1 year anniversary of my daughter's decompression

[momintexas]

Hi everyone!

I just wanted to share that my 11 year old daughter had her decompression surgery done one year ago, on May 13th and is a complete success story! She is doing amazingly well and has no problems. All of her post-op appointments and MRI were great. She has returned to all activities, and actually has added more activities than pre-surgery because her headaches prohibited her from participating in all of the sports she wanted to. She is very active at school, no limitations, does dance/drill team, plays volleyball, and has just started running track.

She had a 21+mm herniation and had decompression and duraplasty performed by Dr. Dale Swift, Pediatric Neurosurgeon at Children's Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Pre-surgery symptoms included daily headaches to the point of vomiting, numbness/tingling in extremities, vertigo, ringing in ears, some balance issue, drastic eye sight changes, severely blocked CSF flow resulting in her not bending over/changing positions often. Today, she has NONE of those symptoms!!!

I know there are many scary stories out there and not all of them have happy endings, but I want to give those of you embarking on this journey HOPE! Wishing you all the best!

One of the lucky ones,
Mom to Madison (11 yo)
Decompression/Duraplasty 5/13/2009
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[LindaPidgeon]

Congrats on your one year successful surgery...You Have such a beautiful and brave little girl....Its so nice to read a success story as I myself will probably be heading for decompression soon and your story has given me a bit more confidence about it....So a huge Thanks for Sharing and hope the healing continues...
Linda...xxx

[sydney'smom]

Thank you so much for sharing. Our 10 yr old daughter was dx back in January of this year and we are now talking about surgery sometime in the next 6 months. Luckily her daily symptoms have all but gone away but her most recent MRI shows a Syrinx has formed. We are so fearful of the outcome of the surgery, so it is nice to read about your daughter doing so well.

Best of luck and I hope she continues to do well.