Prayer Request (Update)

[RustyJr]

If yall could keep my dad (Rusty) in your prayers he is having back surgery tomorrow. They are going to do a spinal reconstruction from about T11-T12 all the way down. He is a member here but neither of us have posted in some time.

Update: My dad is out of surgery and will be taken to ICU. He will remain intubated overnight. Doc says he will be in a lot of pain. Total time in surgery was approximately 8 hours.

Thanks,
RustyJr

[TedH]

You got it.

[JimT]

Yessir .. it's a privilege to do so.

[gamekeeper]

Prayers for a full and fast recovery are on the way....

[jeepnik]

Prayer sup, sir.

[Bill in Oregon]

Back surgery veteran here. You have me on my knees for your father and his surgical team.

[JMick]

Prayers for your father's surgery and speedy recovery

[.45colt]

Prayers Up. I Pray All Goes well.

[Ysabel Kid]

Prayers up for continued healing. Back surgery is no joke.

[AmBraCol]

Any update? I caught the notice he gave on FB. Give him our best regards. Prayer support continues.

[Bill in Oregon]

That was a long and difficult surgery! Praying he gets out of ICU — and the tubes out— ahead of schedule, with pain under firm control. Can’t let that horse out of the barn.

[piller]

If the pain is well controlled for the first 24 hours, it seems to me that I dispense a lot fewer pain meds to the patients in the first month out of the hospital, and a whole bunch fewer narcotics overall.
Hope he does well.

[Drawdown]

Yes, glad to pray for him and you, and all involved! I had broken neck in 1996 from mining accident, fusion surgery, not as severe as his im sure! But I understand!

[AJMD429]

If the pain is well controlled for the first 24 hours, it seems to me that I dispense a lot fewer pain meds to the patients in the first month out of the hospital, and a whole bunch fewer narcotics overall.
Hope he does well.

Yep. That first 24 hours or so really sets the stage for a lot. Aggressive early pain control absolutely does not turn a person into an addict. A person is either an addict or not and if they are, you still have to control their pain, it’s just that you have to be more aggressive, helping them cut the dose down later.
A lot of my fellow physicians evidently slept through the one semester of pharmacology they got because they don’t understand that you can’t predict how much pain medication and a patient will need based on their age or weight or severity of injury, anymore than you can tell what dose of blood pressure medicine a person needs by just looking at them.

I might add the same for antibiotics. Any of you guys to get a very major wound or infection try to get on antibiotic quickly, and on a very high dose,(and ideally more than one anabiotic) but for as short a time as possible. That’s how you fight infection without creating resistance.

When I had a rooster sperm me right through my patellar tendon and I saw the muddy and bloody spur, pull out, followed by a bunch of joint fluid, I knew the normal thing would be to get some Keflex for a few days and then the wound infection would get out of control into the joint and I’d have to go on home and antibiotics intravenously for 8 to 10 weeks. Instead, I marched right into the house and took eight 500 mg Keflex, two 875 mg Augmentin, and I think three Septra DS. I wanted to take a couple metronidazole, but I only had doxycycline which is not that similar but was all I had. Those are all considered excessive doses individually, much less taking all together. However, the point sometimes is to get a really high blood level to equilibrate into the soft tissue or joint spaces and then not give it very long. I repeated the same regimen in 24 hours, and when I got a second opinion from an infectious disease doc he said he would’ve taken the same thing except metronidazole instead of the doxycycline. I had to laugh.

Anyway, be sure they get your dad‘s pain controlled right.
Anybody in the hospital these days pretty much needs an advocate at the bedside.

[Eddie Southgate]

If the pain is well controlled for the first 24 hours, it seems to me that I dispense a lot fewer pain meds to the patients in the first month out of the hospital, and a whole bunch fewer narcotics overall.
Hope he does well.

Yep. That first 24 hours or so really sets the stage for a lot. Aggressive early pain control absolutely does not turn a person into an addict. A person is either an addict or not and if they are, you still have to control their pain, it’s just that you have to be more aggressive, helping them cut the dose down later.
A lot of my fellow physicians evidently slept through the one semester of pharmacology they got because they don’t understand that you can’t predict how much pain medication and a patient will need based on their age or weight or severity of injury, anymore than you can tell what dose of blood pressure medicine a person needs by just looking at them.

I might add the same for antibiotics. Any of you guys to get a very major wound or infection try to get on antibiotic quickly, and on a very high dose,(and ideally more than one anabiotic) but for as short a time as possible. That’s how you fight infection without creating resistance.

When I had a rooster sperm me right through my patellar tendon and I saw the muddy and bloody spur, pull out, followed by a bunch of joint fluid, I knew the normal thing would be to get some Keflex for a few days and then the wound infection would get out of control into the joint and I’d have to go on home and antibiotics intravenously for 8 to 10 weeks. Instead, I marched right into the house and took eight 500 mg Keflex, two 875 mg Augmentin, and I think three Septra DS. I wanted to take a couple metronidazole, but I only had doxycycline which is not that similar but was all I had. Those are all considered excessive doses individually, much less taking all together. However, the point sometimes is to get a really high blood level to equilibrate into the soft tissue or joint spaces and then not give it very long. I repeated the same regimen in 24 hours, and when I got a second opinion from an infectious disease doc he said he would’ve taken the same thing except metronidazole instead of the doxycycline. I had to laugh.

Anyway, be sure they get your dad‘s pain controlled right.
Anybody in the hospital these days pretty much needs an advocate at the bedside.

Please tell me you meant to say the rooster spurred you ?