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Multiple sclerosis operation questions?

my mate has ms and she is getting an operation for it in the holidays, the only thing is i really want to know how it will turn out.
She will either end up being fine, in a wheelchair for the rest of her life, or she could die.

what are the percentages (...% be fine ,...%in a wheelchair for life, ...%dead/death)

thanks

I'm not sure what operation as its being kept quiet and she wont go into detail. Someone said they were inserting a metal rod or something in her back but i dunno if thats true

Multiple sclerosis is not a fatal disease. Mild MS also will not put anyone in a wheelchair. So the fact that she is in a wheelchair probably has nothing to do with MS.

Most people with scoliosis live full, productive, and normal lives.

In 1984, I was diagnosed with scoliosis when I was 12 during one of those junior high screenings. I was very scared at first, but got in with a good group of doctors at Shriner's Hospital and they put me so at ease. I wore a Wilmington brace from under my arms to just over my hips for 10 mo., then had surgery shortly before I turned 14 (1985). They prefer that you have had your period for two years before they do it to let you grow as much as you can, but my curve was getting too severe. My top curve was fused using stainless Steel Harrington rods and bone chips from my hip. I had to go back into a brace about a year after my surgery for 10 mos. because my bottom curve was not completely stabilized.

I'm as normally functioning as anyone (are any of us really "normal"?). I never got off schedule with school. Graduated college at 20 and have been an OR nurse for 16 years, one of the most physically demanding areas of nursing (lots of lifting and lots of standing in one place for long periods). I've had 2 children without difficulty (didn't even use an epidural). I love to travel (I don't set off metal detectors), yoga (though the fusion prevents some positions), and SCUBA dive. I can pretty much do anything I want...but don't tell my husband I use the scoliosis to get out of vacuuming :) My bottom curve aches now and then, I'm supposed to take 1-2 Alleve at bed time, but us nurses are awful patients, so I don't do it regularly.

I've never heard of this kind of operation linked to MS either.
Are you sure she has multiple sclerosis and not scoliosis?

What kind of operation? I'm also an MS sufferer and am not familiar with an operation.

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