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[quote=Anonymous]OP, where are you? If you are in the DMV, and could get your mom here, I cannot recommend Dr. Vinay Deshmukh highly enough. He did minimally invasive laminectomy/fusion surgery on my mom, who was 81 at the time of the surgery (coming up on 9 months ago) and has Type 2 diabetes to boot. I cannot be happier that she went with him over the allegedly brilliant but stereotypically arrogant and rude surgeon she'd first scheduled with.

He's with Medstar and operates at Georgetown but she sees him for follow-ups at his office in McLean.

The surgery was 100% worth it. She was on painkillers after the surgery for a couple of days in the hospital, but has had literally no pain from the compressed nerve/sciatica since she woke up from surgery. She still uses a cane and a foot brace for stability because the sciatica damaged her nerve so much she has foot drop, but she doesn't have to walk bent over ("shopping cart syndrome") anymore and she's gotten her life back.

Dr. Deshmukh has published research on how much safer minimally invasive surgery is in terms of blood loss, infection, etc. which was important given my mom's higher infection risk/potentially longer healing times because of her diabetes.

I truly think my mom might have decided to end things if she hadn't had the surgery. Her pain was intractable and medications didn't work (opioids don't work for her). She lived with the pain for years but it wasn't really living.[/quote]

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