countdown to surgery: one week out

Getting some things finalized.

boarding for Muffin

I found a boarder on Rover for Muffin while I am away. Since I will be checked into the hospital early morning Monday to prepare for the very early Tuesday surgery I booked it for Sunday to Sunday. In theory I will have been home a couple days before Muffin is dropped off; that will give me time to acclimate to the new situation before re-introducing doggo.

preparing not to drive for a month

• making final grocery shopping list; will actually buy the groceries the Sunday evening before
• sending off scooter key to get a duplicate made
• preparing the Go Bag

gory details

• ACDF of C4-C5, a common cervical intervention
  • excellent overview by Prasad on YT.
• ACCF of C6, less common from what I can tell as a layman. This starts out with ACDF of C5-C6 and C6-C7 (see above).
  • another excellent overview by Prasad
  • surgical demo on a cadaver from the Seattle Science Foundation.¹ ACCF on the C5 in this case. Might want to turn on captions because the language is technical and the surgeon is masked.
• fusion from C4-C7.
  • overview by Prasad. No, not a fanboi. Yes, he’s the best I’ve found on YT.

1. lots of great content from this channel! ↩