Multi level lumbar fusion

@lisamedanic Good morning! I had a T11 to L4 fusion ate the Phoenix Mayo Clinic in December 2024. My surgeon did an amazing job with my back. The staff had trouble managing my pain and the most frustrating thing for me was that by the time a doctor came in to see me, change the medication, get it from the pharmacy, and then to me….it was late afternoon. The day shift doctors and staff would then go home. Then I would take the medication, it wouldn’t work, and then I was left to suffer through the night because the on call doctor wouldn’t make a change. I was there 9 days and experienced this cycle almost every day. I wrote a detailed message about all of this and submitted to HR with the hope it would help someone else.
I understand that my body was part of the issue with my resistance to almost all of the drugs but I also believe that with my pain level, a doctor/PA should have made the round to my bed earlier in the morning so they could give me the new medication and be able to monitor the effectiveness before they all left for the day.
Other than that, the staff was attentive and the food comes from their cafeteria and was restaurant quality in my opinion.
I found that if you use the search bar and type in different words, you can find a lot of discussions that might answer some questions. Let me know if you have any questions for me. 😊 Sherry

Are you now glad you had the surgery? Did it help?