Immense thanks to Eppo and Liz for spending their day babysitting me and ensuring I got home safely. You are two great friends!
For those interested, I have fluoroscopy images of the latter procedure...
Two needles were inserted into the L1 vertebrae
Two 15-mm balloons were then inserted and inflated, creating bone cavities:
The balloons were the deflated and removed before ~ 7ml of Kyphon cement was injected. This is the beginning of the cement injection:
The doctor then removed the needles, covered the holes with a dressing, and sent me to the recovery room.
Today, almost two weeks later, 80-85% of the pain is gone and they're confident that a couple more steroid injections will take care of most, if not all, of the remaining pain.
I am cleared to resume "normal" activities...
Thank you for following my adventure in SE Asia. I will post more during my upcoming return.
Until then...
