Friday May 26, 2018 time: 0025
Sydney had an appointment today at his therapist, a third party comes in and assesses him from a questionnaire they verbally ask him, the responses are then recorded to the computer. It determines whether he is in need of therapy or other services that the state can provide him. As we sat inside the thunder started rolling in and was a storm by the time we left the building. Sydney had gone next door for a short visit from a young granddaughter who had returned from Colorado for a visit, then he went to a friends down the road till 1730, came in and proclaimed he was hungry and attacked the homemade chili in the pressure cooker. He saved me a ladle full. At his appointment with Dr Baltz earlier this week he weighed in at 177#!!
This is a good video after a few minutes they start doing close-up work. this is only one level and the video is compressed to 20 minutes. Doc said it took him an hour and a half, my surgery was 3 1/2 hours.
Sydney came in and said my hump on my neck is getting smaller. Today I attacked popcorn with vigor, love my popcorn and a few days ago I thought I would never be able to eat it again. But swallowing liquids with several gulps in a row is still difficult. I asked him if he knew what the surgery was that I had done, he said no, so I found this one. Grant it that it is only one disc vs my two, but he got the idea. At the end he said it doesn't hurt, @%&($! LIES ALL LIES!!!! PEOPLE, IT HURTS!!
It's day 10 post-op and I have been weening myself off the hard collar to the soft collar as instructed and use the hard collar only when pain is bad, or as I like to say, "tired of holding my head up". I did get a call from physical therapy and start the pain brigaid on Wednesday of next week. Those guys are great and I doubt I will ever be in traction again. But it felt so good. The goal was to build neck muscles up to support my noggin and using the spinal protocol to protect and not further injure it. As this continues to heal the more I feel that "CATCH" on my left side and PRAY PRAY PRAY it goes away because it does hurt.
Now maybe my other Dr Lee will remove that growth on my jaw line. I'm just being anal about it because it might as well be on the tip of my nose or on my cleavage; all eyes go directly to it..
