was in England.
In France, I had two MRI's: one for the head, one for the spine. Well to be short, for the back they found a fracture compression on vertebrae L2, and nothing else.
But for the head, despite my giving them my clips reference, they must have put the MRI strength too high, because I had pain while I was on the table. Then I had dizziness and nausea. This is why I believe it is so difficult to know if it is my head or my spine that is responsible for my legs' weakness and numbness now.

In England, they found an injury near my clips, that the French didn't find. So is it possible that the injury in my head, near my clips, had damaged my aneurysm surgery?
I still don't have my answer to that.
They also found CSF, a cyst on my pituitary gland, enlargement of my ventricles - but said it's not hydrocephalus, although it seems I have all the symptoms and the french radiologist said I have hydrocephalus - but he is the only one who said it - But the weakness and numbness started in November and I went to the hospital in London end of December. They kept me one month but didn't do the MRI. They said they didn't have a spot for me at the MRI because they needed one hour and a half spot that they didn't have. Finally they discharge me without any test.

The English doctors said I have discs damage, pressure on the disks, degenerative disks - which I always knew I had since I was 45 years old but never really suffered from it - but nothing like spinal cord damage, until last Tuesday. I was 74 years old last June 5th.

By then, I had tremendous difficulty walking and my brain was very painful (pressure on my temples, feeling of cold liquid running inside, headaches and very strange noises). I had difficulty concentrating, some memory problems, so I had to stay put.

When I decided to go back to the States anyway with assistance, COVID 19 happened.

Finally, I had my MRI only on April 27, and I couldn't see the doctor before last Tuesday June 16, when one of the young doctors said I have a spinal cord damage. And that is it.

Now I want to go back but I really don't have the courage to travel for such a long time. I am staying now in a hotel. It is also true that I wanted to have the final word from the doctors in London. I don't think I achieved so much.

Lilypaws - I remember you mentioning that surgery. Hope you are doing well, that’s a HUGE fusion. All I can say is I hope you are healing and though you have obvious surgical pain, I hope you have less of the actual preop pain! When I woke up from my jaw joints replacement, I could FEEL the difference right away! Such a delightful relief to know I was hurting from surgery but not from bad jaw joints! This must make sense to others, I hope!

@wisco50 It was a tough 9 hour surgery with 3 hours in the recovery. I kept on having low blood pressure, which cause me to almost p pass out. My Hemaglobin was low so I had to have a red blood cell.infusion. I was in the hospital 7 days/ I am very tired and wear a brace. Would you forward this to @lioness. I need to get stronger.
Jeanie Thank you for asking. Jeanie

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