suitable for Ms. Lemoine. These potential jobs were submitted to Ms. Lemoine. According to her testimony, she investigated the jobs but was unsuccessful in finding employment which she was physically capable of performing.
Ms. Lemoine received no additional medical treatment between Dr. Mayer's release and the termination of compensation benefits on March 7, 1992. However, sometime in the late spring or early summer of 1992, the plaintiff presented herself to the Huey P. Long Charity Hospital in Pineville, Louisiana, still complaining of lower back pain. She was referred by that institution to the Louisiana State University Medical School in Shreveport, Louisiana, where she was seen by Dr. Anil Nanda, the Chief of the Neurosurgery Department. Dr. Nanda's first examination of the plaintiff in July of 1992, revealed results withinOctober 18, 1993, which was admitted over objection at trial for the limited purpose of showing that Dr. Whitecloud intended to perform "a three level instrumented lumbar fusion" on November 18, 1993. The trial was held on November 2, 1993.
Prior to her visit with Dr. Whitecloud, the plaintiff was reexamined by Dr. Mayer. This occurred on September 22, 1993, at the request of the defendant. Before the examination, Dr. Mayer reviewed the MRI and myelogram administered in Shreveport, Louisiana, at the direction of Dr. Nanda. He concurred with Dr. Nanda's analysis that bulging existed at the L4-L5 and L5-S1 levels, but believed that these studies indicated a new injury to the lower back. After performing a physical examination of September 22, 1993, and based on his review of