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Eric Hertsen
saxat från kiteboardbuilder forumet:
Yes guy’s, I’m back and fighting, not easy this time, lots of painful nerve damage and a left leg that need lots of work.
In short,
I flew in 2 US specialist to stabilize my spine (old and well used), they put in 2 bars with 4 screws to do the job, sewed me up and send me home, after 4 day’s the pain was to severe and I went for a second opinion to a kite friend who happens to be a Neuro Surgeon. He checks me out and finds that one of the screws was placed straight trough my spinal cord and was pressing on a nerve root in the L4 area. On top of that my white blood cell count was at 18000 which means severe infection, meningitis. Now all that together puts me on the critical list and they need to stabilize me to get me strong enough for a second operation. The operation had a les than 50% survival rate and we signed all the paperwork in case I did not make it. There was a blood drive in Cabarete for me and a week later I was strong enough for them to give it a go. The operation was a success, in saving my life but they had no time to remove the other hard ware the US surgeons had placed. One of the screws still sits at 2mm from my Aorta and will be removed on a later date. This whole ordeal lasted 5 weeks…….For now I’m left with severe nerve trauma in my left leg, and I lost more then half the motor function of that leg, lucky me I can still walk with the muscle function that is still there. Whit time the other muscles will take over the functions and some others will come back on line. But I will have to bite my teeth for a while….
So alive and ”slowly kicking” 🙂
Eric
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6 Svar
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smisk på amerikanska läkarna
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hårdrock…
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Vad var det hände?
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Fallskärmshopp.
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motorcross olycka för en månad sedan…
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Frugans brökavel…
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