YES! We are in the home stretch!This is the Aspen collar Jan will be wearing for some period of time after the halo comes off. It may not look very comfortable but then it is all relative when you have been BOLTED INTO A HALO FOR 12 WEEKS!
The NP previously said she would have to wear the collar for six weeks without taking it off for anything except showers and then to not move her head. She even said we should have two collars, one to shower in one and one to transfer to once done. I'm hoping the doctor is more reasonable.
Wearing a collar without any neck movement seems like a step backward in treatment. If the bone is healed, she needs physical therapy sooner, not later. The doctor will explain it thoroughly and to my satisfaction or I'm not leaving. The NP was terrible at communicating reasons, only repeating what the doctor allegedly said. Well, this time it will be the doctor so there can be nothing lost in translation.
Jan has, what I deem, an irrational fear that the doctor won't remove the halo at the March 4th visit and will force us to return on the following day to keep the appointment with the NP for actual removal. Yeah, not on my life! By all accounts, it takes less than 10 minutes to get it off safely!
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