The Day Of

Posted on 6:38 AM by Tweedle Beetle Tri-Athletle | 0 comments

In all honesty, I am really looking forward to the surgery... well maybe a better way of saying it is that I am tired of being in pain and ideally, the surgery is going to fix the worst of the pain and hopefully cause less than I have now. This last month has been bloody awful, plagued with sleepless nights, constant fatigue, constant nerve pain, paralysis in my triceps and numbness in my fingers.  I really feel for people who are struggling with cronic pain - without relief it really wears on a person.

My surgery today was bumped up from its original time of 6:00 PM to 3:30.  I need to be at the hospital for preparations by 1:30 and hopefully I will be out by 5:30 PM.  Most likely I will be discharged from the hospital the following day but I am planning on being a "slow" recovery so that I can be pampered for another day so :).

Dr. Keenen, a very experienced neurosurgeon (30 years) and Dr. Tatsumi (a neurosurgeon and an instructor for implantation of artificial disks and has done 100s of these) will be working on me for what should be 1.5 hrs or so.

During my recovery, my beautiful and wonderful wife will be keeping my blog up to date with my recovery status. 




Check back to see how everything goes!

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