Hey folks. Please be patient with me as my left side is still numb and its hard to type. so the surgury fused from the illium to t-2 they used 8mm pedical screws. they kept refering to me as a " big guy" another way i=of calling me plain fat LOL....it took 12 hours and here is where the story turns. the knicked the dura so i wasput in a coma for 72 hrsalso during the time under , i developed rhabdomylosis( very dangerous ) they filled me with fluids but i couldnt pass it until they hit me up with lasics... bring out the spackle buckets....during surgury they found that i had broken my back at some oint in thr past 13 years..so they had to fix that too. when taking out the arterial line, blood shot across the room which sent my heart rateup. then went into detac.. so they had to stop and restart my heart.. very scary......