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My name is Harold Sweet I am 54, all my friends call me Tony, so please call me Tony.
In 1984 at 24 years of age I started having back problems. The problems are so bad I could not walk for months at a time. The doctors kept telling me I was pulling muscles and such.
Then in 1987 at 27 I am in an accident and crush my T-4 vertebrae. I spend around 6 months in a body cast.
In my 30's I start hurting worse. Its not only my back but my body now that is hurting. I go to the doctor and tell him this and he agains blows it off as nothing but muscle aches and pains.
Then in 2002 at the age of 42 everything takes a very bad turn. I wake up one morning and my neck is hurting. I blow it off as just sleeping wrong as we all do. After about 4 or so weeks I find that I can not hold onto things. I am at work using a ballpeen hammer and it kept flying at of my hands. Then I find I can not hold onto my tooth brush. I go to the doctor and he finds I have a broken neck. Dr. Peters told me after my operation on my neck that I had the worse neck he ever saw. Dr. Peters was at the time the Doctor for the Denver Bronco's. He said for him to be telling me this, that was something.
It takes about 4 months before I can walk again. About one week after I am up walking around, I was helping my son and crushed L-4 L-5.
Now the doctors are telling me hold on we have a problem here. I said you think. They did a bunch of test and found I have a very bad case of Osteoporosis I was 42 when they found all this.
From my mid 40's to today I have been hospitalized more times then I can remember. This is not counting all the times I have ended up in the ER.
So here we are at present day. I have again in the past few months been in the ER a few times. I have fractured my lower back and the doctors started doing more test.
They sent me in for a Discogram. For those who have never heard of a Discogram, first let me explain it has nothing to do with mirror balls and music..lol
This operation is perfromed to find out how bad ones back is, the disc's that is, and just what it will take to repair the back.
The doctor wants to do a fusion but was concerned about the condition of the remaining disc's. This test told him that.
So this operation is done with the patient wide awake, no pain meds. They take these long needles and insert them through your back into the disc's, watching on an x-ray to guide the needle. But they still push the needle into your spinal cord for they can not see soft tissue through an x-ray. They then put this dye through the needles and into the disc's. How bad the pain is, along with how much dye seeps from the disc tells the doctor what is going one. The surgeon told me this would be the worse pain I will ever live through. I believe he was right. After about 45 mins of me screaming it was over. They had to stop 3 times for the doctor thought I was going to have a heart attack. My blood pressure went so high.
They found that I have too many bad disc's to do any kind of fusion and that I need a disc replacement. But insurance will not pay for this disc replacement and I will have to live life in missery. No one has any idea the amount of pain I go through everyday and night.
My doctor told me I could never afford this surgery out of pocket because just to replace one disc was over 100,000 bucks. I need multi disc replaced.
I can not live like this. This is not right, I went out and purchased new insurance like everyone was told but now I can not get any help and am told I must live like this for the insurance will not help me.
I need help and did not know where to turn, so I came here. Please find it in your heart to donate to my cause. I woud like to thank everyone for taking the time to read my story and thinking about those in need even if its not me.
Together we can do this, alone I can not. Please help.
Thank you.
My name is Harold Sweet I am 54, all my friends call me Tony, so please call me Tony.
In 1984 at 24 years of age I started having back problems. The problems are so bad I could not walk for months at a time. The doctors kept telling me I was pulling muscles and such.
Then in 1987 at 27 I am in an accident and crush my T-4 vertebrae. I spend around 6 months in a body cast.
In my 30's I start hurting worse. Its not only my back but my body now that is hurting. I go to the doctor and tell him this and he agains blows it off as nothing but muscle aches and pains.
Then in 2002 at the age of 42 everything takes a very bad turn. I wake up one morning and my neck is hurting. I blow it off as just sleeping wrong as we all do. After about 4 or so weeks I find that I can not hold onto things. I am at work using a ballpeen hammer and it kept flying at of my hands. Then I find I can not hold onto my tooth brush. I go to the doctor and he finds I have a broken neck. Dr. Peters told me after my operation on my neck that I had the worse neck he ever saw. Dr. Peters was at the time the Doctor for the Denver Bronco's. He said for him to be telling me this, that was something.
It takes about 4 months before I can walk again. About one week after I am up walking around, I was helping my son and crushed L-4 L-5.
Now the doctors are telling me hold on we have a problem here. I said you think. They did a bunch of test and found I have a very bad case of Osteoporosis I was 42 when they found all this.
From my mid 40's to today I have been hospitalized more times then I can remember. This is not counting all the times I have ended up in the ER.
So here we are at present day. I have again in the past few months been in the ER a few times. I have fractured my lower back and the doctors started doing more test.
They sent me in for a Discogram. For those who have never heard of a Discogram, first let me explain it has nothing to do with mirror balls and music..lol
This operation is perfromed to find out how bad ones back is, the disc's that is, and just what it will take to repair the back.
The doctor wants to do a fusion but was concerned about the condition of the remaining disc's. This test told him that.
So this operation is done with the patient wide awake, no pain meds. They take these long needles and insert them through your back into the disc's, watching on an x-ray to guide the needle. But they still push the needle into your spinal cord for they can not see soft tissue through an x-ray. They then put this dye through the needles and into the disc's. How bad the pain is, along with how much dye seeps from the disc tells the doctor what is going one. The surgeon told me this would be the worse pain I will ever live through. I believe he was right. After about 45 mins of me screaming it was over. They had to stop 3 times for the doctor thought I was going to have a heart attack. My blood pressure went so high.
They found that I have too many bad disc's to do any kind of fusion and that I need a disc replacement. But insurance will not pay for this disc replacement and I will have to live life in missery. No one has any idea the amount of pain I go through everyday and night.
My doctor told me I could never afford this surgery out of pocket because just to replace one disc was over 100,000 bucks. I need multi disc replaced.
I can not live like this. This is not right, I went out and purchased new insurance like everyone was told but now I can not get any help and am told I must live like this for the insurance will not help me.
I need help and did not know where to turn, so I came here. Please find it in your heart to donate to my cause. I woud like to thank everyone for taking the time to read my story and thinking about those in need even if its not me.
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Tony Sweet
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Pawnee, IL
