Thread: Sciatica help needed.

Great news!

Wow ... have been travelling and missed this. Great to hear things are looking up and Merry Christmas cobber. Will have a few cold ones for ya!

Thanks Wayne, as I cant drink you better have more then just a few!

Remind me to tell you the story of getting my visa extended as well.

Nice to see that your upright again and on the road to recovery MM.

Must of been a huge strain on all the family and they most certainly will be looking forward to getting their fighting fit Dad back again.

Again good luck and a speedy recovery.

Thought I'd better include a few pics as well.

This is my room at Ubon Ruk hospital.



This is me high on drugs updating the good folk on TD.



Heading off to theatre



Some of the naughty muck that has been making my life a misery for 5 weeks.



4 night stay in VIP room, ambulance transfer plus all drugs, nurses, Dr's, food, and of course the operation came to 55,000 baht. 1/4 of the price of Bangkok.

All the best MeMock. Hope everything turns out ok.

Originally Posted by MeMock

Looks like a raw prawn, or one of them alien parasites which attach themselves to people's spinal nerves.

It does look like a prawn doesn't it. Obviously not close enough though as the wife didn't want me to bring it home

Marvelous. Great to read you're sorted. Was that thing dead when they took it out?
Kinda reminds me of some of those Alien movies.

Hosi looks good.

Just don't push yourself too hard mate.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Yep I spoke to him on the phone and he said he was all morphed up but doing great!

I vaguely remember talking to you!

Great to hear that you are on the mend MM. I don't suppose there will be any squash or athletics for a while, but it must be so good to feel half reasonable again. Sounds like you have people who care about you which can be a big motivator in your recovery. Good luck and have a nice late Christmas.

Me as well MM, I have just caught up on this thread and didn't realise you had a successful operation.

Great news

The hospital room looks great and at 55 K half the price of our last baby
(Caesarian) 5 yrs ago in BKK

Thanks JL and PP.

I was in contact with two Dr's in Bangkok as well organising to go there until at the last minute I found a neursurgeon in Ubon.

Their prices were between 150,000 and 200,000 baht.

Good to hear all is well.

That thing in the bag looked good enough to bbq and delicately chew on with chopsticks.

Well done Memock, maybe be able to shag to misses soon.

Make sure she's on top matey, got to look after your back.

Thanks Terry, all your advice has been wonderful!

I agree Nawty, looks great doesn't it!

Hows it going now MM?

Well panda the recovery is taking longer then I would have liked. I got the stitches out on Jan 1. Was okay for a few days and then hurt it playing with the kids and ever since then (4 days) the wound has been swollen and i basically can't do anything (no where near the pain of before though)

What was not that naughty thing that gave you all the pain?

Glad to hear that everything went well.

It was a prawn Fabian!

And how did it get on your spine? Seriously, what was it they had to cut?
And more importantly, how much better do you feel now? How long until you are back to 100%?