------ Forwarded Message From: phyllis Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:53:22 -0500 To: Lloyd Hey Subject: Thanksgiving blessings Good morning, Dr. Hey: We are up preparing for a feast and stopped a moment to reflect on our blessings.  This Thanksgiving...

I dropped of Lexi and her mom at RDU airport Sunday morning, for their flight back home from after her surgery last week.  I received this note from Lexi’s mom today.  We’ll be working on getting her back into training...

PReop kyphosis 84. T3-L3 instrumentation and fusion w osteotomies. Postop: normal Ebl: 650 ccCell saver: 300. Complications: none. Family thankful. Life is good!

Just finished the anterior posterior reconstruction for flat back on the 46 Yo woman from Ohio w Harrington rod fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis many years ago. She did great w surgery. Anterior took 2 hrs L45 and L5S1 ALIF....

Just finished anterior. Both discs were completely gone, bone on bone. Had to take a lot of time to gradually jack up and clean out each space. Got 16 mm cage in at both L45 and L5S1. Her disc spaces...