Ok, in 13 days, Lori goes in for surgery. She’ll have a minimum of three, probably four, levels of her neck fused. This will create limited mobility for her forever but needs to be done. We don’t/won’t know if this will make her headache go away but as I said, with her crappy bones, needs to be fixed regardless. After this, it could be six months or it could be never that a slipped disc that all this hardware will be sitting on top of, could fail too. If so, it’ll mean more surgery. We’re praying the the root of her headache isn’t C1 which is at the base of her brain as that requires a neurosurgeon as Dr C doesn’t even operate that high. Lori just received a text from Dr. Evans telling her that he managed to get her in today for an epidural. Hopefully this will provide her some relief and numb her up taking away the constant pain. Not sure what that’ll cost us but that’s the least of my worries. So, that’s what we have going. This is a big big surgery being 3 or 4 levels and Don (Dr C) said she won’t be able to swallow well for sometime. Lori’s excited as she knows she’ll get all skinny not being able to eat solid food for a month or so! Ha
Now for the real reason we need help. We’re worried about Dixie. Lori is flying out Monday but she said she didn’t sound too good last night. She wants to call and wake her now but I told her to let her sleep. We’re praying her heart recovers from whatever it was that has caused the current problems. I made Lori take her pain pills last night so she feels all drugged this morning so I’ll drive her to work.
I made it down to Denver to drop the car at the body shop and picked up the rental and after stopping to have a quick chicken sandwich with my Mom, made it back up the hill. The boys are sleeping and it’s almost 7 so I need to get them up and moving. I haven’t even mentioned all going on at work, Lori’s or mine. That’s a whole different story, but we’ll tough our way through it. So time to cowboy and cowgirl up around here. We need to put our big boy pants on and tackle everything head on as that’s how you handle challenges. No point in running, hiding or ignoring them as that only makes them worse as they never go away on their own. Thankfully Lori has the ability to schedule herself within 2 weeks. She would have gone in earlier but it takes time for insurance authorization and stuff. She has moved a few patients off the schedule so she can go in around noon that day instead of 6 or 7 at night as it’s a 5 hour surgery. Anyhow, here we go. It’ll be fun! May God help, look out, protect and bless us all….Happy December and Merry Christmas!