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Bruce E Jones
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- Current Hometown
- Hoover
- What year did you graduate?
- 1965
- About Me:
- I married Debbie Riley from Fairfield in 1975. We have 2 sons - Eric 25 and Todd 22 who have both graduated from Auburn. Todd will start this fall on his masters. We enjoy traveling by land and sea.
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Dremel tool, so it will lock into place. An xray of my back clearly shows all the screws that hold it all together. Once the synthetic filler turns all the sections into one solid bone. The surgery was all performed through four 1 1/2" incisions in my low back, two in the upper and two in the lower sections. They encountered one problem however, Garcia was trying to pull out a stainless steel gauge from between S1 and L5 that allows him to size the spacer needed...when it broke off...half of it was on the front side of my vertebra and there was no way to retrieve it. It actually became the spacer for that spot. Stainless steel will not allow the synthetic goo they put in there to form bone however...so they had to wait a year for the bone to fill in between L2 and 4 and then perform a second back surgery. This time they had to open my up completely from the front...they way they used to do all the back surgeries, push everything to one side, and have access to the spinal column. So they went in from the front, quickly removed the broken off stainless steel guage, closed me up, and flipped me back over on my stomach where they did the spacers and screws all over again from the back at L5/S1,,,,that took 4 hours. The amazing thing is that you would never guess all that is fused and solid bone. Now I am waiting for bone to form at C4/C5 and C5/C6 where arthritic bone spurs were pinching all the nerves that go to my hands, arms, shoulders etc and about to cause permanent damage. You would think that would limit you a lot but not so. Last Christmas I cut down a large (28" diameter) wild cherry tree in my back yard, cut it up and split if for fire wood for the brief cold weather we experience here in Jan and Feb. I was in swimming with my son and his girlfriend yesterday and am hoping to be well enough to throw a cast net for shrimp here in the St Johns River about a mile from our home. This old age stuff is hell but we get through it all. My wife gets credit for getting me into see Garcia...an almost impossible feat due to the demand for his skills. Every other surgeon here shook their heads and said they would not know where to start. Garcia said it was the worst he had ever seen that was not the result of some horific accident. We suspect mine was the result of using my head for a battering ram for five years at Pittman an HHS. The good news is that I am alive and well and feeling great, working, and hope to see you next year. Great to hear from you.
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