Replaced vertebrae? Like replaced with the metal mesh cage thing? cool I didn't know you could do that much of the spine, 11 holy shit, my mom had one replaced and it fucked her up, 11 how are you alive god dam. Wishing you a symptom light day
my biannual X-ray flex
technically they only replaced the disc in my neck. the others are just broken and fused
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On March 12, my spinal fusion will be fully reversed. The bones have long since fused, with the aid of the honored dead, for which I am eternally grateful & haunted, so my busted-ass metal hardware won't be replaced. I'll be... free.
Content Warning: X-Rays, surgery talk, self indulgent poetry.
I will never know the honored dead whose bones were ground to slurry to replace the shattered remains of my vertebrae when I was a broken child, my lower back peeled open on the cold metal slab so the shards of my shattered bones could be plucked out & discarded. Their bodies were recycled, & from their dust, a lattice was formed, on which my own anorectic body could rebuild.
I now wish the surgeons, the cutters, had left me with simple human blood & bone, & not the ladder of titanium screws & rods, that within 2 short years would snap in half & embed themselves in my spine, causing endless, unimaginable torment. For 22 years, I have suffered, while doctors & nurses have looked at my X-rays, & not said a damn word about the obviously broken metal rods.
Now, I'm just over a week away from freedom. There's no guarantee that this surgery will make anything better. It might even make things worse. But the metal rods & screws have started shifting, moving around inside my body. I have rolling blackouts like a low income city. I lose feeling in a few toes, my flanks, my thighs, my belly. One day it won't come back. It's time for the metal to go. My body wants it gone. I take an astronomical quantity of opiates every day just to stay sane. The alternative is opening an artery. I wouldn't last a single minute without them. I wear the scars to prove it.
My partner, 5'6, autistic, awkward, wears their scars on the inside, from having stopped me. From laying on top of me, holding me down while I screamed, begged them to please, just... let me die. Nothing was worth living a single second longer. I still don't know how the nurses & doctors failed to find the broken hardware in the ER that night. They had X-rays. They were looking at my guts. My spine was right there. 6 more years of pain they could have saved me.
...But I'm not going to sue anyone for malpractice. What's the point. They tried. They were kind. Even if they didn't listen.
Had it done at 14. I'm 21 going on 22. That shit messed me up.
Do I regret it? Probably not. My curvature was rapidly progressing. It would've been much worse without it.
Does it fucking suck? Yeah. So much. I still feel so stiff to this day. I hate the squeak of the metal. I hate the aches and pains. I hate the nerve damage.
Should I have gone to physical therapy and worn my back brace after? Absofuckinlutely.
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I have a character that gets her spine replaced with a cybernetic one and have some questions regarding spinal surgery. Not a real-world scenario obviously, but what all would spinal surgery entail? Are patients having spinal procedures prepped for surgery differently (other than having be laid out on their stomachs)? Recovery-wise, how long would a patient be down before they can get out of bed and start moving around? How long before they're clear to start laying on/putting pressure on their back? What all would a doctor/surgeon be on the lookout for as the patient recovers?
Patients who have just had spinal surgery are actually placed on their backs from the start. They are placed under spinal precautions, which entail things like no flexing of the hip or neck and logrolling (see below).
This is all to keep the spine in alignment. As the patient recovers, the medical team would be watching for signs of spinal cord injury like numbness and tingling, loss of bladder or bowel control, and neurogenic shock (low heart rate, low blood pressure, decreased level of consciousness). The patient may be able to get up and walk the same day, or after a few days of bed rest.
I wasn’t in too much pain to use them. Of course I’m in pain, but I just picked them up to put them away, and I got curious.
It didn’t feel like defeat - like it did back in September, when I re-injured myself.
It felt like…relief. And I am ashamed.
Every time I sit in the disabled seating on a train, I feel like a fraud, even though the thick line at the base of my spine would prove to anyone that I need to sit down.
Would continuing to use crutches help me, or make me weaker?
I’ve heard of low-mobility disabled people having to only sometimes use crutches or wheelchairs, and get called frauds.
I don’t think I’m that “bad.” I should be walking. I’m still on pain meds around the clock, but I shouldn’t be needing these. But they feel so much…better.
Can the disabled community please help me out with some insight? Please?