Today was my appointment with new doc today and all went well. He wholeheartedly agreed I was most definitely a candidate for the scs.
I am scheduled for trial the 23th of this month unfortunately he only does the trials for three days. Also I am going to have to clarify this but from what I understood from him was that when I come back the 26th if I achieved 50% or better he would install it that day? Like I said going to have to call and clarify that. He also use's paddles says he has had much better success rate with them. On the other hand he has not received the new sure scan model that allows full body mri. Medtronics rep is supposed to contact me thursday during the day sometime. The 13th I am set up for my physic eval. Today was a very long day had all my blood work done,EKG,chest X-ray,and MRI to check and make sure there is enough room in the spinal column for the paddles to fit. Arrived 45 minutes early today in hopes of getting out of there and beating rush hour traffic in Pittsburgh (seeing I live 45 minute drive Northeast of Pittsburgh) my appointment was at 2:45 pm we got home at 8:00 pm so needless to say I didn't have to worry about rush hour traffic. Thankfully our oldest daughter was able to pick up my littlest one at the bus stop before she had to go class tonight (taking her prerequisites to become a radiologist) for us and her boyfriend watched her till we got home. I can honestly say right now it feels like a huge rock has been lifted off my shoulders knowing the ball is rolling in the right direction right now and I'm going to keep my fingers crossed on one hand at all times till it is time for me to have the trail done.