Originally published on: 11/1/2007 8:19:32 PM
In case you hadn't figured it out, there's a LOT going on here lately. After being in Iowa Tuesday for the funeral, my dad had neck surgery today to relieve the debilitating neck pain he's been living with for a long time. When combined with his Lyme's disease, the neck pain and joint pain often makes it nearly impossible for him to work.
So, today, I was at the hospital along with my mom for the day as they dug around on my dad's spine, inserting Kevlar between his vertebrae and putting him back together. It's amazing how they've evolved some of these procedures to cause the least amount of damage while doing really invasive things.
Everything appears to have gone well and he's now resting overnight at the hospital. He's reporting less pain *after* recent surgery than he's been living with every day of the last year. That's a good sign that things will get better as he heals from the surgery and possibly will be free at least from the pain in his neck.
I had a good chat with Mom as we waited in the waiting room and further good conversation when Dad came out of surgery and ended up in his room for the night. When they first asked if they could get him anything, all he wanted was a big bowl of cereal and for someone to get and fill his coffee mug: also good signs.
So, with him heading home tomorrow, I'm hoping to get caught up on work and get things back to normal and get past some of this extreme stuff.