Surgery is a go!

Yeah, happy soon to be fixed day to you

Thank you, Danny!  I'm so excited!

I can get fixed! I can get fixed!!!!

Well, since you are not a dog or cat, I take that is a good thing?

Sorry, when I read that, it just popped into my mind.  Like the time we had our cats fixed!

But congratulations and we will wish for the best.

Well, since you are not a dog or cat, I take that is a good thing?

Ha!  yes, this is a very, very good thing.  Very good.  In fact, it's so good that I'm ecstatically happy about it...because this will be an end to my pain, DG.  And even if it's not a total end to it, it's going to be a drastic reduction in the amount of pain I have daily now.  This means I can be medication free for the first time in years.  Yes, it's going to be rough to start with, but three months of discomfort versus a lifetime of nagging pain...I think that's a fair trade, don't you?

 

Congrats and good luck with it. I know you've been both looking forward to it and dreading it, which is only natural. I wish you the best.

YAY! What happy news!

I know you've been both looking forward to it and dreading it, which is only natural. I wish you the best.

Thank you, Mason. Whilst I'm still nervous about it, I'm more happy than anything else. The fear factor went down a load of notches when he said he'd do it from the front....for some reason that seems less painful to me. When you had yours done, did you have a bone growth stimulator? I have to have one of those too....of, and what's your best advice for the whole deal? What did you find to be the most important aspect of your recovery process? Janders: Yes, it is very, very happy news!

good news indeed, now calm yourself and concentrate some healing energy on yourself you are going to need it, when does D get home?

now calm yourself and concentrate some healing energy on yourself you are going to need it, when does D get home?

As soon as I have an exact surgery date we can bring him home.  He'll be home a couple of days before the operation, so probably about a month.

I'm calm, and I'm focusing on being as healthy as I can be.  I'm eating properly, I'm swimming again (despite the pain) and I'm taking a multi-vitamin with iron....don't want to be anaemic going into it. 

#9 by dharmagrl Wednesday, June 08, 2005

As soon as I have an exact surgery date we can bring him home. He'll be home a couple of days before the operation, so probably about a month.

this alone is very cool.

I'm calm, and I'm focusing on being as healthy as I can be. I'm eating properly, I'm swimming again (despite the pain) and I'm taking a multi-vitamin with iron....don't want to be anaemic going into it.

okey dokey just disregard the advice if yer already doing it. { the pain of being fatherly} cannot help myself it goes with being jewish {or any other people} you know.

okey dokey just disregard the advice if yer already doing it

Noo, I LIKE getting advice from you and you being fatherly!  Don't stop!

Thank you, Mason. Whilst I'm still nervous about it, I'm more happy than anything else. The fear factor went down a load of notches when he said he'd do it from the front....for some reason that seems less painful to me. When you had yours done, did you have a bone growth stimulator? I have to have one of those too....of, and what's your best advice for the whole deal? What did you find to be the most important aspect of your recovery process?

No, I didn't have any bone growth stimulator because I didn't have any grafts done. As far as the recovery, I found both with the back surgery and my current hip/pelvis injuries, getting up and moving around despite the pain helps a great deal to speed recovery and reduce the pain.

As far as the recovery, I found both with the back surgery and my current hip/pelvis injuries, getting up and moving around despite the pain helps a great deal to speed recovery and reduce the pain.

I had read that after the initial bone healing has happened you should try and 'stress' the graft...the more you stress it, the better, stronger fusion you get.

I know I don't pop in as much as I used to, but good luck.

Personally, I'm holding out for some cyborg parts. Mmmm, electronics...

best wishes and all my prayers go with you, along
with happiness on the man coming home to you!!! So happy you
you'll have a new back and D home too
No motherly advice left to give ya, I put it all on my kids,
do be good to yourself though! We'll miss you and look forward
to your return.

I know I don't pop in as much as I used to, but good luck. Personally, I'm holding out for some cyborg parts. Mmmm, electronics...

Hell no, you don't! You never come by to see me any more....makes me think you don't love me no more or somethin'....*sniff*....(I'm kidding!!)  How in the hell are you, anyway?

Actually, I'm getting some electronic parts - sort of, anyway.  I get a bone growth stimulator.  I'm not sure if it's internal or external...but either way, it's 'borg-esque.

You can start calling me 'three of eleven' now if you like...

 

Working, mostly. Nothing like a two-hour commute by public transportation each way to take time out of your day. Good thing they pay me well.

And that's awesome. They've got all sorts of neat things out, actually. Power suits, curing paralysis with stem cells. Interesting times we live in.