That’s the question, will Lori have one or two surgeries? We found out today the only way to get her arm fixed and get her strength back is to have surgery. They need to go in through the back of her neck and open up the channels for the 5th and 6th nerve on the right side. First up though, we’ll go for a disc density, or something like that, procedure hopefully as early as tomorrow. Here they’ll go in with needles and once they’re in, will then inject some pain reliever and wait and see if the headache goes away. If it does, then they’ll stop, if not, they’ll do another procedure where they do a nerve block between the discs. This would mean about a six hour day for her. Now here’s the funny part, if the pain medicine works, then we know that she needs to have discs 2 and 3 fused. This means going in from the front. Are you with me so far? To sum it up, if the first procedure works Friday, we stop and schedule two surgeries, at the same time. If she has two procedures Friday we start with one surgery to relive the arm weakness and continue to try to fix the headache.
So if we can get in tomorrow, we’re in. If not, we’re hoping for Monday or Tuesday. A week from Monday we’re headed up to our other doctor at the Steadman Clinic in Vail. We’re going basically for a second opinion. Both her doctors are recognized as the best in their field and they know eachothe
Now to last night, Ty played great and his team won their first game. Meanwhile Jag stayed home with me and Jennifer and KayLynn, who both came home from school with him.
I managed to finish my work but still have lots to do. It seems I always have lots to do. I did manage to catch a little bit of lying by Kathleen Sebielus when she had to testify about health care. It’s inconceivable how these politicians just flat out lie with such a straight face. Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
Tonight we have lots of pumpkins to carve and the kids will be filling their bags with treats and sweets. Then it’s downhill to Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year. Throw in a few birthdays and it’ll fly by in no time.
Let us know what you’re dressing up as, we’re excited to hear. Take care and God Bless.
“The condition of our country today? It’s kind of like folks listening to the band playing while the Titanic is sinking, and them asking them to play a different tune.”