NKY couple undergoes back-to-back spine surgery
Written by Haley Parnell, LinkNKY
One morning while making breakfast, Ron Hoerst’s back pain had become so severe that his eggs, bacon and toast made it to the kitchen table, while he crawled to the couch to sit down.
“I went back half an hour later and ate my cold eggs,” Ron Hoerst said. “They were delicious.”
What’s more is that his wife, Cathy Hoerst, was also experiencing her own symptoms caused by back pain. For her, the pain was in her leg, shooting down to her foot. Before retirement, she traveled frequently for work and had to constantly adjust her rental car’s seat to suit her comfort level so she could drive without pain.
Eventually, for the Hebron couple, their pain became too much, and they decided to have surgery about nine months apart. Their surgeries were both performed by Dr. Steven Bailey, a neurosurgeon at Mayfield Brain & Spine, at St. Elizabeth in Edgewood. Mayfield’s Crestview Hills office is about a mile down the road from St. Elizabeth, and Mayfield neurosurgeons and providers work daily with the hospital system to serve patients in Northern Kentucky with spine disorders, brain tumors and other neurologic conditions.
