It’s Thursday morning about 10 minutes to 6 and we just didn’t get to the post last night. Yesterday we were slammed all day with Lori at work and me all over the place. We met here at 3 in the afternoon and loaded up the boys and headed across town to her doctor. We made it home a bit after 6pm and had just enough time to get Mr. Ty changed into his basketball uniform and head to the game.
His game started at 6:45 and went until just before 8pm. He played great, had a bunch of steals and rebounds and a few break aways! Tonight his team is playing at half time of the Denver Nuggets basketball game! Each kid has to have a nickname for the announcer and Ty is the Ty the Terminator! Meanwhile Lori will be hosting a bunch of women from 4 until 7 tonight at her event at Dr. Rodgers office. She’ll be gone from noon until about 8 tonight. Last Jag will go down to Uncle Tommy’s until 6:30 and then get a ride to school where he’s babysitting (for money) for the PTA meeting. I think he and Mom will arrive home around the same time. Ty and I will probably be home a bit later.
Now to Lori and the doctor. First, I didn’t mean to infer that no one wants to know how she’s doing, we know you all care. Here’s two comments,
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Eleanor Tafoya says:
Bob and I would like to have it read , Eleanor & Grandpa Bob on the reply name, how do you change it ?
I don’t know how to change your names. i think it has to do with how you sign on or whose computer it is.
Ok, so to Lori. Looks like we (or she) will be going in for disc fusion surgery on November 26th at 11am which is the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. She asked for them to let her know if they have a cancellation before then as she’s anxious to get her headache over with. After talking with the doc we decided to just go in for the fusion and not go into the back of her neck at the same time. Apparently it’s quite a recovery and big deal to do both and she wouldn’t be able to raise her right arm until next March! Her EMG says her arm is not getting worse so he feels she can wait and see if we can get it calmed down through injections or other ways. Our first goal is to treat the headache. Now after the fusion surgery 15% of the people have a hard time swallowing for up to six months. If you lean your head back and try to swallow (try it) it’s pretty difficult. The fusion surgery straightens her neck and lifts it up a bit because the surgery is so high in her neck meaning in the C2 and C3 discs. In any case, she doesn’t care, she just wants her headache gone. We have all her tests and go see our doctor and friend in Vail on Monday for a second opinion just to play it safe. Our doctors know each other and I’m sure are on the same page. She’ll have to spend one night in the hospital so she’ll come home the Wednesday before turkey day. I don’t think we’ll be joining everyone at Uncle T’s for Thanksgiving. Lori is saying for the boys and I to go but I think I’ll just cook here to keep and eye on her.
The weekend after Thanksgiving we’ll go cut our tree as that’s when our permit is good for. Hopefully she’ll be fine by then.
So there you have it, 2 weeks and 5 days until she’s hopefully headache free. Sure it’s surgery but Lori’s excited. Now it’s all of your jobs to pray for her in the next few weeks as we have to get this done. It’s now 6:25, Jag just got out of the shower and Ty’s still sleeping.
One more thing, we were all talking in the car last night about something in Ty’s class and I said “I’ll just ask Ilsa” who is one of his classmates to which Ty replied “oh yea, a 56 year old asking a 9 year old, let’s see how that’ll play out”, too funny. I also came down this morning to find a note on the couch where I sit to plug in the computer which said “reserved for Ty Bennett Fugate”. He’s such a character.
Time to run as we have a busy morning, I have physical therapy and a hair cut, Jag has inter-murals (for sure!) and Lori has to go pick up flowers from the wholesaler for her event tonight.
God Bless.
Grandpa Bob and I do care about Lori’s condition, we would like to be updated often. I am sure the rest of the family feels the same way.