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I took a class about the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament, last semester, and one of the things the Pentateuch is known for is its collection of laws. Ancient Israelite culture was very different from our own, and one way to learn about what that culture was like is to examine what they needed laws about. That there was a set consequence for bulls goring people shows that this was common enough to be a concern. I am tempted to engrave modern traffic laws on stone or something similarly permanent so that people might dig it up 5,000 years from now. I would hope that upon reading it, they would come across a law against texting while driving. They would wonder what kind of people could ever find this kind of law a challenge to keep.
While we've grown up, technology like music players and cell phones has become ubiquitous, but we haven't quite worked out how to properly use that technology. The number of social grey areas shows this: Is it acceptable to browse the Internet on your laptop during class? Is it acceptable to text one friend while talking with another? Whatever side of these questions you may be on, there is a troubling trend towards using technology in inappropriate ways, like texting while driving or listening to an iPod during dinner at a restaurant.
One person reflecting on this trend was the first speaker in Calvin's 2012 January Series, Sherry Turkle. She is a psychologist who has focused her work since the late 1970s on how people interact with computer technology. In her book, "Simulation and Its Discontents," she describes a similar story of technology burrowing its way into unwelcome places in the world of architecture in the early 1980s. Computer-aided design (CAD) software was being introduced to architects, and many of them hated it. It made preliminary drawings look like a final design. Students were using templates in the software instead of designing their own solutions. It made it harder to get the "feel" for the place the building was going to end up. Worst of all, to the architects, the CAD software was replacing drawing and sketching. To the architects, drawing was a "sacred" part of what it meant to be an architect, and CAD software was desecrating that space.
Turkle's most recent book "Alone Together" examines how technology has impugned on another sacred space, human relationships. Human beings are marvellously subtle and complicated things, and we enjoy being physically in the presence of those we love. We still miss people that we talk to over Skype. Therefore, it is hard to argue that something hasn't gone wrong when we all know someone who felt it was necessary to reply to a text message during family dinner or church. Turkle tells the story of Hugh, a young adult who wanted his friends to give him "private cell time," without multitasking or other distractions. He found that even when his friends granted the request, they became upset if he wanted to talk about anything less than a major life crisis (page 204). The mystery is then why we are tempted to exchange being fully present with the family for being in superficial contact with friends, trading exclusive time with friends for greater efficiency. Why would we be willing to make such an uneven trade?
For one account, we can look back to St. Augustine, who was concerned with how we fulfill our natural human desires. He wrote that God created us with desires that need to be fulfilled in him, but that we instead of displace onto improper, earthly, perishable things. The same kind of dynamic is at work with technology and human relationships: Technology offers a shortcut way to fulfill our desires that does not satisfy them. We desire to be with the people we love; a shortcut way to do this is by exchanging text messages. We desire to be respected, which can be short-circuited by posting well-"liked" links on Facebook.
The problem is that flourishing, fulfilling desire in the right ends, is hard to obtain and not as exciting as it ought to be. Desire, even for good things, is bottomless — Augustine also said it is not possible to have our desires fulfilled in this life. The good things in life are scarce, and frustration is an inevitable part of being the finite things that we are. Technology dangles in front of us the possibility of bypassing these problems. I had this experience when first playing "Half-Life 2" this summer — I kept on wanting to play because it gave me such a sense of accomplishment, but it was for my great deeds in City 17, nowhere near the real world, where saving humanity is an achievement much harder to come by.
Another account looks to the way we understand human beings and the nature of relationships. We live in what philosopher Charles Taylor calls the "age of authenticity." The authenticity he is talking about is authenticity to yourself as an individual. This is why we encourage each other to study what we love in college, even if only three people worldwide can make a living in that field. It is why young adults are less willing to accept their parents' religion or denomination than in the past. It is also why we build an image around ourselves with the brands we wear (or don't wear) and broadcast an image of ourselves on Facebook, blogs and other social media.
However, being truly authentic to yourself and being self-expressive is incompatible with being the kind of person it is possible to have deep, significant relationships with. Self-expressive people are unstable and self-directed. Relationship requires being oriented towards another person, being selfless, but authenticity has a hard time even understanding what selflessness means. In this way, texting at the dinner table might not just be a breach of etiquette, but an accurate reflection of relative importance. It's making a personal choice about who I want to be with, which might not be my family.
Also a concern is that in a culture of authenticity, with droves of people expressing themselves (there are an estimated 182 million blogs according to the Nielsen Corporation) you need to be unusually interesting in order to be listened to. But being interesting is like being beautiful or strong — not everyone can be that way, and the capacity is easily lost.
Another way that we trade off genuine relationships for their electronic shadow is through a process Turkle calls "better than nothing becoming better than anything." It will be easiest to illustrate this through one of her own stories. Turkle gave Edna, an elderly woman living alone, a "My Real Baby," a robot that looks like a baby and demands frequent care. Edna's great grandchild Amy comes along. However, while Edna has the robot, Amy cannot pull Edna's attention away from it. Having the robot was better than nothing for Edna, but she saw it as better than anything when Amy showed up (page 117-119). A friend of mine knew a woman who brought her laptop to a Christmas gathering so that she could keep harvesting her Farmville crops. Farmville might be an acceptable way to spend time when bored — it's better than nothing — but it became better than anything, even family gatherings, for this woman. A cell phone is better than no communication at all, but texting has come to be treated as better than any other way to communicate. The story is one of unintended consequences: We developed and embraced a new technology to solve a real problem, but we liked it so much that the technology overshadowed over the real problem and eclipsed the real solution.
Another reasonable explanation of this trade off could be to simply say that people just don't like each other as much as we say we do. We have non-technological social cues, like reading a newspaper in a subway, that signal that we want to withdraw into our own world. Listening to an iPod or reading texts is just a more technological way of doing the same thing.
Turkle studied how people react to the program "Eliza" during the 1980s. Eliza is a chat program that is convincingly human. It works by rehashing user input, such as "I wish I could play the guitar better," into questions like "Why do you wish you could play the guitar better?" Turkle noticed people loved talking to Eliza and told it secrets that they were unwilling to tell fellow humans. She wrote, "I came to understand Eliza revealed more than people's willingness to talk to machines; it revealed their reluctance to talk to other people." (page 282) Likewise, using texting, emailing and Facebook chatting to interact with people opens a way to talk to people we feel bad abandoning but have a hard time tolerating in person.
All these ways that technology brings out our weak and dark sides should prompt both the people that create and the people that use this technology to reflect on what we have done. Certain types of technology are turning out to be like food, sex and alcohol, which are enjoyable and necessary in moderation but tempting to abuse. However, it would not be wrong for computer scientists and electrical engineers to be filled with regret at many of the ways that computers have shaped society, mixing superhuman powers with human weakness, invading the sacred space of humanness. God felt the same way about what resulted from his creation, leading him to wipe his creation clean with the flood in Genesis 6. Curiosity is a modern virtue, but sometimes we have explored avenues of technology that ought to have been left alone, leading to the proliferation of such things as atomic weapons and cell phones.
But given that the Internet, cell phones and the like are here to stay (and would pollute the primordial floodwaters terribly), a critical stance towards them will have to do. To properly use a buzzword, you could call this discernment. However, I would suggest that discernment applied to technology leads to rejection of the technology much more often than discernment of music leads to rejection of particular works. Technology is more dangerous than it is sometimes taken to be. What follows are a few directions in which a critical, discerning stance towards technology can go.
First of all, technology should always be put in its proper place: Humans are the masters of technology, not the other way around. There are many places this is not the case right now: Car technology dictates how we build cities, instead of the way people want to live. Talk to any computer science professor about user interface design, and they will give you a half-hour speech about how software unnecessarily gets in the way of people doing work because of poor design.
There is another, more subtle side to this too, where computer models of reality can shape the way we think about reality, causing us to think the world works the way a computer does. Take Facebook as an example — a computer model of real-world social interactions. But it has its own take on reality: "Friendships" are always mutual and non-hierarchical, which does not reflect the way they are in the real world. Technology masters humans here when Facebook's model of relationships influences our mental model of relationships. A critical stance identifies these disconnects and makes sure they don't become part of our assumptions about the world.
Second, a critical stance can recognize that technology gives us extraordinary power. Technology is useful to us because it compensates for things we are not naturally good at, like finding cube roots, travelling at high speeds, communicating over long distances, and remembering large documents to the letter. Technology is like a lens that magnifies our abilities. However, it also magnifies our potential for evil and destruction, making much worse things easily possible. It makes it possible to hurt people over long distances and smash ourselves into things at high speeds. Being cautious about which technologies we use and how we use them is a necessary safeguard on the power they give us.
Finally, being critical of technology and limiting ourselves makes it possible to rediscover the virtue of contentedness. The ability to communicate quickly and openly has done more to seed discontent than anything else I can think of. It makes it easy to see how many Facebook friends it takes to be popular, how many papers I need to publish before I graduate, and how much recognition other people are getting for the same accomplishments I've made. As well, since the Internet has levelled the intellectual playing field by making quality information easy to access, my level of opportunity is the same as those who have been extremely successful. In these ways, technology makes it easy to feel like a failure even if you are doing exactly what you ought to be doing, occasioning envy.
"Technology is seductive when what it offers meets out human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed," Turkle notes in "Alone Together" (page 1). We are vulnerable to trade real relationships for safe, superficial ones, so we are tempted to use the technology at our fingertips towards the wrong ends. Looking at technology with critical eyes ensures that technology is what it ought to be — a means toward human flourishing in the real world.
For Further Reading
Jonathan Franzen spoke about love and his Blackberry at his commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2011. The New York Times ran a version of that speech.
Andy Crouch, the author of "Culture Making," wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal about Steve Jobs' death, talking about how technology impinges on and offers an alternative to religion.
Peggy Orenstein wrote in the New York Times about Twitter as performance.
Turkle gave an interview with NPR's "On Being" in April 2011.
This piece was also published in the Calvin Chimes on January 13, 2012.

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|Poly(Furfural-Acetone) as New Adsorbent for Removal of Cu(II) from Aqueous Solution: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Studies
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|Kinetic Studies on Lipase-catalyzed Transesterification of Phosphatidylcholine with ?-linolenic Acid Ethyl Ester
|Junmin Du, Dong Wu, Xianglin Hou, Cuiping Feng
|Spectrophotometric detremination of Lead in Environment Samples by Benzoic acid Azo PhenylCalix[4]arene (BAPC)
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|Retention Profile of Selenium (IV) from Aqueous Media Containing Bromide Ions Employing Polyurethane Foams
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|One-pot Preparation of ?–amino Carbonyl Compounds by Mannich Reaction Using MgO/ZrO2 as Effective and Reusable Catalyst
|Nagrik D. M., Ambhore D. M., Gawande M. B.
|The Effect of Gel and Pressure Induced Flow (PIF) Processing Conditions on the Dispersion and Intercalation of MMT Nanoclay in UHMWPE/ Montmorillonite (MMT) Clay Based Nanocomposite Sheets
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|Preparation and Characterization of Disulfide Functionalized Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Biomedical Applications
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alright so the other day i saw this beautiful 2007 F350 SC LB 6.0 at a dealership. used with 85000 miles. Ive been looking for a new truck for a while now, but i have been looking for 7.3 powerstrokes because i have heard all these horror stories about 6.0s and their head studs and egr and oil coolers and all this stuid sh!t. SOO my question is, are all 6.0s the same? like someone told me the ealier ones are worse, some people say the later model ones are worse... are they all the same!?! i just don't wanna drop 24k on a truck thats going to need 3k more in a year because the head studs stretched..... when i could just buy a 7.3 for 15 and have no worries. IDK help me out guys
Are all 6.0s the same?
We just had a discussion about this. In the end, the different problems with each truck about even out. The 03 trucks have the less problematic round style EGR cooler and don't have to get the updated dummy plugs and all that jazz. The 03-05 trucks have problems of their own too. The 05-07 trucks are much better looking IMHO.
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i also bought a 2006 6.0 after hearing horror stories and people telling me dont do it but i did my homework checked oasis reports drove and checked out truck and now its been 2 years almost to the day and all i can say is i just love it it has stock bolts but has been deleted and the common updates have been done
in the summer we pull a 12k toy hauler all over for my son to race motorcross and it does just fine
like i said if you do your homework and take care of regular maintenance you should have no problem
I heard and researched a ton of info before deciding to attempt purchasing a 6.0 so I knew what I was getting myself into. Found a 2005 Ex with 135k on it and had an oasis report done and borrowed a monitor to verify engine health. All checked out good but even still at about 138k I lost the HPOP, two injectors and the IPR valve. But, with help from this forum and a bunch of wrenching and cussing got problems taken care of. Still have stock head bolts and don't hot rod truck would not get rid of it for nothing. Do they and can they have problems yes but, they are good strong engines. Just know what your getting into and monitor that thing like a hawk to catch problems before they become high $$$. Good luck in your search.
now, the 6.0 debate. i love my 04 CC FX4. shes deleted and oil cooler relocated. studs? no clue. previous owner put quite a bit of money into it (BPD EGR delete (-gutted cooler-) and Oil Cooler Relocation kit, RC 4" lift) and im driving it daily, and towing a 8.5X16ft tandem enclosed trailer often. im running an SCT livewire and a canned tow tune, and she runs like a champ. it really is a hit or a miss, and can vary greatly depending on how the previous owner(s) treated the truck. im not gonna lie, i dont baby it anymore, but i dont beat on it. ive decided if its going to go pop, its gonna happen no matter what. im running Rotella T6 and a bottle of Diesel Kleen every fill-up (cost me $5 at work ).
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Any pointers to where you can buy 900 fill down, or what it may cost per ounce / pound?Thanks,Mike
http://www.speerhammocks.com/Products/PRODUCTLINK2.htmit's at the bottom of the pageAYCE at Thru-Hiker has 800 fill down. If it's a quilt you want to make, he has a good deal on kits.http://www.thru-hiker.com/MaterialDetail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=MG113&subcat=InsulationHope this helps
I've ordered down through Ayce,(thru-kiker) several times.Give him a call and ask what the last batch of down fill is.Ayce puts 800 fill, because you will get at least that.Most of the time his fill order is around 830 but when he gets the 860 fill he orders more, so it will be available about 1/2 the time.You can call 900 what-ever you want, but 100% of it will be 860.I don't think they have there staff picking out the few feathers that come in it to make it 900.In fact the down pretty much is 900 fill that you get. The few feathers you get with it are what bring it down to the 830-860 range.Maybe that's why company's call it 900 fill. They just count the good stuff as the number and don't take anything off for the few feathers that come in it.Ask Ayce, he'll tell you straight.If you want to spend more for the 900, try also ordering 3 ounces from thru-hiker to see for your self, (it's all comes from the same batch).If you think about it, a company that claims 900 fill can save a 1/2 ounce for every 9 ounces over competitors like Western Mountaineering. So why does WM only claim 850 fill? Because they're honest.I would take a 900 fill companies claim with as much of a grain of salt as I would there claim to keep you warm at that bags certified temperature rating.
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I consistently purchase items from Ayce @ Thru-Hiker.com. His items have always been top notch. I purchased 15oz of his 800+ fill down for this quilt. I also purchased down from another source that claimed to be 850+ fill weight. I built two identical quilts and Ayce's down was the clear winner in loft. I gave the other quilt to a friend who is just getting into UL backpacking. I trust Ayce and back his products. Hope this helps.
What loft did you end up with and what temp is it good down to?
Mark- I have somewhere around 3 1/2" to 4" of loft. I spent a night at Kearsarge Lake and my thermometer said 23 degree overnight low and I was fine with just Silk Weight Capeline on. Any colder and I would put on my Flight Jacket for extra protection. I have been very happy with this project and used it quite a bit last summer and fall. CheersEasty
The quilt is georgous!Is that Omnitape or just velcro?
David,I really like your quilt. The red color is great.It is hard to beat Thru-Hikers materials.
That is one nice quilt. We must have more details! Is it sen through or baffled? What is the weight? I would love to try something like that but I'm not quite brave enough yet. What materials did you use? Also,are the directions available?
You guys are giving me more credit than I deserve. Bill F. or Vick H. can do this stuff in their sleep! Since this is my third quilt I don't have a so called pattern. I just figured out what I wanted and went for it. I used a baffeled design with Nanoseeum mesh for the baffles and 1.1 downproof with a DWR for the top (RED) and Momentum for the inside (BLACK). For my next one I'll make it all Momentum as the fabric is the best I've ever used and its water repellency is second to none. I used standard velcro and draw cords with cord locks at each end. I wanted the capability to use it as a back country blanket hence the draw cords at each end. Total weight with spinnaker cloth stuffsack is 26oz and I figure its good to 20 degrees. This is a pretty simple MYOG project with the hardest part being filling the baffles with down and getting each baffle EVEN. I also sewed grossgrain loops that I attach my backpack compression straps to go around my sleeping pad so I don't migrate off in the night. Multi use, right?! After sleeping in it a few nights I realized I needed a snap at the top of the velcro to stop it from opening when I toss and turn in the night. After stealing an idea from Vick, I found a snap that would hold without being so big that I felt it when I slapt on it. I now works perfectly. I urge you guys to patronize Ayce at Thru-hiker.com as he helped me alot and always has great stuff instock. I've made bivys and tarps from his materials with great luck also. Check out the thread started by William Hutchinson "best all around bivy set up". Hope this helps. Thanks for the compliments.Easty
Sorry I forgot to send a photo of the grossgrain loops.Easty
Hey nice quilt! i 'm making a quilt and I need a snap..where did you get yours?Royal
Royal,That type of snap is sold in most fabric stores. They are sewn on.
Royal - Here is a photo of the snap packaging that I purchased at a local fabric store. The diameter is about the same as a nickel. Hope this helps.Easty
Thanks for the tip...I'll pick one of those up for my quilt. ROyal
What are the dimensions on your quilt? I have been considering making a quilt and will try and make a prototype out of $1.00/yard fabric to see if I can handle it. Also, do you have a picture of the footbox? I am having trouble visualizing the drawcord. Sorry, I am really new to this stuff. Thanks alot!
Jonathan- Here are some photos to help you with your quilt project. Hopefully the dimensional photo shows up enough for you to read the measurements. Good Luck,Easty
Thanks so much! That will help me a whole lot. Your quilt looks awesome man. I am going to make a summer quilt (summer in the Smokies doesn't get very cold) So I was considering getting 6 oz of 800 fill power down to use, and to simplify construction I am considering using sewn through baffles instead of using no-see-um and making continuous baffles. My goal is to be as close to 16 oz as possible. My 32 degree bag serves me well even though it is 38 oz (I'm a poor college student). This quilt seems like a cheap(er) alternative to buying a summer bag.
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The man, who came from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, has not yet been named, and according to event organisers the British Heart Foundation, it is the seventh fatality in the race's 35-year history.
BBC News reported Nancy Prior, head of Events at the BHF, as saying: "We are deeply saddened that someone has died following the ride yesterday and extend our sincere condolences to their friends and family."
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GREENSBORO, N.C. - Frustrations about larger class sizes, low salaries and sparse pay raises prompted a group of teachers in our state to turn to social media to organize a walk-out.
But, now that event has become a "walk-in." Walking out, as originally planned, is against North Carolina law.
"The legislators that passed this budget, that voted for the budget, need to know that it's not just educators that are angry and educators that are frustrated. Communities are frustrated. Our parents are frustrated. Our students are frustrated," Amy Harrison, a representative of the Guilford County Chapter of the North Carolina Association of Educators said.
The "Walk-in" Day is Monday, November 4, 2013. Every school district is treating it differently. In Guilford County, the district is inviting parents, community members and lawmakers to visit schools Monday morning. Teachers will remain in their classrooms.
"I think teachers are frustrated with having to do more with less year after year after year. We're just trying to put something together where we can tell teachers...You don't have to walk out for your voice to be heard," Guilford County Schools Principal Jamie King said.
The district says all the safety policies that are usually in place for visitors at schools are not changing for this event.
The North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) supports the effort and is encouraging teachers and schools to participate all over the state.
NCAE president Rodney Ellis emailed WFMY News 2 the following statement:
The idea behind the "Walk-In" is to have parents, community members and elected officials gather at their local schools and have meaningful conversation about the challenges and successes we are experiencing in our schools. We believe that schools, students and educators succeed when stakeholders have input in the decision making process and the "Walk-In" provides the opportunity to have those conversations.
The NCAE supports the Walk-In because we believe it is a positive alternative to the initially proposed "walk-out". We respect the fact that educators are frustrated and motivated to take collective action but we felt there are other ways to get our message across. Inviting parents and law-makers to "walk in", is a much more positive approach and has been well received by school administrators across the state.
No, this is not an attempt to bring politics into our schools despite the fact that politics govern our schools. We are simply trying to identify ways we can address the concerns of educators, parents and elected officials regarding student achievement in NC. We believe students need resources, parental support, professional educators in the classroom and a commitment from lawmakers to provide them.
A Raleigh event could pull teachers out of the classroom. Senator Phil Berger has criticized the idea saying, "Schools have a duty to educate and protect our children, not serve as marching grounds for political protests orchestrated by unions."
Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools is having a similar walk-in event in November, during American Education Week. Alamance Burlington School System is inviting people to wear red to show support for teachers on Monday, like districts across the state.


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The first-ever President's Golf Classic in Michigan and a unique Saturday Regional Event at a minor league baseball stadium near Grand Rapids brought more than 200 people together to connect with BBC&S and raise money for student scholarships.
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I see Drs. in the following systems: Aurora, Wheaton Franciscan, Froedtert and ProHealth Care.
So depending on which system you can go to or choose to go to, in the search bar type in let's say ProHealth get to their site then find a doctor, look for the type of specialist and miles, they will give you a list, highlight the one that interests you and read about the person. You can also type that Drs. name in the search bar I use Bing, it will give you more info about the Dr.
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That is the best I can do - given the rules here on this site - I do hope it helps. Deb.View Thread
I wore my hard brace 2 months before surgery to see if I was a candidate, I was. I wore my brace for about 7 months afterwards because I had to wear it while using my bone growth stimulator, which aids in fusing the bones together.
The length of time you wear your brace does depend on your doctors orders. Everybody's healing time is different. Having the brace on for that length of time does help in its healing.
When is your surgery scheduled for? I will pray for you.View Thread
Being a type 2 diabetic doesn't help either because it does raise my sugars quite high for a few days.
My next phase is the facet injections but I have to wait a few months as I am preparing for surgery for my colon. I mentioned it in another post. Keep us posted as to what happens next for you I'll keep you in my prayers.View Thread
I will go on a 7 day clear liquid diet just before. Now I get all the regular appts. with PCP for the blood work etc.....recoup time is about 6 weeks or longer. Then I have to go and meet with the stoma dr. for training etc.....
Thanks for thinking of me, Deb.View Thread
Mine is an Aspen Vista they tried a medium first, too big so they used a small. You can see them online at www.aspenmp.com look up products for the neck or cervical collar.
The shots I have recently gotten are steroid injections called "Trigger Point Injections" small amount of steroid goes into the spots that are the most painful. Mine actually went along the incision line due to my muscle problems. They do help but one spot is giving me problems and the MRI showed I now have facet disease in that area.
I can't have any more shots for 3 months.
I am glad to hear you are seeing a Neurosurgeon.View Thread
I had one for my neck - but wasn't allowed to use it until I was 6 weeks out for surgery. I wore mine while I wore my neck brace for 4hrs a day for 6 months and didn't have any of the problems you are mentioning.
Keep us posted as to what is happening.View Thread
If your appt. isn't for 3 mos. can you see if you can get in sooner to discus the neck brace? PT is good first as it strengthens the back muscles.View Thread
My initial surgery was in June 2011, The pain level was off the charts 20 I was on IV pain meds for 2 weeks then pain pills for a month after each surgery and like I said earlier went to rehab for 2 months, I had to wear the same brace for about a total of 6 months before I could go without it - but you also have to bare in mind I had 7 vertebrae done all at the same time. I could not hold me head up by myself at all.
My last surgery was Sept. 2012 to remove all the hardware because my body didn't like it in there and caused a host of pain. I was 100% fused. Since the hardware has been removed the only "pain" I have is being caused by my muscles, I have a 10" cut from the base of my head to the T-3 level of the spine.
I am not on pain meds but do go in for trigger point injections 3 times a year and now have to take a muscle relaxer 2 times a day. I have 0 movement in my neck, but I heard with C3-C4 fusions movement is not limited.
I almost forgot to answer your question did it help? Yes, I am no longer passing out drinking a glass of water. If I had to do it all over again I would - I had an excellent Neurosurgeon.
I posted what I know based on my situation - everyone is different - how they respond can also be different. I will answer to the best of my ability that way you don't have to feel like you are alone.View Thread
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