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Old 02-24-2013, 02:59 AM
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Originally Posted by mmareef View Post
So you may be there during Semana Santa. It could be an interesting time to be in Barcelona.
OMG. I had NO freaking idea! We will be there for the first five days of it. (It appears to start on my birthday - the 22nd - which is, incidentally, the day I get out of the hospital.)

No wonder Yolanda told me he did not perform surgeries on Easter week. I had to look it up. I had no clue this even went on.

YIKES!

Is there anything you can tell me about this celebration?
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Multiple traumas to spine starting age 13.
1st American to have 6 ADR's in one surgery. C3-4 - C/7, & L5-S1 - L3-4.
Surgery w/ Dr. Clavel, 3/18/13, M6.
Before surgery: severe spinal stenosis C5/C6 (cord "flattened" per stateside doc), + for Hoffman's & Babinsky's.
At time of surgery: 5 yrs MAX before ending up in wheelchair.
Clavel found L5-S1 partially fused. Had to cut it apart to put in M6.
Please excuse brevity - SEVERE carpel tunnel.
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