{"product_id":"how-i-lived-50-years-leland-olson-9781980400837","title":"How I Lived 50+ Years With a Spinal Cord Injury: Press Onward Sisu","description":"This book was recently re-edited in March 2020. I wrote this book to share the many things that have happened to my spine. The trouble started with a spinal fracture and dislocation in 1964. My right leg got paralyzed, and I spent three months on a Stryker frame in Rehabilitation. I walked out of that hospital with a cane. Syringomyelia soon started in my spinal cord and continued to hollow it out. I had Paralysis on my left side and was biting my tongue when eating, a spinal shunt was put in the spinal cord at T-3 in 1985. I continued to have more problems breathing and walking, and my balance was terrible. Another shunt was put in at T-5. In the year 2000, extensive work got done in my thoracic and cervical spine for stenosis. Part of a vertebrate was removed and then put back in with a plate. I had a slow recovery after that surgery. In 2016 another shunt was placed in my spine at T-1 to relieve the pressure at the base of my brain. At present, my spinal cord is hollowed out entirely from top to bottom. I can still walk with a walker. In 1985 most doctors had never heard of Syringomyelia. A student doctor happened to be with my neurologist during an examination, she had recently studied about my Rare Disorder. She told the doctor she thought that is what I had. A week later I was having my first spine surgery done at the VA Hospital in Minneapolis. The head of the humerus bone on my left arm dissolved in November of 1985. It became a Charcot Joint from years of paralysis, doctors declined to do an artificial joint for fear it would not heal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leland Olson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1980400830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781980400837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Leland Olson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44159475417343,"sku":"9781980400837","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f0fc06d1-e6de-4fe0-9b10-40aaebb0649d.jpg?v=1689082829","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-i-lived-50-years-leland-olson-9781980400837","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}