update on cervical stenosis

To those lovely people who responded to my post about my husband’s cervical stenosis diagnosis, then I’ve got an update for you.

We had the meeting with the neuro surgeon last week and he’d met with the MDT. Without saying it in so many words, the consensus was that the surgery couldn’t guarantee my currently fit husband a better quality of life, in view of the possible high risks involved with the surgery and in fact they couldn’t guarantee the surgery to be a success. But they had to offer my husband the choice and it would have to be his final decision..

He said that the surgery (posterior procedure) could make the neck muscles weak and at worse the surgery “could” possibly cause some paralysis.

As my husband is currently very fit, and atm just has bad pins and needles down his arm, he’s decided to leave alone and not go ahead with the surgery.

He’s been discharged from the clinic but he does have the option to get a re-referral at any time.

He’s confident he’s made the right choice, so we’re now going to go full steam ahead and get our December trip to Oz booked and enjoy life.

Onwards and upwards…