Went for the scan last Wednesday in Harley Street. All very salubrious. Attended by a couple of delightful young ladies in white coats. Emerged into the pouring rain and stood there for 5 minutes on crutches until a taxi arrived. And the rain stopped...
The result was phoned through to me today (Sunday). In brief, there is a recurrence of the disc problem. The last operation was to chip away some bone at the joints between the vertebrae and to remove some disc that had slipped out. There is now more disc that has extruded and it is pressing on the femoral nerve. The risks attendant on these back operations are multiplied on every recurrence. And often the disc that has slipped out will be absorbed by the body, which is why slipped discs get better without an operation in most cases. So we are waiting a month to see if this starts to happen. If it does not, or it gets worse, he will go in again. In the meantime keep taking the painkillers!
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