Jim Tedesco (Daily Voice photo)
Bergen County Executive James J. Tedesco III is scheduled to undergo back surgery tomorrow to treat the effects of a bone infection.
Doctors at Hackensack University Medical Center will remove a piece of bone and fuse two vertebrae, Tedesco told Daily Voice from home early this evening.
Tedesco said doctors told him to expect to spend two to four days of recovery at HUMC.
“I’ve been better,” he said of his condition, caused by discitis and osteomyelitis. “It’s painful.”
Despite two months of pain, Tedesco has kept up a full schedule. READ MORE….