On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:16:33 -0400,
stan....@hotmail.com wrote:
>>On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:55:14 -0400, nothermark <nothe...@not.here> wrote:
>>did a Google search - no recent obituary for a Ziegler in MN that
>>would fit.
>
>LZ: Linus Frank Zimmerman (1934-2034) lives in Sierra Vista, Arizona/ Avon, MN.
>
>> It would not surprise me if he is in a rehab facility
>>without internet access.
>
>Actually, it's surprising that he managed to get a few messages out from the hospital. Hospitals
>commonly ban any the use of any kind of consumer wireless devices, for fear that they might mess
>with electronic hospital equipment.
>
>If he is now in some sort of north woods rehab facility that doesn't have wifi, then that's pretty
>sad for all those who depend on the internet for their daily fix in rehab. :-(
>
>>A rehab facility would be normal around here. Some have internet and
>>some do not. None have sufficent security that I would want my lap
>>top with me. If he is on the right painkillers he will not be too
>>concerned about much of anything.
>
>With a multi-level spinal fusion, every post-op twitch or movement has to evoke agonizing pain! If
>his doctors are up to speed, he will probably be enjoying a generous diet of opioids. :-)
>
>>Anybody know what the normal rehab cycle is for what he had done?
>
>MONTHS!!! At the outset the procedure involves fusing a number of vertebrae into a single solid
>entity. After removing the intervertebral disks, splinters of bone are taken from the hip in an
>effort to bridge the interverterable gap, in an effort to encourage the vertebrae to grow together
>into one solid bone structure. :-(
>
>The basic problem, is that as we get OLD :-( the lamina, the cushions between the vertebrae, wear
>out, squish out, etal, causing the space between the vertebrae to become compromised. With reduced
>spacing between the discs, impinging pressure is placed upon the nerve roots as the exit the lumbar
>spine, causing MAJOR pain.
>
>With a multi-level laminectomy, in addition to bone grafts, it is paramount to stabilize the lower
>spine; and that's done with para-spinal steel rods up each side of the spine in an effort to
>stabilize the spine in an effort to promote intervertable-graft-union.
>
>How can anyone like LZ possibly recover, without a medical prescription: unbridled access to the
>internet?? !!!
Interesting. Thanks. I hope I never need to get the experience.
One note of interest - the place I am scheduled for advertises their
patient and guest internet availability. L will have her Nexus with
her tomorrow. I will not mess with a notebook or borrow her tablet as
I will be to far into lala land to care. Maybe Sunday when I get home
I will start looking at what happened while I was gone.