I've had to sit and think this over a bit before making this post cause I don't want to sound like a whiner.I'm going to have surgery on my neck on early Tuesday morning in Minneapolis, which is only five hours away, but the weather forecast sounds kind of yucky for between now and then so we're leaving today instead of tomorrow. The MRI shows severe Stenosis in C3&C4. The Doc wants to get this remedied now without delay because it's pretty well advanced and the spinal cord is being squeezed kinda tight. Now I know where the headaches have been coming from. Sounds like the surgery will be pretty simple, as neck surgeries go and everything will be done through the back of the neck so I'll be a little stiff and sore for awhile but nothing real bad. What overshadows all this is vivid memories of what happened 5 1/2 years ago when our daughter passed away because of a doctor mistake during a routine surgery. The memories of those horrible moments in that hospital are still vivid and probably always will be. Three little girls lost their mother and a husband had to fight with his grief while he was burdened with the load of raising these girls. I'm so afraid of my family going through this again. The doc said the chances of a problem are 5 percent so I have a 95 percent chance of coming home and telling you guys I came out OK, and I am looking forward to doing exactly that on Thursday. Well, I guess that's enough whining. Thanks for listening. I'll see you Thursday. Jim
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