This is day one post-operation! Want all of you to know that I have prayed, cried, begged for pain relief for 42 years and 10 months! Yesterday, my miracle slid into the operating room at our little hospital. You should first understand that I can recall all of the trying of different therapies and the fact that they seemed to be torture because they never improved the pain and often made it worse. I find it very hard to believe that this went on for so very long. I am 72 now, 73 in two months and we celebrate our 44th anniversary later this month! I can dance (I hope).
I feel a tremendous relief from this agonzing pain, the falling, the depression, the foot drop. When I woke up in the recovery room, DH was right there. He has been better, too! The doctor told him he removed all the bone spurs and other stuff that were pushing a vertebra into the spinal cord! He said he actually got to see the spinal cord moving back to where it belonged, all on its own. The neurosurgeon, the anesthesiologist, and the physician assistant visited me and I got to thank them!
DH seemed to come out of his grumpiness of the last few months. He was, I believe, suffering with me and felt very hopeless. The night before surgery, he made Chicken Cordon Bleu, rice and apple tarts! Last night, home from recovery, I just wanted a bowl of cereal. Tonight, it was marinated broiled salmon, with sweet potato puffs! (They look like potato puffs).
Most of all, I thank all of you for prayers, blessings, good wishes from this sisterhood and brotherhood of stitchers! All that
made such a difference in lowering my fears and brightening my recovery. You are such amazing people. My deep pain is gone!! All it has left is incisional pain. Now I think I understand what being "knifed" in the back might be like. Again, my gratitude for all you have done. My spirit is lifted and it is a new life I look forward to!