October 6, 2010

• Please Pray

  The “twilight sleep” anesthesia didn’t work. 

  I felt just about everything they did (just stung a lot) and when they asked me to get into the wheelchair to go to recovery, I asked if I really needed the chair, because I was not impaired   Of course they made me get in it.

  We drove home, and I began to get drowsy (FINALLY!) when we were almost here.  I slept for several hours after arriving here.  A LITTLE LATE!

  The drug used for anesthesia has given me a horrible migraine (a side effect in less that 1% of patients – here we go again!) and the dose of steroid has also given me flu-like body aches.

  I’ve taken a migraine pill to alleviate the worst of the headache, but I just feel achy all over.

  Please pray for relief from these side effects. I would really appreciate prayers.

  Also, quick note for now, the first words the surgeon said was I was really very close to needing major surgery on my back.  The degeneration is “very bad to severe,” HIS words.  BUT, he also said my cancer recovery was AMAZING and none of what he was looking at was due to cancer damage.  So, YAY! for that piece of good news!

  He gave me a neck brace apparatus you blow up to gradually stretch your neck – a type of traction to be used for a short time daily, and I’m sure that will make me feel a ton better – WHEN I’m able to start using it.

  Be Blessed  ~

  CHERYLYN

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