Sorry to hear what you are going through. This is my story I had a cervical spine op fusion and discectomy with instrumentation that had to be removed but broke while being removed I couldn't talk for 3months as my vocal chord was paralysed plus I still have a deficit a screw was left behind which I can constantly feel - I also have to be careful not to choke as there is now a narrowing. My discs on either side of the fusions c7-8 and c3-4 have crumbled and fused. They will not touch me now as there is too much scar tissue and they could damage the Vagus Nerve. I also had a Lower spine operation in 2011 which went wrong , ALIF and PLIF L3-4-4-5-5-S1 with instrumentation 4 0ps in total. The first op was the Anterior entry, 7 Days later Posterior entry.
It was found that the cage which was put in was too small, so a larger one was put in 14 days after the second op. After about 3 weeks while moving in my hospital room I got a thunderclap headache and had to lie down. We found out that I had a dural tear which had happened during the 3rd surgery they had tried to fix this with a blood blister but it failed. As days went on I suffered from intense pain, and sickness drifting in and out of consciousness - it turned out I had bacterial meningitis, a subarachnoid bleed, a dural tear and brain droop, I was told I died 3 times. I was in intensive care for 3 weeks in the hospital for a total of 3 months. In the last month of my stay, I had my 4th operation to repair the tear my consultant surgeon had an eminent brain surgeon to help with the repair. It was a success, I had to learn to walk again. I was in the hospital from the beginning of September to December 100 days. I now have residual pain from my instrumentation I cannot touch the area (across the sacrum) and after walking I feel a lot of pain also. I have had injections including nerve blocks, and nothing has helped but I am grateful I am alive.
8weeks ago I was also diagnosed with a Blood Cancer chronic myeloproliferative disease - between Essential Thrombocythaemia ET and prefibrotic myelofibrosis with Jak 2, but as my dear father also said when he was alive " Keep smiling my Darling"