Last week was "busy" to say the least.. all good stuff, but whewy.. busy nonetheless. I intentionally scheduled a second week of vacation to relax and do things fun.. well, it's been more like "content to be a couch potato" for three days. So tomorrow I do hope to pick something of interest to do that is away from home.. other than pick up some needed groceries!
Yesterday (Tuesday) I had a pre-op dr appt with the hand surgeon and had to get some blood work done and that took a good portion of the morning. Friday morning 2nd surgery on his schedule with a quick snip in the palm of the hand of the two tendons released and a bandaging and home I will go from the surgery center. And the desired effect is that the trigger finger of the ring and middle finger will no longer curl in and will straighten up with no pain. The two cortisone shots over the last two years were effective for a short time, BUT THERE IS NO WAY I will ever do that again.. Holy cow that was ever so painful... The dr had said after the first one, "generally no one comes back for this a second time", but time constraints at the time it needed to be done the second time was in order to walk on crutches before surgery a year ago. Now time to fix it.
So my two week vacation will be extended by an extra week plus the holiday weekend to let the hand start healing and it will be bandaged till the post op middle of next week. I will be typing with just the right hand for awhile and since I'm left handed in writing, won't be doing much of that but can accomnplish some with the right hand legibly. It will be a sucky period of time for "hair" but a baseball cap might be my friend cuz I can't see that slowing me down completely.. I'll come up with an ingenious way to make the hair dryer work in my favor somehow..
Today (Wednesday) Greg and I met with the vascular surgeon that works with the Orthopedic surgeon who would repair my vertebrae with a fusing and the two disk replacement both in the same area (L4_L5 & L5_S1). The ortho does the spine stuff and the vascular makes the path from the abdonimal incision through all the "stuff" inside moving it out of the way basically so that the ortho can do his thing and than the vascular comes back and puts in all back into the right places and closes the incision.... so we heard the "scary" stuff and what his role of about a week of being involved total, and asked our questions of the procedure and his record, his history, his qualifications, etc. So we have and will be talking about what we heard, and will make the decision soon but we are pretty confident in what we have been told and seen. The back pain is excrutiating and having done physical therapy, injections with no substantial relief beyond a few weeks, out of options except to just medicate heavily.... Hence the reason the left hand needs to be working, so that I can use a walker for whatever amount of time that is needed. (short I hope)
So like I said one more day of doing something outside my couch potato existence of relaxing watching movies or basketball playoffs, uploading pics to various accounts and blogging. And than back to that kind of activity for a few days.
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